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Navigate between actions and views

Last modified: 01 August 2022

IntelliJ IDEA suggests convenient means of navigation within Grails applications. The following cases are possible:

Between a controller action and a view with the same name.
From redirect and render methods to the corresponding controllers and actions.

To navigate between an action and the corresponding view

In a controller, with the caret within an action: Click the icon in the gutter:
The corresponding <name>.gsp file opens in the editor.
In a view file <name>.gsp: click the Controller button on the scaffolding toolbar:
The corresponding controller opens in the editor, with the caret resting before the action name.

To navigate from Grails render or redirect methods, do one of the following

With the caret at the template name, press Ctrl+B
Keeping Ctrl pressed, click the template name:

See also

Language and Framework-Specific Guidelines

Scaffolding

Create Grails views and actions Run Grails targets

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