Navigating Between Actions and Views

This feature is supported in the Ultimate edition only.

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 left 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:

Last modified: 29 November 2017

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