overriding-layouts.md

Overriding Layouts

Ok, now that we have started to get funky, let's keep going. How can I change the layout on the fly for a specific view? Very easily, using yet another new method from the event object, called setLayout() or the layout argument to the setView() method.

event.setLayout( name );
event.setView( view="", layout=name );

This is great, so we can change the way views are rendered on the fly programmatically. We can switch the content to a PDF in an instant. So let's do that

function home(event,rc,prc){

    if( event.valueExists('print') ){
        event.setLayout('layout.PDF');
    }

    // logic here

    // set view
    event.setView('general/home');

}