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Have you tried to put your view in APP/views/ directory?

As long as you put the namespace of the module at the top of the view, you can call views HMVC-like. I'm 99% sure that's how you do it. I'm on my iPhone just now, when I'm on my laptop I'll check and paste the code (I've achieved this several times in a project management app I'm building on fuel)

Here is my code: classes/base.php

class Base extends Controller_Template {

 public function before()
 {
  parent::before();
  
  //Initalize session
  //$session = Session::instance();

  Asset::css(array('main.css'), array(), 'css', false);
  Asset::js(array('jquery.min.js'), array(), 'js', false);
  
  $this->template->login_error = null;

  if (\Auth::check())
  {
   $user = Auth::instance()->get_user_id();
   $this->user_id = $user[1];

   $this->template->logged_in = true;
  }
  else
  {
   $this->template->logged_in = false;
  }
  
  //Widgets init
  \Fuel::add_module('ideology', true);
  \Fuel::add_module('publications', true);
 }

 public function action_404()
 {
  // Set a HTTP 404 output header
  Output::$status = 404;
  $this->template->title = '404. Page not found.';
  $this->template->content = View::factory('welcome/404');
 }
}

Part of: views/template.php

 ...
 <div id="sidebar">
  <?php echo @\Ideology\Controller_Ideology::widget(); ?>
  <?php echo @\Publications\Controller_Publications::widget(); ?>
 </div>
 ...

app/modules/publications/classes/controller/publications.php

namespace Publications;

class Controller_Publications extends \Base {
 public function before()
 {
  parent::before();
 }
 public function action_index()
  {
  $this->template->title = 'Publications';
  $this->template->content = \View::factory('publications_index');
 }
 public static function widget()
  {
   $data = array();
   return \View::factory('widget', $data);
 }
}

what about if you did something along the lines of the following:

// Views/template.php
<?php echo Request::factory('publications/widget')->execute()->output() ?>

// Then in publications/classes/controllers/publications.php
public function action_widget()
{
    $data = array();
    $this->response = $view->factory('widget', $data);
}

// I believe the stuffup is caused by something in the after() function of the controller
// and that's why it's getting the wrong view. especially because your'e putting a static
// function in a controller, which means it's not really part of that object but more a 
// virtual 'self'.
//
// try maybe making a file under publications/classes called publications (not under controllers).
// have the static function there, which returns the HMVC call (the Request::factory()->execute()->output();

tell me how that goes. it's a much better way of approaching it. as far as loading views explicitely from other modules, i might revert from my last couple of comments, not too sure you can do it. the parameter is just a location for the fine_file() function to find a view - no room for namespacing. i'll put something on github as a feature request, but i think that doing proper HMVC requests is the best approach to it (Request::factory()). the hierarchy of views is as such: say i have a module, publications. in a function i want to render the view 'someview'. it'll look for views in the module first, then the app directory, then the packages directory, then the core directory. it'll keep falling back if it can't find one (this comes out of kohana's cascading file system concept - great idea). but as far as namespacing goes, it's not really possible (with the current structure) to call a namespace when trying to find a file - as the namespace has more to do with the runtime than the file system. anyway - let me know how you go with the Request::factory() method. also, one more tip - rename base.php. move it under controllers/ and call it template.php. then all of your controlelrs have:

class Foo extends \Controller_Template

(make sure you've added your controller template to your bootstrap.php file, and in it add the following:

class Controller_Template extends Fuel\Core\Controller_Template
{
   public function before()
   { 
        // blah
   }
}

Thanks Ben, I will try to play with code which you suggested. I found reason why my code doesn't work as I expected: fuel/core/classses/view.php:

...
 public function set_filename($file)
 {
  if (($path = [b]\Fuel::find_file('views', $file))[/b] === false)
  {
   throw new \View_Exception('The requested view could not be found: '.\Fuel::clean_path($file));
  }

  // Store the file path locally
  $this->_file = $path;

  return $this;
 }
 ...

fuel/core/classses/fuel.php:

...
 public static function find_file($directory, $file, $ext = '.php', $multiple = false)
 {
  $path = $directory.DS.strtolower($file).$ext;

  [b]if (static::$path_cache !== null && array_key_exists($path, static::$path_cache))
  {
   return static::$path_cache[$path];
  }[/b]

  $paths = static::$_paths;
  // get the paths of the active request, and search them first
  if ($active = \Request::active())
  {
   $paths = array_merge($active->paths, $paths);
  }

  $found = $multiple ? array() : false;
  foreach ($paths as $dir)
  {
   $file_path = $dir.$path;
   if (is_file($file_path))
   {
    if ( ! $multiple)
    {
     $found = $file_path;
     break;
    }

    $found[] = $file_path;
   }
  }

  [b]static::$path_cache[$path] = $found;[/b]
  static::$paths_changed = true;

  return $found;
 }
 ...

I think issue in this line static::$path_cache[$path] = $found; it cached for 1st module and second module get cached view path.
Because when I debugged my 2 modules $path was 'views/widget' for module publications and module ideology. PS: views for modules located at app/modules/[module_name]/views/

Today bug was fixed:)
Big thanks to Harro Verton!