Marionette's CompositeView event not firing

Question

I'm having trouble using Marionette's CompositeView. I render my model in my CompositeView using a template and want to add a click event to it. Somehow I can't get the events to work using the events: { "click": "function" } handler on the CompositeView... What am I doing wrong?

var FactsMenuItem = Backbone.Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    template: tmpl['factsmenuitem'],

    initialize: function() {
        console.log('factsmenuitem');
    },

    onRender: function() {
        console.log('factsmenuitem');
    }

});

var FactsMenuView = Backbone.Marionette.CompositeView.extend({
    template: tmpl['factsmenu'],

    itemView: FactsMenuItem,

    itemViewContainer: ".subs",

    events: {
        'click': 'blaat'
    },

    blaat: function() {
        console.log('this is not working');
    },

    initialize: function() {
        this.model.get('pages').on('sync', function () {
            this.collection = this.model.get('pages');
            this.render();
        }, this);
    },

    onRender: function() {
        console.log('render factsmenu');
    }

});


var FactsLayout = Backbone.Marionette.Layout.extend({

    template: tmpl['facts'],

    regions: {
        pages: ".pages",
        filter: ".filter",
        data: ".data"
    },

    initialize: function(options) {
        this.currentPage = {};

        this.factsMenu = new FactsMenu();
        this.factsView = new FactsMenuView({model: this.factsMenu});
    },

    onRender: function() {
        this.pages.show(this.factsView);
    }

});

Edit: I removed some code that made the question unclear...

The problem lies that the events of the non-collectionview of the compositeview (the modelView??) are not fired. I think this has something to do with the way the FactsLayoutView instantiates the compositeview...

thomasjonas thomasjonas · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-28T10:02:01

The problem was caused by the way the region was rendered. In my FactsLayout is used this code:

initialize: function(options) {
    this.currentPage = {};

    this.factsMenu = new FactsMenu();
    this.factsView = new FactsMenuView({model: this.factsMenu});
},

onRender: function() {
    this.pages.show(this.factsView);
}

Apparently you can't show a view on a onRender function... I had to change the way the FactsLayout is initialized:

var layout = new FactsLayout({
    slug: slug
});
layout.render();

var factsMenu = new FactsMenu({ slug: slug });
var factsView = new FactsMenuView({model: factsMenu});

layout.pages.show(factsView);

Marionette's CompositeView event not firing

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