How to retrieve View outside the controller - Openui5

Question

If I use this.getView() inside the controller of a view I can retrieve it without problems. How can I retrieve the view if I am outside the controller (e. g. in

Answer 1

You can instantiate another view using:

var view = sap.ui.jsview("");

If you´re using different view types you can choose the necessary function from here.

To avoid multiple instantiation you could do something like this:

var view = sap.ui.getCore().byId("id");

if (view === undefined) {
    view = sap.ui.jsview("id", "");
}

See this for more details regarding view definition/instantiation and IDs.