Events not caught by Controller - sencha-touch-2

Question

I am trying to respond to a view-fired event inside a controller. The event does fire, but the controller action is never called.
View:
Ext.define("MyApp.view.Dashboard", {
extend: 'Ext.Container',
xtype: 'my_dashboard',
config: {
items: [
{
xtype: 'dataview',
listeners: {
itemtap: function(sender, index, elem, record) {
// fires with param, e.g. 'inbox'
this.fireEvent(record.get('name'));
}
}
}
...
Controller:
Ext.define('MyApp.controller.Dashboard', {
extend: 'Ext.app.Controller',
config: {
control: {
'my_dashboard': {
'inbox': 'showInbox',
...
}
}
},
showInbox: function () {
/* never gets called */
},
...
What am I doing wrong?
UPDATE:
I found a solution, but it feels very hacky. I added a bubbleEvents config to the dataview and the my_dashboard view, and the events started making their way up to the controller.
Since the dashboard can have a variable number of items, I don't know which events I need to bubble up. Of course, I could bubble up all possible dashboard events, but that just seems like a massive kludge.
Should the view fire an application event instead, e.g. MyApp.app.fireEvent()?

Answer 1

I would put an itemId on the dataview.
itemId: 'my_dashboard_dataview'
Then in your controller...
control: {
'#my_dashboard_dataview': {
'itemtap': 'showInbox',
...
}
}

Answer 2

UPDATE
Here is some code that should get you started:
Controller:
Ext.define('MyApp.controller.Dashboard', {
extend: 'Ext.app.Controller',
config: {
control: {
'my_dashboard': {
painted: 'onDashboardPainted',
inbox: 'showInbox'
}
}
},
onDashboardPainted: function(dashboard, eOpts) {
dashboard.down('dataview').on('itemtap', function(sender, index, elem, record){
dashboard.fireEvent(record.get('name'));
//check the console to make sure you the value is: inbox
console.log(record.get('name'));
});
},
showInbox: function () {
console.log('showInbox init');
},
This is definately a scope issue... in your controller add a painted function for my_dashboard... the first function variable will be the my_dashboard component itself:
painted: function(dashboard,...
Now in the painted function add the listener dynamically:
dashboard.down('dataview').on( ... rest of listener code ...
Now inside of the listener do dashboard.fireEvent(....);
Sorry for the formatting im on my mobile, if u cant get it to work i will post code tomorrow