---
title: Dynamic Placeholders Not Displaying Allowed Renderings
slug: '2824'
canonical_url: https://docs.coveo.com/en/2824/
collection: coveo-for-sitecore-v5
source_format: adoc
---
# Dynamic Placeholders Not Displaying Allowed Renderings

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Sitecore SXA 1.8


## Symptoms

You have a Coveo-powered search page in a non-SXA site, on a Sitecore instance with SXA installed on top.
While editing that Coveo-powered search page in the traditional **Experience Editor**, you click a Coveo dynamic placeholder **Add here** button expecting to see the list of Coveo allowed controls for that placeholder in the **Select a Rendering** dialog.

![The Sitecore Select a Rendering window showing allowed controls | Coveo](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/c4sc-v5/correct-select-a-rendering-dialog.png)

Instead, the **Select a Rendering** dialog doesn't display the expected renderings, but rather a simple Sitecore Treelist.

![The Sitecore Select a Rendering window showing a tree list | Coveo](https://docs.coveo.com/en/assets/images/c4sc-v5/empty-select-a-rendering-dialog.png)

## Cause

SXA moved most of its configuration files into a new `<SITECORE_INSTANCE_ROOT>\App_Config\Modules\SXA` folder in SXA 1.8, therefore adding a new layer in the `layer.config` file.

Before SXA 1.8, the SXA `Sitecore.XA.Foundation.PlaceholderSettings.config` file was being processed _after_ a Coveo configuration file.
Now, if Coveo is installed after SXA, `Sitecore.XA.Foundation.PlaceholderSettings.config` is being processed _ahead_ of the Coveo configuration file.
As a result, a `patch:before` in the Coveo configuration file now fails.

## Resolution

The solution is to change the load order in the `Modules` layer such that the Coveo configuration file is processed ahead of the SXA `Sitecore.XA.Foundation.PlaceholderSettings.config` file.

. Open the `<SITECORE_INSTANCE_ROOT>\App_Config\layers.config` file in a text editor.

. Near the very bottom of the file, locate the `<layer name="Modules"` element.

```xml
<layer name="Modules" includeFolder="/App_Config/Modules/">
  <loadOrder>
    <add path="SXA" type="Folder" />
    <add path="Coveo" type="Folder" />
  </loadOrder>
</layer>
```

. Invert the `<add path="SXA" type="Folder" />` and `<add path="Coveo" type="Folder" />` elements.

```xml
<layer name="Modules" includeFolder="/App_Config/Modules/">
  <loadOrder>
    <add path="Coveo" type="Folder" />
    <add path="SXA" type="Folder" />
  </loadOrder>
</layer>
```

. Save your changes.