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Current behavior is not intentional, no. The idea is that you can render an Entity Model with another View than what the Entity Model's MVC data says (for whatever reason). This was intended to be a temporary override, though.

Can you further clarify why you want to render the same Entity Model with multiple different (hard-coded) Views, though?

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The HTML must look the same as the old site and there is two entities within the same div-tag. This to be able to reuse the CSS. The way I do it now is by simply using @Html.Partial(), so the code looks something like this now:

@model RegionModel
@{ 
    var header = Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Header");
}
<div class="header">
  <div class="menu">
    <div class="menu-content">
      @Html.DxaEntity(Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Navigation"))
    </div>
    @Html.Partial("_Utility", header)
  </div>
  @Html.Partial("_Logo", header)
</div>

If there is a better way doing it I'm all ears!

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Interesting! It looks like you need nested Regions. :-)
However, since you're already finding the "Header" Entity by its (original) View name first, would you actually suffer from the quirk/bug that it affects the MVC data of the Entity? That is: will above Region View not work properly if you use @Html.DxaEntity with View override instead of @Html.Partial ?
Or are you also rendering the entity with its original View somewhere else?

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I tried that but no, since it is just referencing to the entity it wont help. So the following code wont work:

@model RegionModel
@{
    var header = Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Header");
}
<div class="header">
    <div class="menu">
        <div class="menu-content">
            @Html.DxaEntity(Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Navigation"))
        </div>
        @Html.DxaEntity(header, "_Utility") @* This changes the MvcData.ViewName *@
    </div>
    @Html.DxaEntity(header, "_Logo") @* Argument Null Exception *@
</div>

This code will work though:

@model RegionModel
<div class="header">
    <div class="menu">
        <div class="menu-content">
            @Html.DxaEntity(Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Navigation"))
        </div>
        @Html.DxaEntity(Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "Header"), "_Utility")
    </div>
    @Html.DxaEntity(Model.Entities.Single(m => m.MvcData.ViewName == "_Utility"), "_Logo")
</div>

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TSI-1767 (internal issue ID for tracking purposes)

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Fixed in DXA 1.6.

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