@Adam I don't fully understand this issue.

To clarify:

• 'the Gradle plugin for IDEA' refers to the plugin which you install into IDEA, which you can use to run Gradle builds from IDEA.
• 'the IDEA plugin' refers to the plugin which is distributed with Gradle, which you can use to generate the IDEA project files from the Gradle build file.

The use case is that I have the Gradle plugin for IDEA installed, and I use the IDEA plugin to generate the IDEA project file. I'd like this generated IDEA project file to contain all the configuration that the Gradle plugin for IDEA needs, so that I can run the Gradle build from IDEA, without having to configure anything manually. At the moment, this might mean including the Gradle home setting in the generated project file, or changing the Gradle plugin for IDEA so that it doesn't need this to be specified in the project file.

A workaround is to include the following block in your build.gradle:

ideaProject {
    withXml { provider ->
        def project = provider.node
        if (!project.component.find { it.@name == 'GradleSettings' }) {
            def component = new Node(project, "component", [name:"GradleSettings"])
            component.appendNode("option", [name:"SDK_HOME", value:'$GRADLE_DIR$'])
        }
    }
}

This assumes you have a path variable GRADLE_DIR defined in IDEA.