'How can I use the output of a module that is located at outer level of the caller module?

I'm working with terraform for a while and I didn't face any issues as I always followed a simple structure. But now I've started working on another project that doesn't seem like it adheres to best practices.

The project structure is like this:

> root-folder
   > modules
      > cloudfront
      > route53
      > team1
         > service1
            - main.tf
            - variables.tf
            - locals.tf

And what I'm trying to do is, use modules.cloudfront.some_output_value within the modules>team1>service1>main.tf file as seen below:

module "record" {
  source      = "../../route53"
  zone_id     = var.route53_zone_id
  record_name = local.record_name
  cdn_id       = module.cloudfront.some_output_value   //the question is about this line
}

But I'm unable to use it, since the IDE indicates there is no such module as module.cloudfront.

Does anyone know why I cannot use a module that is defined at an outer scope?

Terraform version: 1.2.0 (probably this's not related to a version based issue, but anyway.)

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Solution 1:[1]

You can't query outer modules from inner modules. If you have any variables/outputs in your outermodules that should be used in the inner modules, you have to explicitly pass them from the outer into inner modules.

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