many to many relationship cfwheels inner join - coldfusion

i have a couple of problems with cfwheels (n:m relationsship)
here my database schema
rights righthaspath path
-id -------| -id --> -id
-role -->-rightid (FK) | -url
-pathid (FK)------|
my models
/Models/Right.cfc
<cffunction name="init">
<cfset hasMany(name="righthaspath",shortcut="path")>
<cfset nestedProperties(associations="righthaspath")>
</cffunction>
/Models/Path.cfc
<cffunction name="init">
<cfset hasMany(name="righthaspath")>
</cffunction>
/Models/Righthaspath.cfc
<cffunction name="init">
<cfset belongsTo("path")>
<cfset belongsTo("right")>
</cffunction>
in my Controller
<cfset tmp= model("right").findall(include="righthaspath")>
so, the sql statement from cfhweels is:
SELECT rights.id,rights.Role,righthaspaths.id AS righthaspathid,righthaspaths.pathID,righthaspaths.rightID FROM rights
LEFT OUTER JOIN righthaspaths ON rights.id = righthaspaths.rightID
but i want a sql statement over the three tables like this
SELECT
*
FROM
rights
INNER JOIN righthaspaths on rights.id=righthaspaths.rightID
INNER JOIN paths on righthaspaths.pathID=paths.id
can u help?
PS: i cant include path e.g.
<cfset tmp= model("right").findall(include="righthaspath,path")>
because i got an error
An association named path could not be found on the right model.

On behalf of Hans Maeier above, I'll post his answer so it can be marked as answered and aid the CFWheels community on stackoverflow.
include="righthaspath(path)" will work done
Hope that helps anyone searching for this.
Thanks,
Michael.

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<cfcomponent>
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start = ""
scope="SUBTREE"
maxrows="1"
server = ""
username=""
password=""
separator=";" />
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cfinvokeargument
name="EmployeeID"
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My result is a blank page, I don't even get the h3 text. As mentioned, all this works fine in .cfm pages, but it craps the bed when I try to put it in a .cfc. As with all documentation on this, there's so many different ways to do this, but nothing I've tried works so I was hoping I could get a push in the right direction.
Your cfinvoke is missing a returnVariable
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<cfinvokeargument name="EmployeeID" value="#form.txtEmployeeID#">
</cfinvoke>
<h3>Confirm Employee Entered</h3>
<cfoutput>#EmployeeAdd.displayName#</cfoutput>
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<cfinvoke component="queries" method="EmployeeQuery" returnVariable="EmployeeAdd">
<cfinvokeargument name="EmployeeID" value="#form.txtEmployeeID#">
</cfinvoke>
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Well, I have been experiencing same error as discussed here:
Coldfusion 10 File Not Found Error
I am using Coldfusion 11 , developer edition on my Laptop , Windows 8.1 Pro (OS).
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2) Setup onMissingTemplate function in Application.cfc
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------------
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</cffunction>
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...
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I have yet to be able to successfully post code here, so here is a link to a text version of the index.cfm.
Edit:
The code below should be the relevant sections related to URL.openFile
<cfif isdefined("URL.openFile")>
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FROM Help_FooterInfo
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.
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