Couldn't you just create a dummy file in /channel_a for part2.html, and in /channel_b for part1.html, such that the dummy files do nothing but include the content of the corresponding parent?
On Jul 17, 2008, at 8:04 AM, 3xM wrote: > > > > On Jul 17, 1:59 pm, Arien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Have you seen the section on loading templates in the documentation? >> It contains a tip that describes how you can use select_template to >> nicely deal with this type of situation > > Thanks for the fast reply. > > I Don't see how this would help me. I still want to rely on the > fallback features of the template loading from directories in > TEMPLATE_DIRS, as I don't want to copy templates for all parts of the > playlist for each channel that differs a bit, but only those parts > being different. > > I already tried loading templates a la > > '%s/name_of_template.html' % channel_template_folder > > but the result is that it when the template includes other templates, > it will look for it in the same folder, not doing the fallback thing > to the main generic template folder (as it is looking for something in > a subfolder with the name of the value of channel_template_folder). > > Does it make sense? > > I'll try to illustrate the current template structure to clarify: > > .../templates > part_1.html > part_2.html > /channel_a > part_1.html > /channel_b > part_2.html > > (I hope the identation in the above doesn't get ignored as whitespace) > > So, normally I load e.g. 'part_1.html' which, somewhere in it, > includes 'part_2.html'. That works just fine. > > But for Channel A I used to load 'channel_a/part_1.html', which will > also include 'part_2.html'. But now the template system will look for > a file called 'channel_a/part_2.html' which doesn't exist. And for > Channel B, where I only want 'part_2.html' to be different from the > generic, I can't get it to work without adding 'templates/channel_b' > to TEMPLATE_DIRS. A "solution" is to copy all templates each time I > want to make differences, but that seems quite stupid to me. > > So what I want is to temporarily add 'templates/channel_b' to > TEMPLATE_DIRS for requests for playlists from Channel B. Is it somehow > possible? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
