Thank you, Anthony. That worked well.
Do you have an opinion on which is a better method (in terms of easier to
maintain, less problems that I cannot foresee given my lack of experience
building web apps): the links of using extend as suggested?
Thanks again.
On Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:30:33 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>
> {{extend ...}} takes a file path, not a URL, and it needs to be relative
> to the current application's /views folder. So you can use directory
> traversal to get to the other layout:
>
> {{extend '../../myadminapp/views/default/mylayout.html'}}
>
> The ../../ will go up two levels from /applications/current_app/views to
> /applications, and then the rest of the path follows from there.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:08:09 AM UTC-4, curiouslearn wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I searched on the forums here and it appears that the suggested solution
>> for accessing a layout file is to create links (hard links or soft links?).
>>
>> I have two questions in this regard:
>>
>> (i) Is this solution robust to changes in where the application is
>> hosted? Would the links works regardless of whether I have it hosted on
>> EC2, or dotcloud, or pythonanywhere etc.
>>
>> (ii) Is it possible to do this using the {{extend ...}} command? If so, I
>> would appreciate an example.
>>
>> For example, suppose I am in application called *participants *and I
>> want to use the layout file in application *myadminapp *(in *myadminapp* the
>> layout file is in views/default/). I tried doing the following, but none of
>> these work.
>>
>> {{extend URL(a='myadminapp', c=' ', f='views/default/mylayout.html')}}
>> results in /myadminapp/ /views/default/mylayout.html
>>
>> {{extend URL(a='myadminapp', f='views/default/mylayout.html')}} results
>> in /myadminapp/default/views/default/mylayout.html
>>
>> I also tried:
>> {{extend '/myadminapp/views/default/mylayout.html'}}, which gives the
>> following error:
>>
>> <type 'exceptions.IOError'>([Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/myadminapp/views/default/mylayout.html')
>>
>> This *error is strange* because there does exist an application *myadminapp,
>> *with folder views with folder default with file mylayout.html.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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