I think I would use the method I showed rather than links.
Anthony
On Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:54:11 AM UTC-4, curiouslearn wrote:
>
> 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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