[GeoNode-users] Template extension over multiple apps

[Simone Dalmasso]

Stefano did you add all the apps in the installed app directive?
Ps in an ideal design it should be avoided to inherit from other app’s
template in favor of a common one at project level.

Best

Il giorno mar 14 nov 2017 alle 17:35 <Stefano.LUONI at ext.ec.europa.eu> ha
scritto:

> Hi George,
>
> thank you for your answer. I was following a tutorial and I didn't notice
> that there was already an empty site_base template under Geonode
> directories (geonode/geonode/templates/site_base.html). This file is
> visible by all custom apps, hence it works as a starting point to customize
> the look of the pages, as you poited out.
> My question was different, though: I'd like to extend template across
> apps, so if we go back to the example directory tree, let's say that I want
> to extend app1_base.html from app2_base.html.
> As far as I know, enabling both APP_DIRS or specific loaders from
> setting.py should do the job; the problem is that if I try to do that, I
> cannot extend templates from GeoNode directory anymore because they're not
> found.
>
> LOCAL_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
> TEMPLATES = [
>     {
>         'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
>         'DIRS': [os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, 'templates')],
>         'APP_DIRS': True,
>         'OPTIONS': {
>            'context_processors': [
>                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
>            ],
>         }
>    },
> ]
>
> If I edit the DIRS in TEMPLATE settings, explicitly adding the GeoNode
> template path (../../geonode/geonode/templates), I start getting other
> errors, like the following:
>
> *KeyError* : from geonode/geonode/templates/_announcements.html ( {%
> announcements as site_wide_announcements %} )
>
> Can you help me understanding what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* gkpetrak [gkpetrak at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 14 November 2017 15:49
> *To:* LUONI Stefano (JRC-ISPRA-EXT); geonode-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [GeoNode-users] Template extension over multiple apps
>
> Hello Stefano,
>
>
> You don't have to name site_base.html or index.html the base templates of
> your apps. You should name them in a way like: app1_base.html. So your
> directory tree will look like this:
>
> -virtual_environment
> -geonode
>     -geonode
>         -templates
>             -base.html
>             -index.html
> -custom_project
>     -app1
>         -templates
>             -app1_base.html (extends site_base.html which extends
> base.html)
>             -app1_index.html (if It's required)(extends site_index.html
> which extends index.html)
>     -app2
>         -templates
>             -app2_base.html (extends site_base.html which extends
> base.html)
>             -app2_index.html  (if It's required) (extends site_index.html
> which extends index.html)
>
>
> As GeoNode is composed of many apps see for example the directory
> structure of "layers" app
>
>
> site_base.html and index_base.html is the  base template of your GeoNode
> project in order to customize your site.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> George
>
>
>
> On 14/11/2017 02:48 μμ, Stefano.LUONI at ext.ec.europa.eu wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know that it sounds more of a Django related question, but as a non
> Django expert I'm a bit confused about the ways to extend templates.
>
> *The problem*
> In a development environment, suppose we have created a new app and
> suppose we call it *app1*; we can customise the page look by editing *site_base.html
> *for global parts, *index.html *or other specific templates, knowing that
> site_base will extend *base.html *from geonode/templates folder, and so
> on.
> What if we create another custom app and we call it *app2*: how can we
> define templates that could inherit from what was already defined by
> *app1*?
>
> The directory tree looks like this:
>
> -virtual_environment
> -geonode
>     -geonode
>         -templates
>             -base.html
>             -index.html
> -custom_project
>     -app1
>         -templates
>             -site_base.html (extends base.html)
>             -site_index.html (extends index.html)
>     -app2
>         -templates
>             -new_template => how to extend site_base.html?
>
> The issue I'm facing is that as soon as I enable context_processors in my
> settings.py, I get an error because the Geonode base.html template is not
> found (from extends base.html in geonode/base/templates/geonode_base.html).
> I tried using different configurations with loaders like app_namespace or
> apptemplates with no luck.
>
> Do you have any suggestions for solving this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
>
>
>
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