id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 7424 Near mentions of TEMPLATE_DIRS absolute path, include tip dynamic absolute path Jeff Kowalczyk nobody "Most documentation of settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS instructs the user to use absolute paths, in the form of a hardcoded string literal absolute path. A new user would immediately wonder if they needed to plan their deployment absolute path right then and there. To avoid this surprise, it would be helpful to note that the absolute path can be created dynamically, such as with: {{{ TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'templates'),) }}}" closed Documentation dev wontfix path template absolute Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0