Templates in folders

I’m just starting to implement RL alpha3 in my 2.0 project. I’ve created a folder in Views/ called Mailers to store all my templates. The plan was to organise these so I have

/Shared <- for _Layout
/Folder1/Template1.cshtml
/Folder2/Template1.cshtml

But I’m not sure how to do this with the engine/key structure. If /Views/Mailers is my root engine, I can’t pass a subfolder in a key to get my core template. If I create the engine in the subfolder, it can’t find the template.

Thanks

[dombarnes]

Sorry for being confusing. Hope this helps.

var webRoot = _env.ContentRootPath;
var engine = new EngineFactory().ForFileSystem(Path.Combine(webRoot, "Views", "Mailers", "Systems" ));
var message = engine.CompileRenderAsync("AdminWelcome", model, viewBag).Result;

So AdminWelcome is my template name, and its in the ContentRoot/Views/Mailers/Systems My Layout is ContentRoot/Views/Mailers/Shared/_Layout.cshtml though, because I use one template for all my emails.

If I’m setting the Systems folder as the engine path, I can’t access the Shared folder (because its a level above the root of the engine). If I set the Mailers folder as the root engine (the contents of which is in the screenshot), I’m not sure how to pass the folder and the template key (cshtml filename) to the engine to render. It doesn’t seem to like taking a path like “Systems/AdminWelcome” as the template key. What I want to be able to do is something like…

var engine = new EngineFactory().ForFileSystem(Path.Combine(webRoot, "Views", "Mailers"));
var message = engine.CompileRenderAsync("Systems/AdminWelcome", model, viewBag).Result;

and in my template be putting

@{ Layout = "/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"}

[toddams]

Templates are resolved taking as a start point - a root folder that you specify when you create an engine.

So root is your upper folder. Then when you resolve a template you specify the path for it: /Folder/Template1 and in @{ Layout = “/Shared/myLayout” }

Is that what you’ve been asking?