Custom module with templates - override templatesAvailable

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Hi,

I am trying to create a custom module that uses templates, like the stock module or the currencies module.

The problem is, I can’t get my code to see the templates that are available.

If I look at the code and use “templatesAvailable()” it seems it will look into the modules folder and not in the custom folder.

Is there a way to overrule this, so it will look in /custom/myModule/myModule?

Thank you in advance!

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Hi there,

Actually there doesn’t appear to be a way to do that - you’d have to copy templatesAvailable() into your module and override it.

You could then change the folder it looks in to whatever is appropriate for your module.

Best wishes,
Dan

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for the update! I was allready looking in that direction, but was wondering if I overlooked something.

Going to give it a go tomorrow.

Jerry

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If you wanted to PR into the main project instead, I am sure we would accept a contribution which allowed someone to call a new method setTemplatePath() when the module was initialised - seems like sensible functionality. :smiley:

I made an issue for it anyway as it would be good for us to address it at some point:

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Hi Dan, that’s great!

For now I have included the function myself and that seems to work. (Only the preview thumnails not yet, but I’m looking into that.)

Thanks for the update.

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