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How to use template from project in another app?

I'm thinking in organizing all my templates in inside my project: scolarte.
As suggested by this question:
What is the best location to put templates in django project?
If you can’t think of an obvious place to put your templates, we
recommend creating a templates directory within your Django project
(i.e., within the mysite directory you created in Chapter 2, if you’ve
been following along with our examples).
But I need to call it from another app. The view is called but getting error:
TemplateDoesNotExist at /cuentas/ingreso/
scolarte/templates/scolarte/registration/signup.html
I even tried to put the full path to the template in project folder:
roles/views.py:
class SignUpView(TemplateView):
template_name = 'scolarte/templates/scolarte/registration/signup.html'
# don't work neither
#template_name = 'templates/scolarte/registration/signup.html'
#template_name = 'scolarte/registration/signup.html'
#template_name = 'registration/signup.html'
roles/urls.py:
from django.urls import include, path
from .views import SignUpView, SellerSignUpView, ClientSignUpView
urlpatterns = [
path('ingreso/', SignUpView.as_view(), name='signup'),
]
scolarte/urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path('', include('core.urls')),
path('cuentas/', include('roles.urls')),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
My app is orgnized like this:
roles
|_migrations
|_templates
...
|_urls.py
|_views.py
scolarte #project name
|_templates
|_scolarte
|_registration
|_signup.html
|_setting.py
|_urls.py
setting.py
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
UPDATE 1:
roles app:
** roles app - view.py **:
UPDATE 2:

Your path to the template is incorrect by standard Django convention, but let me show you first how to fix it. What you'll want to do is make sure in settings.py you have these settings made. This is from a Django 3.0 fresh project creation.
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
,
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
If you use those, and follow the suggested directory structure of:
scolarte
|_scolarte
|_settings.py
|_urls.py
(etc..)
|_templates
|_scolarte
|_registration
|_signup.html
Then you can use with this path:
template_name = 'scolarte/registration/signup.html'

Django TemplateDoesNotExist problem while DIR is correctly set

I was running this Django project perfectly previously using Python3.7.2 and Django 2.1.5, recently I installed Anaconda3 and changed the interpreter to the Python3.7.1 in it. After reinstalling Django, when I ran the project the TemplateDoesNotExist exception showed up. My OS is Windows 10.
My DIRS is set as below:
TDIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'Templates/').replace('\\', '/')
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [TDIR],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
This note is on the error page:
Template-loader postmortem
Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
Using engine django:
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\welcomePage.html (Source does not exist)
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\templates\welcomePage.html (Source does not exist)
It seems that Django search the Anaconda path for templates instead of the customized path, but I can see on the error page that it was correctly set. This is what the error page shows:
TEMPLATES
[{'APP_DIRS': True,
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': ['D:/IgnorazWork/SUDoc/SUDoc/Templates/'],
'OPTIONS': {'context_processors': ['django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages']}}]
And'D:/IgnorazWork/SUDoc/SUDoc/Templates/'is exactly where I put the templates. How does this happen?
Thanks!

Try this :
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR + '/templates/',],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles")
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
]
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
Note - Make sure that your folder name are exactly same Template\ and template\ are different

Django - templatedoesnotexist

I'm creating a project named "crepes_bretonnes". In this project, I have an application blog. I created a template date.html. Here is the structure of my folders :
crepes_bretonnes/
blog/
__init__.py
admin.py
migrations/
__init__.py
models.py
templates/
blog/
addition.html
date.html
tests.py
views.py
crepes_bretonnes/
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
templates/
db.sqlite3
manage.py
When I try to see the page, I have a message templateDoesNotExist. I have read a lot about it on the web but I have not succeed in resolving my problem. In fact, I don't understand why Django does not search in my template folder of the app blog although I wrote "blog" in INSTALLED_APP in setting.py. Obviously, I have put TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),) in setting.py. I also tried to change the dictionary TEMPLATES. However, if I have understood well, it has no link as here Django should find my template even without this.
I don't have any solution.
Thank you for your help.
PS: If I put date.html in the general template folder and I arrange some lines, it works. However that is not a solution, I would like to respect a good structure.
UPDATE:
Thank you for your answer. Yes it really says INSTALLED_APPS in my setting and APP_DIRS is already True.
Here is my TEMPLATES in setting.py:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
UPDATE:
The debug message shows that Django search in django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: /Users/benjamin/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/blog/date.html.
However I have not written anything in these folder ... I'm working in Documents. Why does Django search here and not in Documents ?

I solved it by adding forward slash "/" after 'templates':
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates/'],

I had the same problem saying template does not exist and I solved it by changing the URL pattern in my views.py where previously I had mentioned just date.html, later I edited with blog/date.html. Hope it might help you.

I assume 'INSTALLED_APP' is a typo and it really says 'INSTALLED_APPS' in your settings. Anyway, you need to set APP_DIRS = True for templates to be found in app/templates
folders:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
],
'APP_DIRS': True, # this line is important
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages'
# ...
]
},
},
]

me having the same issue,
added the app to the INSTALLED_APPS
done, because you (and me) were using the templates not in the main app so it must be registered in the settings (like referring to the urls of the app from the main urls file)

Go to your setting.py and try something like:
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")
For example:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]

For me, it was using rest_framework without adding it to INSTALLED_APPS.

How do I properly structure Templates and include them in the settings in Django 1.8.6?

So, here is my current structure:
django_project/
home_app/
__init__.py
migrations/
templates/
home_app/
base.html
admin.py
models.py
views.py
project_backend/
__init__.py
settings.py
url.py
wsgi.py
Now in home_app/views.py I have this very simple piece of code:
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
class HomeView(TemplateView):
template_name = "home/base.html"
and in the settings.py I set up my templates like this:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'home_app', 'templates'),
# os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'app_name', 'templates'),
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
This works fine, and I am quite happy using the app/templates/app/some_temp.html approach, but this only works when I include the OS.path.joins for all the apps and templates, as far as I can see. Is there a way to register this structure in the settings by default and I am just overlooking it?
This is just no very pretty and I feel like it would be bad practice to write that down for every single app.:
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'home_app', 'templates')

You have 'APP_DIRS': True, so you shouldn't have to edit DIRS to use templates in the home_app/templates/ directory, as long as home_app is in your installed apps.
If you have a template,
home_app/templates/home_app/base.html
then you should use it with:
template_name = "home_app/base.html"
You currently have,
template_name = "home/base.html"
which isn't consistent.

Django 1.8 TEMPLATE_DIRS being ignored

This is driving me crazy. I've done something weird and it appears that my TEMPLATE_DIRS entries are being ignored. I have only one settings.py file, located in the project directory, and it contains:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'web_app/views/'),
)
I'm putting project-level templates in the /templates folder, and then have folders for different view categories in my app folder (e.g. authentication views, account views, etc.).
For example, my main index page view is in web_app/views/main/views_main.py and looks like
from web_app.views.view_classes import AuthenticatedView, AppView
class Index(AppView):
template_name = "main/templates/index.html"
where an AppView is just an extension of TemplateView. Here's my problem: when I try to visit the page, I get a TemplateDoesNotExist exception and the part that's really confusing me is the Template-Loader Postmortem:
Template-loader postmortem
Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader:
Using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader:
C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\main\templates\index.html (File does not exist)
C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\templates\main\templates\index.html (File does not exist)
Why in the world are the 'templates' and 'web_app/views' directories not being searched? I've checked Settings via the debugger and a breakpoint in views_main.py and it looks like they're in there. Has anyone had a similar problem? Thanks.

What version of Django are you using? TEMPLATE_DIRSis deprecated since 1.8
Deprecated since version 1.8:
Set the DIRS option of a DjangoTemplates backend instead.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#template-dirs
So try this instead:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
# insert your TEMPLATE_DIRS here
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
# Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
# list if you haven't customized them:
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
'django.template.context_processors.media',
'django.template.context_processors.static',
'django.template.context_processors.tz',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
Here's a link to an upgrade guide: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/templates/upgrading/