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Here's how we solved this problem: [http://blog.aptivate.org/2011/11/15/embedding-jinja2-templates-in-django-templates/]

I'm not sure what I've done here (maybe messed up my configuration) but I'm seeing this error:

Exception Type: UndefinedError at /forum/questions/
Exception Value: '_' is undefined

Full trace at http://dpaste.com/561250/

askbot 0.7.3

Does this ring any bells?

Edit:
USE_I18N = True
Settings are at http://dpaste.com/561263/

Also the other pages work fine eg tags, people, badges and I can see the French translation. It's just the questions page that shows this problem.

Edit: Replacing _() with gettext() in tab_bar.html fixes the problem. Using jinja2 2.5.5.

Thanks. I think we're going to hit another problem because we're not using jinja2 for our templates so it might be that we'll end up having to replicate modified versions of our templates in our custom skin directory after all. Either that or fix our templates to be compatible with jinja2 but that will be a lot of work.

Hi Evgeny. Thanks for your answer. We are using ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR and have put the custom skin in there. But we want our skin to be based on templates that exist elsewhere in our application and don't want to have to place copies of them in our custom skins directory.

Hi

We've created a custom skin and we're trying to base our skin on templates used elsewhere on our website ie those present in TEMPLATE_DIRS. Is this a bad idea?

It looks like askbot is only looking in the skins directory for templates as it can't find templates in our application. Looking at the SkinEnvironment class in skins/loaders.py, _get_loaders() creates file system loaders for the custom skin directory. We can modify this to append TEMPLATE_DIRS to the loaders and it seems to work. Is there a better way to do what we want? I guess we could use symbolic links from the skin directory to the application templates directory but that seems a bit of a hack.

I suppose ultimately we're looking to embed askbot so that it looks like any of the other pages on our website so tell us if we're going about this the wrong way.