Make the unbranded layout inside docs available for use in app/views

[adamsilver]

I have a page in app/views that would ideally use layout_unbranded.html which currently lives in docs.

The reason for this is to simulate the user receiving/viewing an email before accessing a service. I could recreate the layout for myself in app/views but for now I am referencing {% extends "govuk_template_unbranded.html" %} which looks like this:

I'd like some basic styling and the ability to turn off the skip link if that's possible.

[joelanman]

Hi Adam, have you tried extending from layout_unbranded as in the template here:

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit/blob/master/docs/views/templates/blank-unbranded.html

[adamsilver]

That's the thing—I can't seem to do that. When I do I get this:

Error: template not found: create-user-account.html
Template render error: (/Users/adambsilver/work/hmcts/pui-prototype/app/views/create-user-account/index.html) Error: template not found: layout_unbranded.html

[joelanman]

Sorry yeh this seems broken, and has been for a while :/ we'll look into it

[kr8n3r]

we can do this two ways:
a) move the unbranded layout into app/
b) point to that view in appViews variable in server.js so that it can be extended from the app/ folder file while still physically being in docs/ folder

I vote for a)