Please help with defining a !include

[steveuk23]

My Home Assistant version: 2021.11.5

Layout-card version 2.3.1

What I am doing: Trying to create a sidebar using This Method

What I expected to happen:

A sidebar should appear on my dashboard

What happened instead: I'm getting a error saying "/config/yamldash2.yaml", line 24, column 9: Unable to read file /lovelace/components/sidebar.yaml. I have added the sidebar.yaml file into the config/lovelace/components folder i have tried various folder locations and paths now but it's not picking up the sidebar.yaml file at all. Thanks

Minimal steps to reproduce: Use this code in a yaml dashboard

path: test
title: Test
cards:
  - type: custom:layout-card
    layout_type: custom:grid-layout
    layout:
      grid-template-columns: 20% 30px auto
      grid-template-rows: auto
      grid-template-areas: |
        "sidebar . main"
      mediaquery:
        "(max-width: 600px)":
          grid-template-columns: 100%
          grid-template-areas: |
            "sidebar"
            "main"
        "(max-width: 800px)":
          grid-template-columns: 50% 50%
          grid-template-areas: |
            "sidebar"
            "main"
    cards:
      - !include /lovelace/components/sidebar.yaml
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - light.bedroom
        title: Bedroom
        view_layout:
          grid-area: main

End of code

Error messages from the browser console:

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[tgallacher]

I don't believe that /lovelace is a special alias that HomeAssistant knows anything about. You should use the full path instead:

cards:
  - !include /config/lovelace/components/sidebar.yaml
  ...

[steveuk23]

I don't believe that /lovelace is a special alias that HomeAssistant knows anything about. You should use the full path instead:

cards:
  - !include /config/lovelace/components/sidebar.yaml
  ...

Thanks for the reply. I was just coming on here to edit this as I changed it to your suggestion and it picks it up fine now. The code above with the sidebar code is meant to show a "sidebar" in home assistant but it's not doing, but I've asked the original creator on that other page so hopefully he can advise. Unless you can see where I've gone wrong. Cheers

[tgallacher]

Had a quick glance at the linked thread. My question would be:

• How are you exposing this dashboard?

Do you have a ui-lovelace.yml card or a lovelace.dashboards entry inside your configuration.yml?

[steveuk23]

Had a quick glance at the linked thread. My question would be:

• How are you exposing this dashboard?

Do you have a ui-lovelace.yml card or a lovelace.dashboards entry inside your configuration.yml? Hi thanks for looking. I have it set up as "storage" in my configuration.yaml as with my understanding that meant I could keep my original UI dashboards but have this one as Yaml. This is what's in my configuration.yaml and it does appear in my ha side menu.

lovelace:
mode: storage
dashboards:
yaml-dash:
mode: yaml
title: yamldashnew
show_in_sidebar: true
filename: yamldash2.yaml

[thomasloven]

This is not a layout-card issue unless the exact same line works outside of layout-card.