question on split !include

[ktownsend-personal]

Does the split !include trick work for dashboards? I saw your example of it for automations, but can't seem to get it working for a yaml dashboard view to load cards from 2 places.

#from your autmoation integration yaml:
automation: !include ../automations.yaml
automation split: !include_dir_list ../automations

#what I want to do in my dashboard view, but it doesn't work:
cards: !include cards.yaml #file contains a list of includes to common cards I share between views
cards split: !include_dir_list ../cards/view1 #folder of cards for this dashboard

#alternative that I like better because 1 less file, but it doesn't work either:
cards:
  - !include ../../common/cards/test.yaml
  - !include ../../common/cards/test2.yaml
cards split:  !include_dir_list ../cards/view1

#also tried this, both with and without the hyphen on the 3rd item:
cards:
  - !include ../../common/cards/test.yaml
  - !include ../../common/cards/test2.yaml
  - !include_dir_list ../cards/view1

#This is viable, if I do a lot of individual stub files that each just !include the common cards.
#That's a lot of tiny files that feel unnecessary
cards: !include_dir_list ../cards/view1

#This is also viable, if I individually !include every card I want.
#It's not dynamic like the !include_dir_list, but it does give me better control of the card order.
cards:
  - !include ../../common/cards/test.yaml
  - !include ../../common/cards/test2.yaml
  - !include ../cards/view1/card1
  - !include ../cards/view1/card2

Related question: how do you control the card order when you use !include_dir_list? Are they alphabetical by file name?

[frenck]

Nope.