I am developing a custom theme and I am trying to use either the #include directive from velocity or the $theme.include method to include some code into the portal_normal.vm. I have placed the code I am trying to include in the _diffs/templates folder of the custom theme, but I cannot figure out what url to pass to the #include directive or to the $theme.include method.

Can someone enlighten me?

Here is the location of the code inside the custom theme source:

docroot/_diff/templates
portal_normal.vm
docbar-script.html

Here is the code I have tried:

#if ($is_signed_in)
#include("./dockbar-script.html")
#end

#if ($is_signed_in)
$theme.include("./dockbar-script.html")
#end

I found the answer for this here: http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/11582364

eg. #parse("$full_templates_path/velocity_file.vm")

Cheers

oops, you where including html.. but you have various velocity paths set in init.vm, hope that helps. At least in the _unstyled theme there is init.vm under templates.