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In the transactional email code, I see this:

{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}
{{var items_html}}

Which, I believe, refers to this template file:

/app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/email/order/items.phtml

I've tried creating a new folder with our theme to avoid overwriting core files:

/app/design/our_theme/default/default/template/email/order/items.phtml

But this doesn't seem to work, is there a proper way to override this file without simply overwriting the core?

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Actually it refers to a Layout XML handle you can find in the sales.xml file around line 268.

There you can find the following tags

<sales_email_order_items>
    <block type="sales/order_email_items" name="items" template="email/order/items.phtml">
        <action method="addItemRender"><type>default</type><block>sales/order_email_items_order_default</block><template>email/order/items/order/default.phtml</template></action>
        <action method="addItemRender"><type>grouped</type><block>sales/order_email_items_order_grouped</block><template>email/order/items/order/default.phtml</template></action>
        <block type="sales/order_totals" name="order_totals" template="sales/order/totals.phtml">
            <action method="setLabelProperties"><value>colspan="3" align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
            <action method="setValueProperties"><value>align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
            <block type="tax/sales_order_tax" name="tax" template="tax/order/tax.phtml">
                <action method="setIsPlaneMode"><value>1</value></action>
            </block>
        </block>
    </block>
    <block type="core/text_list" name="additional.product.info" />
</sales_email_order_items>

You can copy this to your own themes local.xml and edit whatever you need. In your case it would be resetting the template file like so:-

<sales_email_order_items>
    <reference name="items">
        <action method="setTemplate">
            <template>yourdirectory/order/items.phtml</template>
        </action>
    </reference>
</sales_email_order_items>
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  • Oops, you are totally right. Thank you! Will accept when possible :)
    – waffl
    Sep 3, 2013 at 10:38
  • No problem, it can be somewhat confusing :)
    – Sander Mangel
    Sep 3, 2013 at 10:47
  • @SanderMangel How can I create {{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}} other than default, which I will be using in the email templates(Other than order confirmation email template)
    – Mukesh
    Feb 19, 2014 at 9:51
  • I'm not sure what you mean but you can call any handle from the local.xml from your email template. So you can create a new one if you want
    – Sander Mangel
    Feb 19, 2014 at 9:58
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You can see which template "sales_email_order_items" refers when looking into

app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/sales.xml
app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/bundle.xml
app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/downloadable.xml

In app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/sales.xml for example you will see:

<sales_email_order_items>
        <block type="sales/order_email_items" name="items" template="email/order/items.phtml">
            <action method="addItemRender"><type>default</type><block>sales/order_email_items_order_default</block><template>email/order/items/order/default.phtml</template></action>
            <action method="addItemRender"><type>grouped</type><block>sales/order_email_items_order_grouped</block><template>email/order/items/order/default.phtml</template></action>
            <block type="sales/order_totals" name="order_totals" template="sales/order/totals.phtml">
                <action method="setLabelProperties"><value>colspan="3" align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
                <action method="setValueProperties"><value>align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
                <block type="tax/sales_order_tax" name="tax" template="tax/order/tax.phtml">
                    <action method="setIsPlaneMode"><value>1</value></action>
                </block>
            </block>
        </block>
        <block type="core/text_list" name="additional.product.info" />
    </sales_email_order_items>

Here you can find out the path: template="email/order/items.phtml"

Your directory structure /app/design/our_theme/default/default/template/email/order/items.phtml seems wrong, especially the part /app/design/our_theme/default/default/template... - it should be /app/design/our_theme/default/template... (one default less, i guess).

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