PyCharm can't find the right paths if I open a directory that is not the Django root

Question

Our projects are usually structured:

/project-name
  /src
    /django-project-name
      etc..
readme.md
requirements.txt

If I open /

Answer 1

I had an issue with PyCharm not finding the templates folder for an existing Django project. So I created a test project and saw that the template folder setting is only added when setting up the project (it should be in project-root/.idea/project-name.iml)

Copying the same setting and changing the folder to the correct one fixed the issue for me.

Answer 2

I fixed it by going to File -> Preferences -> Project Structure selecting the /django-project-name in the tree and clicking sources to add it.

Answer 3

Python requires an __init__.py file in each directory that is a module or part of the project, in pycharm you can add extra paths via preferences