Extending View?

Hello! I'm trying to extend dashboard.php view with layout.php view. Layout.php is one level up compared to dashboard.php.

I tried

"../layout.php"
"Views/..path../layout.php"

but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?

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Edit...

I found out that this is working... "themes\default\layout". Any other solutions whit which I would avoid using the name of the theme (so in this case - theme with name "default")?