Jason Fayre wrote:

I am relatively new to Mailman. I am administering a server with around 200 lists on it. I am setting up Swish-e to provide searchable list archives. Each list has it's own search. In the search form, I need to be able to reference a cgi script. Each list has its own cgi script in the mailman cgi-bin folder. The names of the cgi scripts are the same as the folder containing the mailing list in mailman. I thought I could just use %(listname)s in my templates to reference this. Unfortunately, this is returning the friendly list name, not the name of the folder where the list resides. I can change my cgi script names if I need to, but I was wondering if there is a template tag I can use to insert the name of the list as it appears in the mailman lists directory. Also, is there a list of the mailman tags that can be used in these templates?

In general the code that uses any particular template has its own dictionary of substitution variables and with very few exceptions the only names in the dictionary are those that appear in that particular template.

Assuming you are modifying the archtoc.html and/or archtocnombox.html templates, you could edit Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py as follows:

Find the section

def html_TOC(self):
    mlist = self.maillist
    listname = mlist.internal_name()
    mbox = os.path.join(mlist.archive_dir()+'.mbox',

listname+'.mbox') d = {"listname": mlist.real_name, "listinfo": mlist.GetScriptURL('listinfo', absolute=1), "fullarch": '../%s.mbox/%s.mbox' % (listname, listname), "size": sizeof(mbox, mlist.preferred_language), 'meta': '', }

add the line

         "internalname": mlist.internal_name(),

to make it

def html_TOC(self):
    mlist = self.maillist
    listname = mlist.internal_name()
    mbox = os.path.join(mlist.archive_dir()+'.mbox',

listname+'.mbox') d = {"listname": mlist.real_name, "internalname": mlist.internal_name(), "listinfo": mlist.GetScriptURL('listinfo', absolute=1), "fullarch": '../%s.mbox/%s.mbox' % (listname, listname), "size": sizeof(mbox, mlist.preferred_language), 'meta': '', }

and restart Mailman. Then you could use %(internalname)s in the template to be replaced with the list's internal (all lower case) name.

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