[Mailman-Users] Re: Templates

[Richard Barrett]

At 08:59 02/07/2003, Timothy Arnold wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>
>I have edited most of the template files in template/en (for our English 
>mailing lists).

I hope you noted the words of the comment I quoted in my previous post "You 
should never modify files in the templates/<language> subdirectory, since 
Mailman will overwrite these when you upgrade.  That's what the 
templates/site language directories are for". Pity to lose all the good 
work on the next upgrade.

>They all work fine. I have even edited the header.html & footer.html for 
>ht://Dig (btw, is there any way to configure the mailman integration to 
>change the mailinglist.conf file to point header & footer to the lists 
>search directory instead of $COMMON?)
>
>The only pages left to edit are the listinfo page for the 'lists of 
>lists', the subscriber options page, and the admin interface. I cannot 
>figure out what template files these are generated by. I looked in 
>listinfo.py and could not find any reference to html code at all!
>
>An example: http://lists.becta.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mailman works fine, 
>all nice and branded

That looks good

>but if you go to http://lists.becta.org.uk/mailman/listinfo, it is not 
>branded. How do I make the lists of lists look like every other part of 
>the site?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Timothy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Barrett [mailto:r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk]
>Sent: 01 July 2003 19:01
>To: Timothy Arnold
>Cc: mailman-users at python.org
>Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Re: Templates
>
>
>At 18:27 01/07/2003, Timothy Arnold wrote:
> >That's what I thought... Anyone recommend a good python book? >:)
> >
> >I presume this is the same for the subscriber options? I am trying to
> >make
> >as much of the mailman interface that the end user (subscriber) sees 
> Becta >branded as possible.
>
>If you are using MM 2.1.2 then you will find a much of the html has been
>abstracted to the $prefix/templates directory language subdirectories and 
>their brethren.
>
>Although pages are being generated by MM scripts these now tend to 
>populate template files rather than generate HTML from scratch.
>
>You can set up/change these templates by language as follows (from the
>comments in $prefix/Mailman/Utils.py):
>
><quote>
>      # When looking for a template in a specific language, there are 4 places
>      # that are searched, in this order:
>      #
>      # 1. the list-specific language directory
>      #    lists/<listname>/<language>
>      #
>      # 2. the domain-specific language directory
>      #    templates/<list.host_name>/<language>
>      #
>      # 3. the site-wide language directory
>      #    templates/site/<language>
>      #
>      # 4. the global default language directory
>      #    templates/<language>
>      #
>      # The first match found stops the search.  In this way, you can 
> specialize
>      # templates at the desired level, or, if you use only the default
>      # templates, you don't need to change anything.  You should never modify
>      # files in the templates/<language> subdirectory, since Mailman will
>      # overwrite these when you upgrade.  That's what the templates/site
>      # language directories are for.
></quote>

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