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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Chris,

address@concealed wrote:

> Sympa is running at my university. 
> I am not the person who installed it and who is administering it and it´s extremely hard to get a hold of this person. Nevertheless I would like to do a research on how to optimize the look & feel of www-Sympa for my purposes. For example I would like to modify the
> appearance of the visual frame that appears when you are logged in over www, 
> which I believe consists of the templates 'title.tpl',
> 'list_menu.tpl' and 'menu.tpl'. First question: am I right with that 
> assumption?
When the user is logged in WWSympa, his email+role appear of the top 
header and the menu changes (login desappear, logout appears,...).The 
menu is defined in menu.xx.tpl, the email+role is defined in the 
title.xx.tpl.

> Second: are these templates being included in another file, so that modifying 
> this one file would do the job? Or do I have to modify all three templates?
The main.xx.tpl includes these templates but their location is defined 
in wwsympa.fcgi at runtime ; looking for the more appopriate templates. 
For example you can do the following :
   * /home/sympa/bin/etc/wws-templates/                            are 
unchanged
   * /home/sympa/etc/wws_templates/menu.tpl                    used for 
all Virtual robots
   * /home/sympa/etc/wws_templates/my.robot/menu.de.tpl               
used by a single robot and only for German users
   * /home/sympa/expl/my.robot/wws_templates/menu.de.tpl     can eaven 
be overwritten for a list

But that's Sympa's generic defaults mecanism, also used for mail 
templates and scenarios.

> Is it possible to change color, etc. of what I call the 'frame' at all? I 
> have read faqs and documentations and everything, but I don´t really find the 
> answer.
Colors can be changed in sympa.conf and robot.conf files :
http://www.sympa.org/doc/sympa/node6.html#SECTION00617000000000000000

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites