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[Peter Farmer <address@concealed>]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:15 am, Gavin Younger wrote:
> I'm currently looking at the 'message topics' feature of Sympa
> (currently using v 5.2) and am wondering whether it is is possible for a
> listowner  to be able to define message topics for individual
> subscribers (similar to the way a listowner can set a subscriber's
> reception mode by clicking their address on the review list)... It's
> possible for a subscriber to do this, but can't find a way for a
> listowner to set this on their behalf...
>

Gavin, 

The 5.2 code base doesnt support that functionality, but I have modified my 
installation to support it . Below are the basic changes you need to add.
Regards
Peter Farmer

You'll need to add the following code to the wwwsympa.fcgi program in the 
do_editsubscriber subroutine - just before the code for handling bounces is 
ok :

    #msg_topic
    $param->{'current_subscriber'}{'sub_user_topic'} = 0;
    foreach my $user_topic (split /,/
      $param->{'current_subscriber'{'topics'}) {
        $param->{'current_subscriber'}{'topic_checked'}{$user_topic} = 1;
        $param->{'current_subscriber'}{'sub_user_topic'}++;
    }
    if ($param->{'current_subscriber'}{'reception'} eq 'mail') {
            $param->{'current_subscriber'}{'possible_topic'} = 1;
    }

    if ($list->is_there_msg_topic()) {
        foreach my $top (@{$list->{'admin'}{'msg_topic'}}) {
            if (defined $top->{'name'}) {
                push (@{$param->{'available_topics'}},$top);
            }
        }
    }



You'll also need to add the following code  to the editsubscriber.tt2 
template (just after the the lines for the Visibility or Language inputs). 
This is a simplistic version - a bit unwieldy if you have a lot of topics, 
but obviously you could imprive the markup to handle this it better.

  [%IF available_topics %]
  <tr>
    <th><label for="topics">[%|loc%]Topic subscription 
:[%END%]</label></th>
    <td>         
      [%IF current_subscriber.possible_topic %]
         [% FOREACH t = available_topics %]
           [%IF current_subscriber.topic_checked.${t.name} %]
            <input type="checkbox" name="topic_[%t.name%]" value="1" 
checked="1"> [% t.title %] </input>
           [%ELSE%]
            <input type="checkbox" name="topic_[%t.name%]" value="1"> 
[% t.title %] </input>
           [%END%]
            <br />
         [% END %]
         [%IF current_subscriber.topic_checked.other %]
          <input type="checkbox" name="topic_other" value="1"  
checked="1"/> [%|loc%]Other (messages not tagged) [%END%]
         [%ELSE%]       
          <input type="checkbox" name="topic_other" value="1" /> 
[%|loc%]Other (messages not tagged) [%END%]
         [%END%]            <br />
            
         [%IF sub_user_topic %]
          <br />  
          <input type="checkbox" name="no_topic" value="1"> 
[%|loc%]Disable topics subscription[%END%]</input>
          <br />
         [%END%]
         
      [%ELSE%]
        <i>Not possible in current reception mode</i>
      [%END%]
    </td>
  </tr>