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[Alban Rodriguez <address@concealed>]

Hello,

May I suggest you have a look at automatic lists and lists families ? 

To be clear, we’re not using these features here but I think (from reading the manual) one of them allows/enforces a naming scheme for your lists.

This way, you wouldn’t have to hack into Sympa’s source code.

Sorry I can’t provide some more precise hints though.

Have a nice day 

Alban 

Le 16 nov. 2022 à 22:25, Silvers, Tim <address@concealed> a écrit :

So, is there no one doing this? Do the developers have any suggestions? I would rather not start modifying the Sympa code to hack this in and then have to monitor and fix it as upgrades clobber my changes.

 

Thanks,

 

Tim 

 

From: address@concealed <address@concealed> on behalf of Silvers, Tim <address@concealed>
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 1:58 PM
To: address@concealed <address@concealed>
Subject: [External] [en@sympa] Evaluating input in form fields

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Hi. Has anyone customized Sympa to perform any form field input validations? In our case, we would like to ensure that any created lists include a “-L” (i.e., dash el) in their names. The code is in create_list_request.tt2 and I have been reviewing the template directives [1] in an attempt to find a solution. Perhaps a FILTER would work? Or a PERL block?

 

Here is the code from create_list_request.tt2:

 

<input type="text" id="listname" name="listname" size="30" value="[% saved.listname %]" />

                <!-- CODE CHECK FOR DASH EL IN LIST NAME -->

                [% IF saved.listname !~ '<chars>-L$' %]

                   [% SET saved.listname = ${saved-listname} _ '-l' %]

                [% END %]

 

[1] http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Directives.html#section_Conditional_Processing

 

Tim