On 12/9/2004 17:45, "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> brad wrote: >> >> But here is the key: >> >> *** I don't want to just customize the look and feel of the page, I want >> data that the users enter into new "title" and "company" fields be entered >> and accessible in the Mailman database so that we can at least try to verify >> that people who join the list are not competitors, and are truly our >> customers. >> >> In other words I want to add two fields to the <MM-Subscribe-Box> part of >> the "General list information page". That page already has >> <MM-Subscribe-Box> and a <mm-fullname-box> fields, I would like to somehow >> add a <mm-jobtitle-box> and a <mm-company-box> and be able to access the >> data that the customers enter for those field later on. >> >> I guess the easiest way to do this would be for the customers to add text on >> the page "Please put your name, title, and company in this field) above the >> "name" <mm-fullname-box>, and then they would submit this data for the email >> and name fields: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> John Doe, President, ABC Corp >> >> But my boss would prefer not doing it that way. I am sure this is probably >> possible modifying the python code, but I am looking for an easy way, if >> possible, of doing this. > > You could certainly modify the subscribe form to add the two additional > fields. You wouldn't necessarily have to define <mm-jobtitle-box> and > <mm-company-box> to do this. You could just add the HTML for the > fields directly to the edited template. > > But either way, what next? You have to modify the processing of the > form to accept and validate these fields and store these values in > newly defined attributes in the member database (stock database is > included with list configuration in the list's config.pck pickle). > You'd also have to deal with collecting the data in these fields via > other subscription methods such as e-mail. It looks to me like changes > to several pieces of Mailman would be involved. > > And we haven't even addressed what you're going to do with this > information. To me, it feels as if Brad is more interested in Customer Relations Manager software than in mailing list software (one does want to know the title and company when sending CRM-type messages, as in Brad's example above). Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Articles 3.18, 3.37 (found by searching for Relations--there might be more in there for other searches) --John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
