Hi

Here what i want to do :
Give my customer the GUI minus a few buttons in /siteadmin, eg Mailing List, Stats etc

I have modified siteManageMainMenu.tmpl and removed the link from over the blue Cobalt 'C' and removed the button at the bottom for Server Admin.

I noticed in this file the use of a [BUTTONS] tag, but I am unsure of where to find the reference or content of the tag.
I assume I am doing this the correct way ?

Can any one help me ?

Cheers
Peter

Hello

Can anyone even point me to some docs or FAQ's about this ?

Have I any other options ?

I don't really want to be breaking my box just yet, even though I have made backups of the tree.

Many thanks

There has never been any documentation on modifying the page templates, etc, as it was never intended for end customers to be doing that.

That being said, here's what I found on my stock RaQ4:

[root bruce]# cd /usr/admserv/
[root admserv]# grep --recursive "BUTTONS" *

cgi-bin/.cobalt/mailListList/mailListList.cgi: s/\[BUTTONS\]/$buttons/o;
cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteFPXsubweb/siteFPXsubweb.cgi: s/\[BUTTONS\]/$buttons/o;

templates/mailListList.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/personalMainMenu.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/personalSubMenu.tmpl: [BUTTONS]<BR>
templates/siteFPXsubwebList.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/siteList.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/siteManageMainMenu.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/siteManageSubMenu.tmpl: [BUTTONS]<BR>
templates/siteUserList.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/sysManageMainMenu.tmpl:[BUTTONS]
templates/sysManageSubMenu.tmpl: [BUTTONS]<BR>

So in a couple of the backend Perl scripts, the [BUTTONS] tag is substituted for the contents of the scalar $buttons in the HTML stream being generated.

And $buttons is defined/used here:

[root admserv]# grep --recursive "\$buttons" *

cgi-bin/.cobalt/mailListList/mailListList.cgi:my $buttons='';
cgi-bin/.cobalt/mailListList/mailListList.cgi: $buttons=<<END;
cgi-bin/.cobalt/mailListList/mailListList.cgi: s/\[BUTTONS\]/$buttons/o;
cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteFPXsubweb/siteFPXsubweb.cgi:my $buttons='';
cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteFPXsubweb/siteFPXsubweb.cgi: $buttons=<<END;
cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteFPXsubweb/siteFPXsubweb.cgi: s/\[BUTTONS\]/$buttons/o;

Hope this helps a bit...

Hi

Thats very helpful !

Thanks for you time on that.

I have not managed to complete what I want yet, but this is a good start.

Look like a lot of digging and trawling.

If I find any more I'll post here if people are interested.

Cheers

Yeah, there really isn't a good way to tinker with the various bits (HTML or back-end CGIs) on the older RaQs. On the newer systems (Qube 3 and RaQ 550), the Sausalito abstraction system was used to decouple the UI and the underlying system, making customizations and additions a lot easier to do without worrying about breaking the box.

Documentation for that still isn't "great", but it's better than the nothing that exists for the older products.