Forum OpenACS Q&A: Custom email

Posted by Vel Pillai on 06/08/04 08:29 PM

Hello Forum, I am new to OpenACS. I am trying to customize the content of the emails it sends when some one forgets their password. Which file do i need to modify to perform the customization. Any help is highly appreciated Thanks, Vel

2: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Luigi Martini on 06/08/04 11:42 PM

I am totally unexpert but, as nobody posted the right answer yet, I try and help. Your OpenACS install should be somewhere inside you disk. Also, there should be some command in your system which performs a search for a given expression and tells you the location of such an expression. Such Linux commands have strange names to me, I do not know which one is to be used, but some command of the kind should exist. Also, I guess, you know the text you want to change.
Would it be useful to try a search for some particular string of text within the whole OpenAcs install?
Maybe.

3: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Luigi Martini on 06/08/04 11:57 PM

Try

grep -rH some_text_you_don't_like OpenACS_directory

This would be the very first time I use grep in my life, which means: a) I really would like to help, although I do not have much experience; b) hopefully somebody will correct me, should I be wrong 😉

4: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Brad Duell on 06/09/04 12:01 AM

Well, using acs-lang in OpenACS, the catalog for messages that goes out is in /packages/acs-subsite/catalog/acs-subsite.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml and are called by auth::password:: procedures in /packages/acs-authentication/tcl/password-procs.tcl

5: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Vel Pillai on 06/09/04 12:28 AM

Luigi and Brad, Thanks for the response. I located the packages/acs-subsite/catalog/acs-subsite.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml and /packages/acs-authentication/tcl/password-procs.tcl and modified the email content (site name, greeting etc). Then i restarted the aolserver and tested the email content. no effect was noticed. How to go about this further? Thanks in advance Vel

6: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Brad Duell on 06/09/04 12:46 AM

If the values are already loaded (which happens when the package is installed) then you have to change the values via acs-lang (most likely mounted at /acs-lang/admin/) thru your browser.

For example. Going to:
/acs-lang/admin/edit-localized-message?package%5fkey=acs-subsite&locale=en_US&message%5fkey=email_body_Forgotten_password

Will allow you to edit the English message for email_body_Forgotten_password for acs-subsite

Either that, or I believe clicking on "Import all messages" from /acs-lang/admin/ will re-load your catalogs from file.

7: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 1)

Posted by Vel Pillai on 06/09/04 01:16 AM

I didnt try the second solution. But the first one worked!!!!
Thanks Brad :) I dont think it is a bad idea to create links for email customization from the admin pages.
Vel

8: Re: Custom email - newbie question (response to 5)

Posted by Thomas Rathjen on 06/09/04 01:40 AM

Vel,
if you have modified the text direct in the xml file, you must upload the modified xml file in the database.
Or you modify the text at the admin page of the lanquage modul.

Thomas

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