Lyris Listmanager is a nice mailing list management system. However, there are a few features that are missing out of the frontend that make it hard to get by your day-to-day office job. Fortunately, most of it is written with TCL routines which are not encoded, which makes for easy updates to this code. Of course this is not supported by Lyris and if you have problems with it after making your changes, don’t expect them to support it. Make backup of your files – in Linux this is /usr/local/lm For this example, I’m going to add the Full Name field to survey results. By default, it shows the email address but not the name of the responding user. Step 1: Backup! 1cp -R /usr/local/lm /usr/local/lm.bak Step 2: Open the file which holds the routine for the “Survey Details” page. This is in /htdocs/reports/surveys/.tml 1vi /usr/local/lm/htdocs/reports/surveys/.tml Step 3: Modify the….

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