The ELOG Home Page  

Home of the Electronic Logbook package by Stefan Ritt

  Current version is : 2.3.6  

  What is ELOG ?  

ELOG is part of a family of applications known as weblogs. Their general purpose is :

  1. to make it easy for people to put information online in a chronological fashion, in the form of short, time-stamped text messages ("entries") with optional HTML markup for presentation, and optional file attachments (images, archives, etc.)

  2. to make it easy for other people to access this information through a Web interface, browse entries, search, download files, and optionally add, update, delete or comment on entries.

ELOG is a remarkable implementation of a weblog in at least two respects :


  Screen shots  

elog.gif On the left upper panel is a typical logbook page displayed by Netscape Navigator. Each logbook page can contain attachments in a similar way to emails. This makes it possible to store images or text files and retrieve them easily. You could for example attach a sample configuration file which can later be copied to the local machine with the "Save As..." function of the Web browser.

Several logbooks can be served though a single ELOG server. Each logbook can use different attributes for its entries. The logbook can then be searched using these attributes. The right pane on the left image shows a search for all entries with attribute "Type" equal to "Configuration", and the lower pane shows the search result. It is also possible to use full-text search in attributes and the entry body.

While logbook entries are usually displayed one entry per page, they can also be listed consecutively which makes it easy to produce a paper printout of a logbook.

Logbook pages can be edited or deleted. This feature can be turned off in the configuration file so that a logbook entries cannot be changed after being submitted.

An additional feature is the automatic generation of a notification email messages based on a certain type or category of a logbook entry.

Also try out the online demo !


  Use cases  

The features of ELOG make it useful for several applications:


  License  

ELOG is released under the GNU Public License.


  Links  

If your are reading this documentation from your local ELOG server, check for updates on the ELOG Home Page.

See also the ELOG project pages on SourceForge and Freshmeat - Visits to this page since 23 May 2001: