I made a new CSS file, which simulated 3D cells using different border 
colors for the four sides of each cell. I plan to put this as the new 
default into the distribution. There is also a new ELOG icon. If anyone 
has a better one, please post it here!

The attached test.html (elog:/3) show the different classes in the CSS 
file, thanks to Etienne Van Caille <etienne.vancaillie@mba.be>.

The attached simple elogd.cfg implements a personal address book. Since 
version 2.5.2, data can be incorporated into ELOG via the CSV format. This 
way I moved my address data from MS Outlook to ELOG.

The address book is sorted according to the attribute "LastName", and the 
EmailAddress field is converted into a "" link which can be clicked 
to start your email frontend directly. Using the CSV or XML export 
functionality, the address book contents can easily be exported to other 
programs through the "find" page.

For those people who are running an elog instance at CERN and need to "hide" it behind the CERN Single Sign On (SSO), I've attached a working nginx.conf file to be used with OKD/PaaS at CERN.

Ideally, you can then configure the elog similar to the below, which will still allow people to register for individual elogs and be approved by an admin user. The usernames are then the CERN SSO usernames...

;
; admin
;
Admin user       = lgaffney
Password file    = /elog-nfs-2/ids_sso.passwd
Authentication   = Webserver, File
allow password change = 0
Login expiration = 0
Self register    = 3
 

This is the configuration of the discussion forum on this server. Special 
things are:

- a guest menu so people without an account can read it
- an entry can only be edited by the original author ('restrict edit = 1')
- the author and email attributes are taken from the password file and
  cannot be changed by the author, thus to make sure who wrote a specific
  entry
- the email notification is sent to all people who registered for it, but
  their email address is not contained in the "To:" field 
  (Omit Email to = 1) so that they don't see each other's email address
  (for security reasons). For the 'from' field in the email, my address
  is used to that people can hit 'reply' on automatic notifications and
  they will reach me.
- The option "Format <attribute>" is used for a compact page display

This is a typical shift logbook, in this case for an accelerator. It
contains following features:

- public read access
- write access only for registered users
- typical attributes for shift logbook
- author and author email get automatically filled in
- no email notification

This is the configuration of the 'Demo' logbook coming in the distribution, 
it contains only the most basic options.

This is the configuration of the demo database on this server. It is also 
very basic, with a few exceptions:

- no message text is used (show text = 0)
- no attachments are used (enable attachments = 0)
- in the message listing page, only certain attributes are displayed 
  (display search = ...)

This database like implementations work a bit like an Excel worksheet. 
Attributes are displayed in grid table, and one can click on the column 
titles to sort that column.

• it uses the same password file as the 'forum' logbook
  
• it has a guest menu so that people without an account can read it
  
• the author and email are automatically taken from the password file
  
• a 'last revision' gets updated on each edit
  
• entries can only changed by the origial author ('restrict edit = 1')
  
• no email notification is sent
  

Hier noch eine schön einfache CSS-Datei mit deutschen Kommentaren zur 
Funktion der Objekte. Kann immerhin helfen, um zu verstehen, wo man etwas 
einstellen muss.