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icon3.gif   Feature request, posted by Nick on Tue Feb 11 11:26:03 2003 
    icon3.gif   Re: Feature request, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Feb 11 11:45:22 2003 
       icon2.gif   Re: Feature request, posted by Nick on Wed Feb 12 01:11:08 2003 
          icon2.gif   Re: Feature request, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Feb 12 08:54:05 2003 
Message ID: 217     Entry time: Tue Feb 11 11:45:22 2003     In reply to: 216     Reply to this: 218
Icon: Idea  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Info  OS:   ELOG Version:  
Subject: Re: Feature request 
> Can you consider implementing the following additions to the functionality
> 
> 1) Subt on edit <attribute> = xyz 
> 
> This would be fantastic for implementing version control so you can see 
who 
> has edited a posted or a db entry.

Can you give me an example of how you would use that?
 
> 2) Have a SORT fieldname flag so you can decide which column to sort 
things 
> by on a display listing in conjunction to the display flags, it current 
> defaults to the # column and I find i am directly linking to a sorted 
> display

Sorting is not done by the "#" column but by the sequence when messages have 
been entered. You can sort the table differently by clicking on the table 
titles (twice for reverse sort). To sort by default on a column, for example 
sort by the author, you can add

Start page = ?sort=author

into elogd.cfg which does the job.

> 3) Have the elogd.conf track actual log entries people have changed 
> detailing date and time etc.

Revision management is not forseen by the structure of the ELOG database. 
What you can do is if you edit a message you check "Resubmit as new entry", 
then you keep a copy of the old version. 

> 4) Ability to export contents of the log books to files on disk for backup 
> purposes as all data is contained within a single log file which causes 
> problem for command line searches.

Well, you have already all log book files on disk in a simple format:

YYMMDDa.log

(Year/Month/Day) which you can easily backup. By a mask like 02*a.log you 
can backup all data from 2002 and so on. The idea of having separate log 
files for each day is to have this possibility to simply backup various date 
intervals. 

What kind of command line searches are you interested in?

- Stefan
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