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icon1.gif   Special characters in attribute names, posted by Steve Williamson on Thu Nov 13 13:23:32 2008 
    icon2.gif   Re: Special characters in attribute names, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Nov 17 10:18:52 2008 
       icon2.gif   Re: Special characters in attribute names, posted by Steve Williamson on Mon Nov 24 13:49:56 2008 elogd.cfg.txttrace.txt
          icon2.gif   Re: Special characters in attribute names, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Nov 24 17:53:23 2008 
             icon2.gif   Re: Special characters in attribute names, posted by Steve Williamson on Wed Nov 26 12:49:08 2008 
Message ID: 66048     Entry time: Mon Nov 17 10:18:52 2008     In reply to: 66043     Reply to this: 66074
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Bug report  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.5 
Subject: Re: Special characters in attribute names 

 

Steve Williamson wrote:

Hi

Thanks for elog - it's a brilliant piece of software.  I'd looked all over for open source software to log/manage change requests before discovering elog; it's so flexible that I've been able to do everything I need with it.

However, I think that I've just discovered my first undocumented 'feature'.  Attribute names containing punctuation characters (e.g. / and :) cause "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded" errors in Firefox 3.0.2 and corrupt the URL if they're used in a Quick Filter.  I often use '/' in attribute names for brevity, e.g. "Old/New Versions" but hadn't used one in a Quick Filter before.

 

Quick answer: Don't use '/' in attribute names ;-) but I guess you were kind of afraid to get this answer.

Somehow longer answer: I tried to reproduce your problem with following configuration:

[demo]
Attributes = Author, Type, Subject, Old/New
Options Old/New = Old, New
Quick filter = Type, Old/New

But I was not successful. Everything worked fine using ELOG V2.7.5-2137. Can you please check with the above configuration and tell me exactly when the redirection problem occurs? Is it during filtering on already on creating a new entry?

 

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