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icon3.gif   Formatting list page data, posted by Steve Williamson on Wed Jun 10 09:16:55 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Formatting list page data, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jun 25 15:02:55 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: Formatting list page data, posted by Steve Williamson on Fri Jun 26 14:34:58 2009 
Message ID: 66387     Entry time: Wed Jun 10 09:16:55 2009     Reply to this: 66419
Icon: Idea  Author: Steve Williamson  Author Email: StephenWilliamson@Barnsley.gov.uk 
Category: Request  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.6 
Subject: Formatting list page data 

Thanks for a great piece of software - it does so much and is (mostly) so simple to use.  However, I do have a suggestion that (for me, at least) would make it even better -

I use elog for a variety of logging tasks but find that, because I want to see as complete a summary as possible, the list page can get very crowded with longer fields wrapping over several lines.  I would like to have more control over the way attributes are displayed here.  Specifically, being able to truncate data (e.g. to show just the first n characters of a description), being able to select a substring (e.g. displaying characters before the '@' character to remove the domain from an email address or displaying characters after the space to remove the day from a date in ddd dd/mm/yy format) and being able to concatenate fields (e.g. to show a reference in a single cell as "Incident 1234" by joining call type and call reference attributes).

regards

Steve

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