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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: 66419     Entry time: Thu Jun 25 15:02:55 2009     In reply to: 66387     Reply to this: 66426
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Request  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.6 
Subject: Re: Formatting list page data 

Steve Williamson wrote:

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

Something along these lines is however not implemented (and hard to do). The only chance you have is to export your data into a spreadsheet and do the reformatting/report generation there. 

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