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icon7.gif   Changing Entry Time, posted by Jay Johnstone on Mon Jul 27 01:39:18 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Changing Entry Time, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jul 27 08:40:50 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: Changing Entry Time, posted by Jay Johnstone on Mon Jul 27 09:25:06 2009 
Message ID: 66462     Entry time: Mon Jul 27 08:40:50 2009     In reply to: 66461     Reply to this: 66463
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: 2.7.6 
Subject: Re: Changing Entry Time 

Jay Johnstone wrote:

Hi,

I am new to eLog, trying to make a logbook tool.  This is probably a question with a simple answer, but here it is...  I need to be able to edit the entry time for an entry as it is being made and also in Edit mode later.  We have field staff who use a paper log in the field and then come back to the computer later and create the log entries, and they need to be time stamped to reflect when an event happened, not when the entry is put into the log.

I'm guessing I'm missing something easy in my Config file, I've looked through the config examples and searched the forum but I couldn't come up with an example of how to make this work.

Thanks in advance!

Jay

Hi Jay,

the entry time cannot be changed, because it should reflect the real time when the entry was made. What you can do in your case is to define a "datetime" attribute, which contains then the time stamp. You need something like this:

Attributes = Author, Field time, Subject

Type Field time = datetime

... 

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