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icon5.gif   Digest page or email?, posted by Graham Medlin on Wed Sep 28 22:10:30 2011 
    icon2.gif   Re: Digest page or email?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Sep 29 10:12:40 2011 Screen_Shot_2011-09-29_at_9.58.02_.pngScreen_Shot_2011-09-29_at_10.06.52_.png
       icon2.gif   Re: Digest page or email?, posted by Graham Medlin on Thu Sep 29 16:55:25 2011 
Message ID: 67133     Entry time: Thu Sep 29 10:12:40 2011     In reply to: 67132     Reply to this: 67134
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.9.0-2411 
Subject: Re: Digest page or email? 

Graham Medlin wrote:

We have about 10 logbooks running on the same Elog that all get fair use. Many people have turned off new entry emails because they were filling up inboxes, but are still interested in what's new. I saw the option to add "?last=1" to the start page, although I'm afraid using it might cause confusion over how to get to the older posts.

I was trying to figure out a way of creating a "digest" of sorts, a list of entry subjects posted in the past day or week, something similar to what's generated by "?last=1?mode=threaded", but for every logbook (similar layout to the selection page with nested logbooks). This could either be a page, or a regular email.

Is there way to generate such a cross-logbook page? What about a scheduled email formatted based on a given filter?

PS: The elog has been invaluable to us, a big thanks to all involved!

What we do is use the RSS feed of elog. This gives you nice summaries without going through your email inbox. Most browsers have RSS readers, there are also tons of stand-alone programs for that. Attached is a screenshot from the Google Reader subscribed to this logbook and to the "contributions' logbook. You see nice one-line summaries, you can expand them, and you can go directly to the logbook if you click on the arrow. The second image is from the Firefox using what they call "live bookmarks", but it's basically a RSS reader.

To make this work, I installed the RSS extension of Google Chrome (Firefox has this under "Bookmarks"/"Subscribe to this page"), then go to the elog page, then click on the RSS icon, then clicked on "Subscribe to this" via Google Reader. Just a few clicks.

 

Hope this is what you want.

 

- Stefan

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