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icon5.gif   Importing XML, posted by David Chastain on Tue Oct 2 21:58:20 2012 
    icon2.gif   Re: Importing XML, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Oct 3 14:05:15 2012 
    icon4.gif   Re: Importing XML, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu Oct 4 11:35:12 2012 
Message ID: 67356     Entry time: Thu Oct 4 11:35:12 2012     In reply to: 67349
Icon: Warning  Author: Andreas Luedeke  Author Email: andreas.luedeke@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.9.1 
Subject: Re: Importing XML 

David Chastain wrote:
[...] Basically, I am trying to take spreadsheet data, convert it into XML and upload it as a logbook so I don't have to perform lots of data entry. I also tried .CSV but have had no luck.  Any thoughts or ideas? 

I've successfully imported a large amount of entries from old non-ELOG logbooks via XML.
The only problem that I did run into was the date format: ELOG is very restrictive on the imported format; it has to be either "MM/DD/YY(YY) (HH:MM:SS)" or "DD.MM.YY(YY)  (HH:MM:SS)".
When you export entries ELOG honours the "Date format" that you've specified in your elogd.cfg, therefore you cannot import the exported file until you reformat the date in the file.
 
Andreas
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