Hello. We are using explicity subdir names on our elog server to manage a large number of "Top groups" and sub "groups". When we create a new logbook from a template in the same group, it would be beneficial to automatically give a new subdir based on the previous one. At the very least, it should not reuse the same parameter as the template (see below).

At the moment, it copies the subdir parameter from the template logbook, which results in the new logbook writing to the same location as the template. That is very confusing and has the potential to be harmful as people can (and recently did) decide to delete these "duplicate" entries. But they are not duplicates, they are the exact same entries as the template logbook and deleting them removes them forever!

The way around this at the moment is to manually update the subdir after copying, but then the logbooks need to be re-indexed before the new logbook will display correctly. That requires a manual restart of the elogd process, which is less than ideal.