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icon5.gif   Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Siegel on Fri Aug 9 12:40:23 2002 
    icon2.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 9 12:50:58 2002 
       icon2.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Siegel on Fri Aug 9 13:04:58 2002 
          icon5.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 9 14:59:17 2002 
Message ID: 97     Entry time: Fri Aug 9 14:59:17 2002     In reply to: 96
Icon: Question  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
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Subject: Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values 
> Ok, but is there a possibility to preserve the fields of the old message, 
but 
> still be able to edit it. This would be a nice feature in the case of an 
entry 
> with lots of attributes (set to something different then the preset 
values). 
> After submiting the message you realize : one option was wrong and now you 
> want to edit it without changing the other options again.
> Is this possible?

Actually this is a good idea. After thinking a while, I wonder if anybody at 
all would like not to preserve the preset values. So if nobody complains, I 
will set the behaviour such that elog always preserves the entries if one 
edits an existing message.
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