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icon4.gif   Can't use the command-line client, posted by Pieter Edelman on Wed Mar 16 20:04:32 2005 
    icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 16 22:14:19 2005 
       icon7.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by Pieter Edelman on Thu Mar 17 09:56:21 2005 
          icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Mar 17 10:02:45 2005 
             icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by Pieter Edelman on Thu Mar 17 23:06:54 2005 
                icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Mar 18 08:02:52 2005 
    icon5.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by David Spindler on Tue Oct 4 19:40:27 2005 
       icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by David Spindler on Tue Oct 4 20:24:26 2005 
          icon2.gif   Re: Can't use the command-line client, posted by David Spindler on Tue Oct 4 20:33:05 2005 
Message ID: 989     Entry time: Thu Mar 17 10:02:45 2005     In reply to: 988     Reply to this: 990
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.5.7 
Subject: Re: Can't use the command-line client 
> On a side note, one would expect that when "Fixed Attributes Edit" or "Fixed Attributes
> Reply" is set, the attributes in this list shouldn't be supplied with the command line client.

Well, don't shoot yourself in the foot! The communication between elog and elogd is limited. elog
more or less submits "blindly" whatever you give it on the command line. If "Fixed Attributes
Edit/Reply" is set in the configuration, this only affects the web page with the entry form, so
these attributes are not shown as edit boxes. They are not checked during submission by elogd. Now
to get the same functionality with elog, elog whould have to retrieve the full entry form, analyze
the HTML code, find out which attributes have edit boxes and which ones not. So that's a lot of
work. Since most people use elog in scripts, they set it up once and forever correctly. There are
actually a few people which even want the functionality that elog can change attributes which are
normally fixed.

- Stefan
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