I just read all administrator guide especially in :

http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#access

and I didnt find it that exactly match with my need, or maybe I read wrong section :P

maybe my explanation little bit general.

I'll try to explain in detail, In my office, I just create 1 logbook for all employee,

one of my friend ask me if it possible to only give few people the ability to read all entry inside the logbook (all members), and the others (rest of the members) only able to input entry in the logbook and read their own.

please guide us.

Dear Stefan,

thanks to the answer you gave to my colleague. 

Now, attempting to follow your suggestion... If we will create several logbooks, one for each user,

1) there is a way to automatically duplicate all the entries in anoter "global" elog without loosing them and keeping them updated between the global and the individual logbooks? 

2) alternatively how I could activate a search in all these user logbooks (and only in this set of logbooks without searching in the others logbook present in the same file conf)? shall I gnereate a separated elog instance only for this set of logbooks? how to let this search to all option available only to a reduced number of "superusers" that are not "administrators?

thanks

Matteo

Hello,

I'm facing with a crash, which happen when I sort the entries by a datetime attribute (sort or rsort) and then i change the display mode from Full, Summary and Threaded.

For example, the elogd crashes when I try to connect from the Full display to Summary in sort mode. The issue presents for example by entering with the following URL:

http://host.name.com:8080/65+nm/?mode=summary&sort=Record+date

Can you please help me?

Here I reduced my elogd.cfg at minimum and I still get this issue:

[global]
port = 8080

[65 nm]
Attributes = Record date

Type Record date = datetime
Preset Record date = $date
List Display = Record date
Start page = ?sort=Record date

> Try this URL
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Forum/?cmd=Search

Ok, has been fixed. Will be included in the next version.

> The mode (i.e. summary, threaded, full) should be kept for the
> last??? and past??? links on a page.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Linux/last10?mode=threaded
> 
> The last20 link on this page should also be in threaded mode.

Has been fixed. Will be included in next version.

> I want to set up eLogs for a class w/out the need for passwords. But, at the
> same time, I don't want the students to change the config file. I tried
> setting up a global password, but am having some difficulty with the syntax
> I suppose I could remove the config command from the menu and edit the file
> using Pico, but that would require a better memory than I have...
> 
> ******************
> 
> usage: elogd [-p port] [-h hostname] [-D] [-c file] [-r pwd] [-w pwd] [-a
> pwd] [-l logbook]
> 
>        -p <port> TCP/IP port
>        -h <hostname> TCP/IP hostname
>        -D become a daemon
>        -c <file> specify configuration file
>        -v debugging output
>        -r create/overwrite read password in config file
>        -w create/overwrite write password in config file
>        -a create/overwrite admin password in config file
>        -l <logbook> specify logbook for -r and -w commands
> 
>        -k do not use keep-alive
> 
> [root@eMonster elog]# elogd -a youtheman
>           
> Must specify a lookbook via the -l parameter.

Nearly correct, just follow the note: specify a logbook via the -l parameter.
So if you logbook is called "linux", you enter

elogd -a youtheman -l linux

> Try to submit the following message:
> 
> *** cut here ***
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> *** cut here ***
> 
> In fact after the next line there were 4 lines with '-', but
> they were not accepted by elog:

Ok, also fixed. Updated version is at 

http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/elogd.c

Here is actually an example with '----' at the end:

-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------

> Hello,
>     Is it possible to have a drop down list with commas in the options.  
> For instance, if you want to have a attribute "CityState" you would 
> probably want a comma between the City and State name.  Since the Options 
> are separated by commas, it turns into two different options.  I dont know 
> if there is a way to do this or if this is a bug?

From the next version on *2.0.4), one can specify attributes in quotation 
marks like

Options town = San Francisco, "Paris, Texas", "Paris, France"

which then can include commas.