Is there a way to open a form or table when clicking on New rather than going to a text field? Thanks, TS!

 The HTML editor contains a table editor such as this:

Just click on the menu with the little table icon 

 Thank you very much for your replies Stefan and Andreas!

I've played with the Preset Text = input-form.html however when I open a new form it just has text in there stating "input-form.html. I feel like I'm missing a way for the Configuration to find my html file.

I feel like I am close but I'm missing one piece of data. Here is what I'd like to have, when I click "New" I'd like this table to be automatically inserted in the body.

Thanks again, Terry

If you see only the file name it means that elogd cannot find the file, it's probably in the wrong directory. Have you put it into the "logbooks" directory? Like c:\Program Files\ELOG\logbooks\ ? 

 Yes thanks Stefan! It is working now.

Thanks again!

We upgraded to Elog 2.9.0-2402 and since then mails sent by Elog when posting an item are from the default account, not from the logged in user's mail address.

The configuration is, for the mail part :

Default Email From = Olivier.Callot@cern.ch

Use Email Subject = ELOG Computing Operations - $Subject ($Site - $System - $Production number)

Thanks for telling me which flag/option I have to set to restore the proper mail 'From:' field.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I have fixed it in SVN revision 2407. 

 In the password file, I see several same username, such as:

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

    <last_logout>Tue Apr 14 14:12:44 2009</last_logout>

    <last_activity>Wed May 19 09:39:32 2010</last_activity>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

    <email_notify/>

  </user> 

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

   <last_logout>0</last_logout>

    <last_activity>0</last_activity>

      <inactive>0</inactive>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

    <email_notify/>

  </user> 

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

    <last_logout>0</last_logout>

    <last_activity>0</last_activity>

      <inactive>0</inactive>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

       <email_notify/>

  </user> 

I don't know the reason why eLog can have the same username.

And what should I do to prevent these things happen?

Thanks!

Thanks for reporting that bug. It has been fixed in SVN revision 2404.  

I am attempting to setup an ECR (Engineering Change Review/Request) process in ELOG.

I have a logbook setup so that an original request is submitted with a status of "Approval Pending"

Options ECR Status = Approval Pending, Approved / In Progress, Completed / In QA, Closed

Once the entry is made, it is reviewed by several people who reply to the original entry and update the approval fields, adding any comments as a reply :

Options OPS Approval = Approved, Denied
Options ENG Approval = Approved, Denied
Options Director Approval = Approved, Denied

Once the final approval is obtained, they reply to the thread and update the ECR Status field to "Approved / In Progress"

This goes through our QA process, and is finaly updated with "Closed"

The problem is, I would like to keep the historical data of when the status of these entries are made. For example, in the message thread, I can see that reply #4 changed the "Status" field to "Approved". However, I can not seem to find a way for this to work with quick filtering. The quick filter always filters on the first entry on a thread, and not the last.

The other option would be to change the status of the first entry, but that seems silly as I am using replys instead of edits.

Any ideas on how to implement this "Status" field into my workflow? I am even open to losing the historical "status" and beeing able to change all entries on the thread on reply. (i.e. Reply #4 changes "Status" to "Approved", and the system changed all entries in the thread to "Approved")

I noticed a behavior that might be irritating. 

After attaching/uploading files to an entry and before submitting it, one might press 'Back' or close the browser window.

This in effect cancels the entry and sends into oblivion. HOWEVER the attachments and their thumbnail files remain on the server forever.

Would there be a way to either delete attachments after some time if they don't show up in an entry? Or some other magic trick with the browser? My logbook directories are already full of orphan files that I need to seek and destroy.

Also, any thoughts on automatically cleaning up a logbook directory when the damage is done?

Louis

Well, this is not so easy. When you leave the browser (via 'Back' or just by closing), it has no way to communicate with the elog server. I could put in some JavaScript, but if people switch off JavaScript there is no way. On the other hand it might be simple to write just a little shell script, which goes through all files on the server and checks if the file name occurs in some elog entry. This can probably be done with some combination of "find" and  "grep", but I'm not a shell script expert.

How about this:

Whenever a new file is uploaded, it would first be stored in a temporary directory. When the entry gets submitted, the files would be moved to the logbook directory and the entry edited accordingly.

Any wrongfully stored file would remain in that temp dir. Starting/restarting the daemon would cleanup that directory. Seems like a simpler approach and does not involve scripting the browser.

It looks like the newest windows release of elog at
http://midas.psi.ch/elog/download/windows/ is 2.81.

  elog281-1.exe	        23-Dec-2010 11:42 3.1M
  elog-latest.exe       23-Dec-2010 11:42 3.1M

Can you post the 2.90 release.

Thanks.

-- rouilj

> It looks like the newest windows release of elog at
> http://midas.psi.ch/elog/download/windows/ is 2.81.
> 
>   elog281-1.exe	        23-Dec-2010 11:42 3.1M
>   elog-latest.exe       23-Dec-2010 11:42 3.1M
> 
> Can you post the 2.90 release.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- rouilj

Yepp, done. I somehow overlooked it.

- Stefan

I moved my elog install to a new box on short notice due to an emergency, everything works but none of the passwords are recognized, and are not using what it set in elogd.cfg.  any ideas ?

You did not specify which version of elog you were using. There was recently an update which uses a new format in the password file. When you start this the first time, the program should convert automatically from the old format to the new format and thus increasing security. If this does not work for some reason, so can do password recovery using the "Forgot password?" link in the login page. 

I want to implement the following feature in my logbook:
selecting an Option related to a specific Attribute produces a filter on the Options related to the other Attributes.

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Example:
I have the following configuration:
" Attributes = Project, Category
Options Project = Agenda, Software
Options Category = General, Data, Result, Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE,
Reminder, Result, Other
...
Quick filter = Project, Category "

I want that: if on the Quick filter I select "Project = Agenda", then the entry "Category" displays only the Options "Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE, Reminder, Other"; if on the Quick filter I select "Project = Software", then the entry "Category" displays only the Options "General, Data, Result, Other".
See the attached JPGs (they are edited printscreens from my logbook).

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Is there a way to do this?

Thank you in advance!
Cossutta

That's possible with conditional attributes:

Attributes = Project, Category
Options Project = Agenda{1}, Software{2}
{1}Options Category = Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE, Reminder, Other
{2}Options Category = General, Data, Result, Other
Quick Filter = Project, Category 

Attributes = Project, Category
Options Project = Agenda{1}, Software{2}
{1}Options Category = Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE, Reminder, Other
{2}Options Category = General, Data, Result, Other
Quick Filter = Project, Category 

Thanks a lot for the prompt answer!

Cossutta