When someone logout from my Elog, or the person does not have access to a logbook (due to "Login user  =") the person gets a blank webpage with "redir" typed in the upper left corner.

I guess it should redir to some webpage? How can I get it to actually do that? Am I missing something in elogd.cfg?

Have you tried the URL = ... statement? 

If a user that is not in "Login User =" tries to enter it would be nicer to have a "Access denied", instead of getting the first page again (user just keeps on trying and gets upset)... =)

Hi,

I have a logbook which, among other things, contains these attributes:

Options Ingredient = Egg, Oil

Options Quantity = 2, 0.1L

Now, I would like to, every time I select an ingredient and respective quantity, that another Ingredient and Quantity field opens up for me to procede addind them.

I've searched in the documentation and found nothing related to this. Maybe I missed it. Is it possible to do this?

Also, is there a way to display 2 attributes in the same row? Messing with CSS is probably the only answer ... correct?

Thank you very much,

Diogo

Recursive attributes are not possible. All you can do is to define a certain number (like Ingredient1, Ingredient2, Ingredient3) and use Conditional Attributes to show them using the "Show Attributes Edit = ..." option.

To display two attributes in the same row, use 

Format <attribute> = 1

for the second attribute.

 Ok, thank you for your answer.

I guess my next question is whether it is possible to have, for example, 2 attributes:

Options Ingredient1 = 

Options Ingredient2 = 

Extendable options = Ingredients1, Ingredients2

sharing the exact same possible list of values.

Thanks agin.

If you add via an option to one Ingredient, you have to add it to the other as well. There is no automatic way to do that. 

Greetings,

In table list mode, I would like to control how much width is given to "subject" column (my attribute).   Can't find any method to control in config file.  Problem is that the subject is often quite long and jammed into a small width, when the text is often empty and has more width than needed.

Thanks,

RT

Hello,

The elog security suits me just fine: the content is not available unless users have logged in, and as administrator I have complete control over who that is and what their privileges are. I can easily share somewhat sensitive notes, plots, and findings without making them completely open to the world. 

I have a project which generates html pages, which I'm also not really supposed to make public to the world.  I'd rather not resort to attaching them to elog entries.

Could the elog security be extended to control access to other files I put on the server? 

Thanks,

-jmsj

If you don't want  to make elog attachments, don't use elog at all. Just use a simple web server like Apache. Most web servers have some mean to protect certain web pages with passwords etc.

Found a thread from 2004 ("External authentication") asking about the possibility of tying that in with ELog and answer was "Not yet". With time past, any chance this is now possible? I didn't see any more info on that since. 

I'd like to explore using AD to set up/manage groups for ELog authentication. Alternatively, is there currently another way with ELog to manage groups?

Regards.

External authentication is still on the list. But I'm not sure what is the best way: LDAP, PAM, Kerberos. Should work under windows and linux. Unfortunately I won't have time in the next few months to implement that, but it stays high on my todo list. 

Hi

When I upload a message with a attachment (and also without an attachment) I get this message:

"No SMTP host defined in [global] section of configuration file"

However the file and the text have been uploaded. So why does it gives me this message, and how do I work this out?

Best Regards

Tirwit

This error comes if you have configured email notifications, and no SMTP host defined in the configuration file. Elog has to contact your SMTP server to send any email. Read the email notification paragraph in the documentation. 

When entering data for a new log entry some folks always type in an attribute and then the "Enter" key which automatically

submits the entry. Is there a way to prevent this so the only way a new entry is submitted is with the Submit button. Also

is there a way to setup the main text box as a required attribute?

Thanks

Gary

Hi,

Is it possible to attach multiple files at one time?  Right now I have to attach each individually, click submit, then confirm, then re-select the next file...

This is a pain if one is attaching many files as I often want to do.  It would be nice to be able to select groups of files together using Ctrl and/or Shift, and even to attach a whole directory recursively.

I looked through previous threads but did not find this question asked there.

Thanks,

Eric

This is a well known problem, but unfortunately it's a limitation of HTML and how web browsers work. If it would be easy to attach whole directories to HTML forms, it would be too easy to steal important files from your computer. So the HTML designers decided that each file hast to be confirmed manually, and that's why you have to click so often. There is no way ELOG could bypass this scheme. 

 Hi Stefan,

Okay thanks for letting me know.  That is unfortunate now.

Is there no way also to select multiple files with shift or ctrl?  Is there any usable workaround that you can see?

Thanks,

Eric