Dear Ken,

first of all thanks for trying to improve the documentation. For me as the developer it's always hard to imagine what people need to know, since I know already all about elog. Therefore I ask usually other people to write the documentation. The one for elog was written by Fred Pacquier.

When going through your comments, I realize that you had some problems on your first steps. But you say you have a Windows installation. If you use the normal installer, you get some entries in your "Start" menu under Windows, with which you can directly access your "demo" logbook which comes with the installation: Start -> All Programs -> ELOG -> Demo Logbook (requires running server). To create a logbook, just access your demo logbook, then clock on "Config", then you see a button "Create new logbook". Your point 1) mentioned above is actually not necessary if you use the default root directory. It might confuse people more than it helps. Point 2) is true, but only some internal database behavior, which might not be interesting to most users.

Hi,

I have been trying to get the display mode into threaded by default, it does not work on any of my logbooks. I saw related threads in this forum but none gave me a solution (unless the 2.7.8-2282 is available for download).

Here is a simple example which i can not get working.

thanks for your help

FX

Hi again,

I was wondering if one could use a conditional statement on an IOption attribute? Indeed i try to do a visual logbook (a green check for OK result, a red cross for NOK result), unfortunately i cannot refer to the attributes value for conditional test, e.g:

IOptions Status= "Delete-icon.png" {1}, "Check-icon.png"{2}
Icon comment Delete-icon.png = Failed
Icon comment Check-icon.png = OK

{1} Show Attribute Edit = Attribute1, Attribute2

Thread Icon = Status

Attribute1 and 2 do not have any sense if the result was successful,

ELOG interprets the {1} and {2} as being part of the icon name!

thanks again for your help

FX

Is it possible to create a drop down menu for the last 3 days of log entries. Currently we have the last day, month, 3 month, etc.

Reason being, after a weekend most people would like to view the log entries for the last three days. Can anyone help me out here?

 Stefan, sorry to bother you yet again. but I can not seem to get the "Subdir" to do what I want (user error I am sure). Thanks for any help you can give.

[OnlineHelps]
Write Password = SWNlQ3ViZQ==
;DISPLAY
Theme = default
Display mode = threaded
Mode Commands = 0
List Menu commands = New, Find, Config

Thread display = --------------  $Title  --------------

Comment = On-Line Helps
Attributes = Title
Required Attributes = Title
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1

[OLH.gsh]

Subdir = \\ssoelog\ELOG\logbooks\OnlineHelps
Write Password = SWNlQ3ViZQ==
;DISPLAY
Theme = default
Display mode = threaded
Mode Commands = 0
List Menu commands = New, Find, Config

Thread display = --------------  $Title  --------------

Comment = On-Line Helps
Attributes = Title
Required Attributes = Title
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1

It is a good point, and surprised that this particular number of days was overlooked.

It only needs four lines added into elogd.c to achieve this.  Even with my notorious 
c coding, I did it first time, but as I'm on linux, not a great help for you.  Indeed, 
any other arbitary number of days could be added in, if you have the sources and means 
to recompile.

I think windows versions are only updated on version number, not svn number, so it will 
require a request to the great man himself(*) to produce a new version for windows.

(*)Hint; Stefan likes the occasional beer.


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Howdy and Thank you in advance.

       Can I limit an elog entry mails to only go to my e-mail, my supervisor and the person who is entering the elog entry.  I have the Elog server on Windows XP Pro running version 2.7.8.2282.

Thank you

Paul