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  66740   Thu Mar 11 15:35:40 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.8Re: Summary text field is empty for replied entries

You just start writing on top of the cited text 

Thomas wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Thomas wrote:

It is possible to show the (new) text of a replied entry in the summary text field ?

Actually only for the original entries the text was shown in the text column of the summary report, not for the replies.

In principle you can adjust the number of lines shown in the summary text file with the option summary lines = x. If you increase that value, you start seeing some part of the reply. For elog itself  it is impossible to distinguish the reply text from the origial text, since some people use plain text like

> original
> text
reply

with the reply sometimes below, sometimes above the original text. Other people use full HTML with tables (like in this forum), where it is very hard internally to distinguish between original and reply text. The easiest is not to quote the original text in replies, then you will see it always.

 Thank you very much for your answer.

Is there any way to invert the order of the original text and the reply text ?

 

  66741   Thu Mar 11 15:36:39 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.6.1-1681Re: eLog crash

Mirza Ehsan wrote:

I am using eLog ELOG V2.6.1-1681 which has 7 log books under 8 categories. Out of 7 log books, 2 are daily used. It happened that two weeks back. I modified information on two log books which were not used for quite longtime. Hence using CONFIG, I updated these log books, changing text etc. After that eLog in general started giving error. Any time when we click SUBMIT button in any log book, eLog shows page not found. That submit crashes eLog and as a result elogd service stops. Restarting elogd service, eLog operation comes back and the log which I submitted was actualy saved. Difficulty is that this problem is happening with every single submit action. 

I searched forum and learnt that upgrading eLog to newest version 2.7.8 will solve this problem. Upgrade created more problems, I was not able to open any log, authentication was not accepted. I restored that backup and went back to previous version. eLog started working but with submit error.

If any one can help me in fixing this problem

I propose that you get 2.7.8 working. If the authentication fails, try do do password recovery, or recreated the accounts. 

  66742   Thu Mar 11 15:38:32 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.6.1-1642Re: Wrong author when replying a reply

Mads Jessen wrote:

When replying on a reply, the author is set to the author on the original reply? Othervice it workes great!

part of code:
...
Preset Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author
Subst on reply author = $long_name
...

I use:

Preset Author = $long_name
Preset on reply Author = $long_name
 
  66744   Thu Mar 11 15:47:21 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.7Re: Fail to connect to SMTP server on WinXP but works on Win2K

David Spindler wrote:

David Spindler wrote:

Fantastic. I forgot the icon and when I resent nothing was left. 

Here goes again!

I have been running Elog for years on a Win2K machine with no email problems. I have been forced to move it to a WinXP machine and I always get this message under WinXP: "Error sending Email via "netsvr10.prod.company.com": Cannot connect to server"

 

I noticed this a long time ago but was not concerned until I wqas forced to use WinXP. We have years of data in the Elog and to lose the use of it would hinder our operation a lot.

 

Here is an entry from the elog.log file when it worked under Win2K:

28-Oct-2009 18:28:38 [609144@199.82.127.9] {Generals} NEW entry #0
28-Oct-2009 18:28:38 [609144@199.82.127.9] {Generals} Email from <christophermeyer@fedex.com> to david.spindler@company.com, SMTP host smtp.mail.company.com
28-Oct-2009 18:28:42 [609144@199.82.127.9] {Generals} 220 netsvr10.prod.company.com -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit))

 

Here is an entry from today's elog.log under WinXP that does not work.

06-Mar-2010 11:48:23 [117361@127.0.0.1] {Gbld} NEW entry #0
06-Mar-2010 11:48:23 [117361@127.0.0.1] {Gbld} Email from <david.spindler@company.com> to david.spindler@company.com, SMTP host smtp.mail.company.com
06-Mar-2010 11:48:23 [117361@127.0.0.1] {Gbld} READ entry #1612

We use an SMTP server without authentication.
 

 I picked a bad example with an IP address of 127.0.0.1, but it is the same as a valid IP address such as the working entries above or the entry below.

06-Mar-2010 10:31:43 [117361@199.81.166.149] {Gbld} READ entry #1691
06-Mar-2010 10:39:10 [117361@199.81.166.149] {Gbld} NEW entry #0
06-Mar-2010 10:39:11 [117361@199.81.166.149] {Gbld} Email from <david.spindler@company.com> to david.spindler@company.com, SMTP host smtp.mail.company.com

 

 

The only idea I have is that your Windows firewall prevents outgoing network traffic on port 25 (SMTP). You should put an exception into the firewall rule. You can try that by opening a DOS box and entering

telnet smtp.mail.company.com 25

if you see a reply, the traffic is allowed. If it blocks, the firewall prevents this kind of traffic.

  66746   Fri Mar 12 08:57:07 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.8.2282Re: Limit elog e-mail to only people involved with an entry

Paul Paquette wrote:

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.

That should be possible with the following configuration options:

Suppress email to users = 1
Email all = <your e-mail>, <your supervisor e-mail>, $user_email 
  66747   Fri Mar 12 09:16:28 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestWindowsV2.7.8-228Re: Last 3 days of log entries
> 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.

David send me his modification and I put it into the main source code, so it will be contained in the next Windows 
version.

> 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.

Yepp ;-)
  66750   Fri Mar 12 10:15:20 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5-2140Re: Grouping Logbooks

mike cianci wrote:

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

First of all, why do you a reply to a very old message? For each new topic you should start a new thread.

I don't know exactly what goes wrong in your case. Just a few ideas:

  • Having a '.' in a logbook name can cause trouble, better remove it
  • Having a subdir starting with '\\' might work, but I never tried it, does it work if you use a subdirectory on the same drive just with "Subidr = \elog\..." ?
  • There is also the option "Logbook dir = ..." which you might try
  66751   Fri Mar 12 11:26:27 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.8-2280Re: can one use a IOption field for conditional tests?

FX FRERE wrote:

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

Conditions won't work for IOption attributes. You need an additional attribute like:

Attributes = Status, Subject, Icon
Options Status = OK{1}, Failed{2}
Ioptions Icon = icon1.gif, icon2.gif

{1}Preset icon = icon1.gif
{2}Preset icon = icon2.gif
 
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