Hello,

We would like to use more the quick filter command on attributes.

On the other hand, when we use it, the result does not displaying entries which are in answer of another attribute. Is there a command which allow that possibility like when we select display full entries in the search mode?

Thanks in advance

Xavier

I don't understand your questions. Can you please give an example. 

 Sorry for my english. In fact, i found the answer by myself. But I ll explain to you.

in attachement 1, a small part of our ELOG. When I choose FBT in the quick filter "groupe incriminé". Elog respond that there is no entrie found (attachement 2)

But, with the find function, when i select display full entries and FBT in "groupe incriminé", Elog show the entrie ( attachement 3).

I found the answer. In fact, Elog respond no entrie when threaded is selected. I have to choose Full or summary for that working.

sorry

Xavier

Actually what you report is a bug. The filtering does not work in threaded display mode, only in summary and full. I fixed that bug in the current SVN version, so if you download and compile it, you can give it a try. The fix will be contained in the next official release.

Hello,

  I gave it a try. See: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66690

Gabriele

We noticed some elog email messages were not showing up in our inboxes at random.  What we believe is happening is when a elog entry is created it is assigned a message id that the mail servers will use.  If a message is edited that same message id is used and some mail servers involved will ignore the duplicate message id.  We have also noticed when a elog entry is deleted the next entry created will assume the deleted entry message id and just like above the email will be ignored since it has a duplicate message id. 

The message ID is part of the "user data" of the email, not of the standard email header. So the mail servers "do not know" about the message ID, which make it strange that double messages are filtered. Nobody else reported this problem before. Maybe is it related to your SPAM filter? Can you check if the double entries are classified as SPAM in your case? 

 Hi Stefan,

I seem to recall this behaviour on this forum.  I was writing an entry, and due to mis-typing, submitted the entry before I had finished.  So I edited it, but there was only the one email sent.  I thought that this was how the thing was supposed to work.  To try it now, I am going to submit this, then edit the entry a little further, and we can all see if one or two emails are generated.

Well, I see just one email notification, have you already submitted your second? I tried on the "Demo" logbook here and I got two notifications. This can of course be turned off with the option "Suppress email on edit = 1". Maybe you are using this? 

 Here is the mail log:

Jan 12 13:51:54 techies lmtpunix[3184]: dupelim: eliminated duplicate message to user.jf id <neteng-1067@emich.edu> (delivery)

The message id we are experiancing problems with is in the header;

Message-ID: <neteng-1073@emich.edu>

Thank you for the help.

Having made one entry in the thread about message ID, I could neither edit the entry or add an additional reply
without getting "Proxy Error" messages.  I've had this trouble on this forum before, a long time ago.  Perhaps
it is connected with the html coding?

> Having made one entry in the thread about message ID, I could neither edit the entry or add an additional reply
> without getting "Proxy Error" messages.  I've had this trouble on this forum before, a long time ago.  Perhaps
> it is connected with the html coding?
Hi Stefan,

I now cannot even reply to you in the message id thread; I keep getting:

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request POST /elogs/Forum/.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.2.3 (Scientific Linux) Server at midas.psi.ch Port 443

It is, I think, something to do with the html coding (as I normally use plain, I don't come across this as an issue).

However, in the cause of the experiment, I will submit this entry, then go back and edit it, and if I don't get
Proxy Error, then that certainly will be something to do with the html coding.

And this is an extra edited line - if you see this, I got past the proxy error issue this time.  But did you get two
emails?

> > Having made one entry in the thread about message ID, I could neither edit the entry or add an additional reply
> > without getting "Proxy Error" messages.  I've had this trouble on this forum before, a long time ago.  Perhaps
> > it is connected with the html coding?
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I now cannot even reply to you in the message id thread; I keep getting:
> 
> Proxy Error
> 
> The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
> The proxy server could not handle the request POST /elogs/Forum/.
> 
> Reason: Error reading from remote server
> 
> Apache/2.2.3 (Scientific Linux) Server at midas.psi.ch Port 443
> 
> It is, I think, something to do with the html coding (as I normally use plain, I don't come across this as an issue).
> 
> However, in the cause of the experiment, I will submit this entry, then go back and edit it, and if I don't get
> Proxy Error, then that certainly will be something to do with the html coding.
> 
> And this is an extra edited line - if you see this, I got past the proxy error issue this time.  But did you get two
> emails?

That is interesting.  I can make 1 (one) submission to a thread which uses html coding, then I get hit by proxy errors. 
But I can edit, play around or whatever if it is in plain coding.  Yet to see how many emails were generated...

> > > Having made one entry in the thread about message ID, I could neither edit the entry or add an additional reply
> > > without getting "Proxy Error" messages.  I've had this trouble on this forum before, a long time ago.  Perhaps
> > > it is connected with the html coding?
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I now cannot even reply to you in the message id thread; I keep getting:
> > 
> > Proxy Error
> > 
> > The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
> > The proxy server could not handle the request POST /elogs/Forum/.
> > 
> > Reason: Error reading from remote server
> > 
> > Apache/2.2.3 (Scientific Linux) Server at midas.psi.ch Port 443
> > 
> > It is, I think, something to do with the html coding (as I normally use plain, I don't come across this as an issue).
> > 
> > However, in the cause of the experiment, I will submit this entry, then go back and edit it, and if I don't get
> > Proxy Error, then that certainly will be something to do with the html coding.
> > 
> > And this is an extra edited line - if you see this, I got past the proxy error issue this time.  But did you get two
> > emails?
> 
> That is interesting.  I can make 1 (one) submission to a thread which uses html coding, then I get hit by proxy errors. 
> But I can edit, play around or whatever if it is in plain coding.  Yet to see how many emails were generated...

Hi Stefan,

I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.

> I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.

Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):

1st reply to your entry.

1st reply edited.

> > I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> > next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.
> 
> Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):
> 
> 1st reply to your entry.
> 
> 1st reply edited.

I got two email notifications, the second one I attached as a screen shot. So I don't know what happened in your case. The problem 
with the proxy is sometimes related to slow internet connections. If the HTML code transported over the internet has some delay 
between packets, the proxy server sometimes drops the connection. I don't know how to fix that in my Apache. If you edit in HTML, 
your browser downloads the JavaScript code and icons for the edit window, which is a lot of data, so the dropping is much more 
likely.

> > > I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> > > next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.
> > 
> > Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):
> > 
> > 1st reply to your entry.
> > 
> > 1st reply edited.
> 
> I got two email notifications, the second one I attached as a screen shot. So I don't know what happened in your case. The problem 
> with the proxy is sometimes related to slow internet connections. If the HTML code transported over the internet has some delay 
> between packets, the proxy server sometimes drops the connection. I don't know how to fix that in my Apache. If you edit in HTML, 
> your browser downloads the JavaScript code and icons for the edit window, which is a lot of data, so the dropping is much more 
> likely.
Hi Stefan,

I confirm that this is a slow internet line, so that explains the Proxy Error.  

Maybe I should just keep my head down on threads where people use html coding ;-)

Did you receive two emails to my entry 66677?  I only received one.

I only received one email to your posting 66680 - the first entry, not the edited version.

> > > > I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> > > > next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.
> > > 
> > > Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):
> > > 
> > > 1st reply to your entry.
> > > 
> > > 1st reply edited.
> > 
> > I got two email notifications, the second one I attached as a screen shot. So I don't know what happened in your case. The problem 
> > with the proxy is sometimes related to slow internet connections. If the HTML code transported over the internet has some delay 
> > between packets, the proxy server sometimes drops the connection. I don't know how to fix that in my Apache. If you edit in HTML, 
> > your browser downloads the JavaScript code and icons for the edit window, which is a lot of data, so the dropping is much more 
> > likely.
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I confirm that this is a slow internet line, so that explains the Proxy Error.  
> 
> Maybe I should just keep my head down on threads where people use html coding ;-)
> 
> Did you receive two emails to my entry 66677?  I only received one.
> 
> I only received one email to your posting 66680 - the first entry, not the edited version.

I checked my email server and found that the second message really went though it. But then I realized that there is indeed the "Message-
ID:" in the email header (which I completely forgot in meantime). So maybe George Paplexis is right in that some mail 
server/forwarder/receiver ignore a second email if it has the same ID. That would mean however that I have to introduce a "revision 
number" for elog entries, which gets incremented on each edit and gets attached the the message-ID, so that it becomes unique again. 
That's quite some work and has to wait a bit.

> > > > > I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> > > > > next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):
> > > > 
> > > > 1st reply to your entry.
> > > > 
> > > > 1st reply edited.
> > > 
> > > I got two email notifications, the second one I attached as a screen shot. So I don't know what happened in your case. The problem 
> > > with the proxy is sometimes related to slow internet connections. If the HTML code transported over the internet has some delay 
> > > between packets, the proxy server sometimes drops the connection. I don't know how to fix that in my Apache. If you edit in HTML, 
> > > your browser downloads the JavaScript code and icons for the edit window, which is a lot of data, so the dropping is much more 
> > > likely.
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I confirm that this is a slow internet line, so that explains the Proxy Error.  
> > 
> > Maybe I should just keep my head down on threads where people use html coding ;-)
> > 
> > Did you receive two emails to my entry 66677?  I only received one.
> > 
> > I only received one email to your posting 66680 - the first entry, not the edited version.
> 
> I checked my email server and found that the second message really went though it. But then I realized that there is indeed the "Message-
> ID:" in the email header (which I completely forgot in meantime). So maybe George Paplexis is right in that some mail 
> server/forwarder/receiver ignore a second email if it has the same ID. That would mean however that I have to introduce a "revision 
> number" for elog entries, which gets incremented on each edit and gets attached the the message-ID, so that it becomes unique again. 
> That's quite some work and has to wait a bit.

I had come to the same conclusion about the mail header being the same (see my email to you for full details).  

Sorry to all your subscribers for the email ping pong, although if others did receive two emails on the relivent entries - one original, and
one edited, it would be interesting, if possibly now academic, to know.

I am in the process of setting up a new ELOG logbook.  I checked out rev2280 from svn.savannah.psi.ch.  I knew I wanted to encrypt passwords, so when I compiled, I used flags

USE_SSL=1

and

USE_CRYPT=1

I am running Red Hat enterprise linux 3, glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.50, openssl-devel-0.9.7a-33.25

Everything seemed to be working fine--I was able to set up logbooks using both a password file as well as write passwords and make entries to the logs.  Then I tried to use the command line 'elog' to make an entry which failed to both logbooks.

/opt/elog/pro/elogd -c /opt/elog/pro/dansce_fancy.cfg -l Demo1 -w <mypassword>

Would change the password in dansce_fancy.cfg and I could make entries through the web interface, but

elog -h acouture -s -p 8081 -w <mypassword> -l Demo1 -a Author="Aaron Couture" -a Type=Routine  -m Sampleinfo.txt -x -n 1

failed with

Error: Invalid user name or password

I got the same behaviour when I used a logbook with a user/password pair defined in a password file.

When I looked at the output from running elogd with the -v flag, I could see that everything was being received on the server side, but that the password did not agree with the write password in dansce_fancy.cfg

I then recompiled elog with

USE_SSL=1

USE_CRYPT=

And then the elog command line entries worked, both with write passwords and a password file (after recreating the password file and the write password).  Looking at the elog.c source code, it appears that it does not know to use crypt rather then base64_encode when USE_CRYPT is true.  elogd.c defined different behaviour if USE_CRYPT is defined.

Thanks,

Aaron Couture

Great! Thanks a lot for your patch. I appreciate if people not only come up with problems, but have already the solution. I committed your patch to the distribution, so it will be included in the next version.

- Stefan

Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
already onscreen.

> Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> already onscreen.

This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at

http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188

for example.

> > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > already onscreen.
> 
> This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> 
> http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> 
> for example.

Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  

> > > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > > already onscreen.
> > 
> > This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> > There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> > into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> > 
> > http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> > 
> > for example.
> 
> Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
> I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  

I'm not sure, but I doubt that it would work under Linux. It's a general security issue: If your browser has free access to 
your clipboard, then what happens if you for example copy-and-paste a password in some application, then forget your password 
in the clipboard, then you surf to a malicious website, and a script on that site grabs your clipboard contents? This would 
be a severe security hole on ANY operating system.

> > > > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > > > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > > > already onscreen.
> > > 
> > > This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> > > There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> > > into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> > > 
> > > http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> > > 
> > > for example.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
> > I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  
> 
> I'm not sure, but I doubt that it would work under Linux. It's a general security issue: If your browser has free access to 
> your clipboard, then what happens if you for example copy-and-paste a password in some application, then forget your password 
> in the clipboard, then you surf to a malicious website, and a script on that site grabs your clipboard contents? This would 
> be a severe security hole on ANY operating system.

Hi there,

In a linux installation straight out of the box, I can cut-and-paste text from the mailer program (a stand-alone one called
XCmail), from an xterm or similar into elog with no trouble.  I've not tried an image, I just attach them as I use plain encoding.
 Don't know how it would work if it were on a properly secure linux box.

I have installed Elog in a Windows-environment. It's working fine, but i get a new logbookfile each day. Is it possible to have all entries in 1 logbookfile?

No. The standard database engine inside ELOG works this way. It allows you to backup then every month or year easily just on the file system by copying all 10????a.log files for example. If you would have just one file (which could become very large), there is no easy way to do that. 

hi sirs,

am using freebsd, this morning i started elog and did a few record with no problem.

just this afternoon when i enter firefox3 http://localhost:8000/, i got zero number of records for all of my logbooks.

but the data are not erased though.

any idea would be appreciated.

regards,

jotawski

I want to extend the usage of ELOG and have 2 Questions:

1. Is it possible to have Fields which only appears if another selection is done? e.g. I create a new entry. This new entry has a type field. If I chose the Type "ABC" another field appears where the departemnt could be choosen. If I select Type "DEF" the Department field does not appear.

2. I have a field Status. This is a predefined field with 3 entries (New,  under progress, closed). If i change the status field time, date old and new status should be logged or written in the text field. I can log this with the answer field with a new ID. But is there any other way to log it in the text field or log it with no new ID? 

Can i implement the wishes above? If yes how does it work?

Thanks for your help

Michael

1. is simple, just use conditional attributes like:

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

2. is more complicated. Have a look at FAQ # 11. Try something like:

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

But when testing this, I realized that there is a bug in elog and the subsitution is done before the submission, not after. I fixed that in SVN revision 2263, so it will be contained in the next Windows release.

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

 Hello,

i tried

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

but it won't work. When I change the status i saw an information in the status bar of Internet Explorer like "Entry has changed" (Eintrag wurde verändert) but it is not written in the notes field. Or is it written to another field?  

Do I have to update first to the latest Windows Version? You wrote something about SVN revision 2263. When do you expect the windows version where this problem is fixed is available to download?  
 

Best Reagrds

Michael

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

 Hello,

it now works with the revisions. When do you expect that the new Windos version, which corrects the error you described, is available for download?

Best reagrds

Michael

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

You can download version 2.7.8 already since a while from  https://midas.psi.ch/elog/download/windows/

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

I installed the latest windows Version but have massive Problems with it. I can create a new entry and the revisions filed is updated. If I want to change the status field from "new" to e.g. "under progress" the elogd service at the server crashes every time i want to save the changes so i switched back to 2.7.5-2130 and it works without any service crashes.

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Can you try elog278-2. It should fix that problem.