Restrict Edit = 1

Preset Author = $long_name
Preset on reply Author = $long_name
Preset on duplicate Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author

When ROptions items contain the same substring and this substring is also an ROptions item (ex: notdone, 
done), the value of the entry could change in the edit page. 
It depends on the item order in the config file. 

If Options is used (instead of ROptions), it works as expected.

Is it a bug?


Examples : 

#Insert "notdone" as new entry. When you try to edit the entry, the displayed value is "done".

[test_bad]
Attributes = Author, Category
ROptions Category = notdone, done

#No problem if you change the item order 

[test_good]
Attributes = Author, Category
ROptions Category = done, notdone

> When ROptions items contain the same substring and this substring is also an ROptions item (ex: notdone, 
> done), the value of the entry could change in the edit page. 
> It depends on the item order in the config file. 
> 
> If Options is used (instead of ROptions), it works as expected.
> 
> Is it a bug?
> 
> 
> Examples : 
> 
> #Insert "notdone" as new entry. When you try to edit the entry, the displayed value is "done".
> 
> [test_bad]
> Attributes = Author, Category
> ROptions Category = notdone, done
> 
> #No problem if you change the item order 
> 
> [test_good]
> Attributes = Author, Category
> ROptions Category = done, notdone

Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it in SVN revisoin 2193.

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        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie)-1)
            cookie[i++] = *p++;

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        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie) - 1)
            cookie[i++] = *p++;
        else
            break;

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        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie)-1)
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Login user = user1, user2, user3, user4, user5

Deny New = user4, user5
Deny Reply = user4, user5
Deny Duplicate = user4, user5
Deny Edit = user4, user5
Deny Delete = user4, user5
Deny Select = user4, user5
Deny CSV Import = user4, user5

Sorry to bother you. I could see in past Forum entries that the question of  "Simple Math" has come up before, although the answers were not all that simple.

Can you do simple math (i.e. attribute A + attribute B = attribute C) in ELOG ?

Thank you for putting up with my questions.

Mike

No, you can't. The only way is to export a logbook to CSV, then import it in a spreadsheet program, then do the math there. 

 You can pass numerical attributes to an external command via "Execute new =...".  This external command can then do the math and pass the result _back_ to the logbook either as a new entry or as an edit with the command-line client "elog".

For example, given a new entry with (numerical) attributes A and B, if you have

Execute new = add_them.pl $A $B $message id

in your elog.cfg file, then $A and $B will be passed to the add_them.pl perl script.  Now have the perl script (or bc, or whatever you want to use) do the appropriate math and submit the result.  For example, your perl script might include

$C=$A+$B

$D=$A*$B

elog -a C=$C ... -e "$message id" "Sum as edit"

elog -a D=$D ... "Product as new entry"

How do you allow users to change password for a given logbook when the user keeps getting prompted for admin password to enter the change password feature?

I have Allow password change = 1 set global and at each logbook hoping that would work.

It allows them to change the password when and only when the user gets past the admin login when clicking CONFIG.

help

 Thats what we get for having two people working on the install and configuration.  LOL

When first creating and setting up the configs, we had  Admin Password = xxxxx  entered in each logbook config.  Once we created a password list we no longer needed that entry.

This was why each user who had login credentials was being asked to provide the admin password when trying to change their password. 

I didn't get your point completely, so is this issue now resolved? 

 Yes we had listed within each individual logbook config "Admin Password = xxxx".  this was causing the admin login prompt when users wanted to change their own passwords.  The "Admin Password =xxxxx" cannot reside on each logbook config when you use a password list and allow users to change their passwords.

i cannot view images in elog, either as attachments or as icons,

safari 3.2.1 mac os x 10.5.6

Thank you

David

Can you give me some more information? Can you see attachments in the Demo Logbook like here ? What about other browsers? Can you try to start elogd without keep-alives (using the "-k" flag)?

 Hi. I have a same problem... It works well with other browsers, like firefox and internet explorer, but not with safari (with and without keep-alives). 

The demo logbook in the link works fine with safari, though. 

Thanks.

Tsuguo

Thanks for reporting this bug. I finally found the reason and fixed it in revision 2191. I made a new release 2.7.6 which contains all the collected bug fixes from the last few months.

When I try to set

Protect Selection page = 1

in the config file elog crashes. Attached is my config file.

elog 2.7.5 built Apr  8 2009, 16:52:07 revision 130

Actually your combination of "bottom text" with "protect selection page" caused the trouble. If fixed the bug in revision 2189.