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icon5.gif   Hiding Comments on the Logbook Selection Page, posted by Adam Blandford on Tue Mar 3 11:30:01 2009 

Hi

I was just wondering if there was a way that the comments for a logbook could be set to be invisible on the Selection page but then displayed once a user has logged in to a particular logbook?

This is required for security purposes. I want a common login page which shows all logbooks, where the logbook names only have meaning for people who know them but then once logged in the comment provides additional information about that logbook.

Thanks

Adam

    icon2.gif   Re: Hiding Comments on the Logbook Selection Page, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 24 11:44:10 2009 

 

Adam Blandford wrote:

Hi

I was just wondering if there was a way that the comments for a logbook could be set to be invisible on the Selection page but then displayed once a user has logged in to a particular logbook?

This is required for security purposes. I want a common login page which shows all logbooks, where the logbook names only have meaning for people who know them but then once logged in the comment provides additional information about that logbook.

Thanks

Adam

 

Ok, I implemented a new option "Hide comments = 1" in SVN revision #2182, which will be included in the next release of elog.

icon5.gif   Find usage, posted by Mike Forster on Fri Mar 13 13:45:22 2009 

Hello Stefan and Elog fans,

Is there a way to find entries with the words program and error when then are not contiguous in the text?

Thanks,
--Mike

    icon2.gif   Re: Find usage, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 18 04:37:19 2009 

 

Mike Forster wrote:

Hello Stefan and Elog fans,

Is there a way to find entries with the words program and error when then are not contiguous in the text?

Thanks,
--Mike

 

Please have a look at

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66151

does this help? 

       icon2.gif   Re: Find usage, posted by Mike Forster on Wed Mar 18 15:40:17 2009 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Mike Forster wrote:

Hello Stefan and Elog fans,

Is there a way to find entries with the words program and error when then are not contiguous in the text?

Thanks,
--Mike

 

Please have a look at

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66151

does this help? 

 Hello Stefan,

I am looking for the same answer that Yoichi was looking for.  For instance, could the text keyword filtering be looped so that the first group of results is then filtered by the next keyword?

--Mike

          icon2.gif   Re: Find usage, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 24 10:43:02 2009 

 

Mike Forster wrote:

 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Mike Forster wrote:

Hello Stefan and Elog fans,

Is there a way to find entries with the words program and error when then are not contiguous in the text?

Thanks,
--Mike

 

Please have a look at

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66151

does this help? 

 

 Hello Stefan,

I am looking for the same answer that Yoichi was looking for.  For instance, could the text keyword filtering be looped so that the first group of results is then filtered by the next keyword?

--Mike

 

No, that's not possible unfortunately. 

icon6.gif   "Full" view formatting, posted by Erik Iverson on Thu Mar 19 02:50:16 2009 
I have a logbook I use to capture machine settings. There are many (~30) different attributes defined. I've defined the "Summary" view via "List display" in such a way that not all the attributes are displayed in the summary list, because there's no practical way to fit the 30 different attributes in 30 rows across the screen, and there's no need to have every attribute shown in the summary view. I would like to define something for the "Full" view that lets me put one (or more, but not all) attributes per line; much like the single-entry view does now, just with multiple entries. So a "Full" listing would look like

ID: 1
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

ID: 2
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

rather than
ID Attribute1 Attribute2 Attribute3
1 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
2 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks as always for a wonderful piece of software!
    icon2.gif   Re: "Full" view formatting, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 24 10:42:25 2009 

Erik Iverson wrote:
I have a logbook I use to capture machine settings. There are many (~30) different attributes defined. I've defined the "Summary" view via "List display" in such a way that not all the attributes are displayed in the summary list, because there's no practical way to fit the 30 different attributes in 30 rows across the screen, and there's no need to have every attribute shown in the summary view. I would like to define something for the "Full" view that lets me put one (or more, but not all) attributes per line; much like the single-entry view does now, just with multiple entries. So a "Full" listing would look like

ID: 1
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

ID: 2
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

rather than
ID Attribute1 Attribute2 Attribute3
1 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
2 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks as always for a wonderful piece of software!


This is not implemented, but I will consider it for a future version.
icon5.gif   Escape emoticons in ELCODE, posted by Gernot Buselmeier on Fri Mar 20 14:33:53 2009 

Hi,

I want to write a text like "John:Doe" in ELCODE. However the ":D" is converted to a LOL emoticon. I tried various ways to escape this. One solution I found was entering "John\:Doe". However, the upper-case D is converted to lower-case: the result reads "John:doe".

 

Thanks for an answer and many thanks for providing ELOG.

Gernot

    icon2.gif   Re: Escape emoticons in ELCODE, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 24 10:34:14 2009 

 

Gernot Buselmeier wrote:

Hi,

I want to write a text like "John:Doe" in ELCODE. However the ":D" is converted to a LOL emoticon. I tried various ways to escape this. One solution I found was entering "John\:Doe". However, the upper-case D is converted to lower-case: the result reads "John:doe".

 

Thanks for an answer and many thanks for providing ELOG.

Gernot

 

Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it in revision #2180. 

icon5.gif   Storing Elog database files in version control (CVS/SVN/GIT)?, posted by Brett Viren on Mon Mar 23 19:30:09 2009 
Hi,

Is it possible to store ELOG back-end database files in version control so as to synchronize multiple ELOG
instances?

Has anyone tried it? Any obvious show stoppers to such an approach?

Cheers,
-Brett.
    icon2.gif   Re: Storing Elog database files in version control (CVS/SVN/GIT)?, posted by Brett Viren on Mon Mar 23 22:30:44 2009 

Brett Viren wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to store ELOG back-end database files in version control so as to synchronize multiple ELOG
instances?

Has anyone tried it? Any obvious show stoppers to such an approach?

Cheers,
-Brett.


I asked this before learning about mirroring which sounds like a good thing if we can make it work with SSL.
    icon2.gif   Re: Storing Elog database files in version control (CVS/SVN/GIT)?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Mar 24 08:14:48 2009 

Brett Viren wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to store ELOG back-end database files in version control so as to synchronize multiple ELOG
instances?

Has anyone tried it? Any obvious show stoppers to such an approach?

Cheers,
-Brett.


I acknowledge that mirroring through SSL is highly requested, I will try to do my best to implement it. Doing it with version control on the back-end files is not such a good idea. After each synchronization you would have to restart the elogd servers, since they don't realize if the files got changed "under their feet". Furthermore, if you have changes on both sides on different entries for the same day, you have a conflict which you have to solve manually with an editor on the raw files. The elog synchronization works on the entry level, not on the file level. So if two different entries for the same day are changed on both servers, they are combined properly without conflict. Only if the same message got modified on both sides, elog reports a conflict and you have to choose one version or the other.
icon3.gif   Adding texts for each attachment, posted by Dongwook Jang on Mon Mar 16 22:33:23 2009 

Dear Stefan,

First of all, I appreciate that you made such a nice program. I've used elog for more than 5 years and it was wonderful experince to me and my research work was very productive with this.

I have a suggestion to you to improve this while I was using elog. If users can add texts or comments for each attachment, it will be great.

I am not sure if someone was already suggested this or it is already in your wish list.

Thank you.

Dongwook Jang

    icon2.gif   Re: Adding texts for each attachment, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Mar 16 22:53:22 2009 elog.png

 

Dongwook Jang wrote:

Dear Stefan,

First of all, I appreciate that you made such a nice program. I've used elog for more than 5 years and it was wonderful experince to me and my research work was very productive with this.

I have a suggestion to you to improve this while I was using elog. If users can add texts or comments for each attachment, it will be great.

I am not sure if someone was already suggested this or it is already in your wish list.

Thank you.

Dongwook Jang

 

Dear Dongwook,

no, this is not implemented and also was never requested. The way most people work is that images are included directly in the text, and the the text goes along with that.

So for example if I want to show you the ELOG logo, I put it here: elog.png 

If I want to add a comment for an attachment, I write it in the text and just refence the attachment with link. This way is more flexible that adding just a line of text to each attachment, since you can write several lines in the text, make a table etc. etc.

       icon2.gif   Re: Adding texts for each attachment, posted by Dongwook Jang on Tue Mar 17 02:05:08 2009 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Dongwook Jang wrote:

Dear Stefan,

First of all, I appreciate that you made such a nice program. I've used elog for more than 5 years and it was wonderful experince to me and my research work was very productive with this.

I have a suggestion to you to improve this while I was using elog. If users can add texts or comments for each attachment, it will be great.

I am not sure if someone was already suggested this or it is already in your wish list.

Thank you.

Dongwook Jang

 

Dear Dongwook,

no, this is not implemented and also was never requested. The way most people work is that images are included directly in the text, and the the text goes along with that.

So for example if I want to show you the ELOG logo, I put it here: elog.png 

If I want to add a comment for an attachment, I write it in the text and just refence the attachment with link. This way is more flexible that adding just a line of text to each attachment, since you can write several lines in the text, make a table etc. etc.

 

 

Dear Stefan,

Maybe I used elog with very inefficient way so far. The way you suggested requires putting figures somewhere else, right?

Elog saves attachments on the machine that elog is running. I want to store figures in elog.

The logo you showed above is stored in this entry?

Thank you.

Dongwook Jang

          icon2.gif   Re: Adding texts for each attachment, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 18 04:23:41 2009 
Dongwook Jang wrote:

Dear Stefan,

Maybe I used elog with very inefficient way so far. The way you suggested requires putting figures somewhere else, right?

Elog saves attachments on the machine that elog is running. I want to store figures in elog.

The logo you showed above is stored in this entry?

Thank you.

Dongwook Jang

If you embed an image (via the "insert image" button in the task bar) this image is stored as an attachment, but the actualy attachment is hidden and the image is shown in-line. Yes, it is stored on the server where elogd runs. 

 

icon5.gif   How ca I delete / hide the Elog Icon and Labels like ELOG V2.7.5-2175, posted by Heinzmann on Wed Mar 11 15:51:36 2009 

Hi Stephan,

How can I delete / hide the Elog Icon ELOG logo

and Labels like ELOG V2.7.5-2175 ?

Thanks,

Michael

 

    icon2.gif   Re: How ca I delete / hide the Elog Icon and Labels like ELOG V2.7.5-2175, posted by Heinzmann on Thu Mar 12 21:21:00 2009 

Heinzmann wrote:

Hi Stephan,

How can I delete / hide the Elog Icon ELOG logo

and Labels like ELOG V2.7.5-2175 ?

Thanks,

Michael

 

 Sorry,

found it:

 

Bottom text = <center>Hello</center>
Bottom text login = <center>Login Hello</center>

icon4.gif   Odd behaviour with gecko based browsers and reverse proxy., posted by Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik on Thu Mar 12 08:03:07 2009 
I have a really odd issue with elog...

My setup:

elogd.cfg:
[global]
port = 2109
SMTP host = localhost
Resource dir = /usr/share/elog
Logbook dir = /srv/www/elog
charset = UTF-8
Main Tab = main
URL = https://elog.codemages.net
Relative redirection = 1
Usr = www
Grp = www
Resolve host names = 0
Self register = 0 
Admin user = ruskie
SSL = 0
Login expiration = 20

[links]
Subdir = links
Theme = default
Comment = Link spam
Attributes = Author, Category, Link, Comment
Options Category = General, Law, IT, Odds, Linux
Required Attributes = Link, Comment
Page Title = ELOG - Link spam
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Category
Time format = %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M
Date format = %Y-%m-%d
Password file = links.pwd
Admin user = ruskie
RSS Title = $logbook $entry time :$Author :$Link :$Comment

[notes]
Subdir = notes
Theme = default
Comment = Various notes
Attributes = Category, Comment
Options Category = General, Law, IT, Odds, Linux
Required Attributes = Comment
Page Title = ELOG - Various notes
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Category
Time format = %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M
Date format = %Y-%m-%d
Password file = notes.pwd
Admin user = ruskie
RSS Title = $logbook $entry time :$Comment


lighttpd.conf:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "elog.*" {
  proxy.server = ( "" =>
                   ( "10.0.0.10" =>
                     (
                       "host" => "10.0.0.10",
                       "port" => 2109
                     )
                   )
                 )

}

If I access elog directly on 2109 I get no issues but when I use this configuration it takes minutes to access
any elog page at all. But the odd thing is this only happens when I'm using a gecko based browser(firefox,
xulrunner based etc...) if I use webkit-gtk or elinks all the pages load up with no noticable delay.

I have tried this on different computers, different configurations and so on... And always the same behaviour
when it comes to a gecko based browser. Elinks and webkit-gtk load up fine.

Marking this as Other so far. If anyone knows anything about running elog and lighttpd togheter please speak up.
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