hi there,

Is it possible to attach a default value for a radio button when submitting a new form/record, for example: 
I now have an item "Confirmed" Yes/No, and I want the "no" option to be selected by default when a new form/record is created.
Does anyone know how to arrange this?

Thanks in advance!

RJ

You need something along these lines:

Attributes = ..., Confirmed
Options Confirmed = boolean
Preset Confirmed = 1 

Attributes = ..., Confirmed
Options Confirmed = boolean
Preset Confirmed = 1 

 Good Morning Stefan,

This was very helpful, it works as aspected! Thank you :-)

With regards, Robert-Jan.

Is it possiblet to restrict a field so that when a new record is added, whatever the user types is automatically converted to lower case?

Thanks!

No, this is not possible. 

Hello,

i have problems with importing csv files. What i want to do is the following:

Import a list of log entries from a csv file with another date like the actual date

I tried to do this but the only thing which happend was that all the entries have the actual date in elog. Then i created a seperate Date column in the csv file an tried to import this.

It worked but in the default date column i have the import date and in a second date column i have the date from the csv file.

Is there a chance to get the csv column imported in the standard Date field? 

Or is there a possibility to hide/supress the default date field and only display the imported date field?

Thanks

Michael

Importing dates from CSV files was not implemented for a good reason: There are dozens of date formats (such as "1/22/09", "Jan 1 2009", "Mon 1 January '09") and it is almost impossible to handle all formats. I changed now the code to catch at least some formats, such as the internal RFC2822 compliant date which is also used internall by elog. An example of this format is "Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:26:00". This date format will also be used if you export a logbook via a CSV file. Another format I added is "1/22/09". So give a try to the new code (I made an intermediate release for windows V2.7.5-3) and see if it works for you.

Hello, I'm having problems with e-mail notifications.

When I try submitting a new post, I get the following error:

Error sending Email via "smtp.glocalnet.net"

The error message doesn't give a lot of hints...

My config file contains the following lines:

[global]
SMTP host = smtp.glocalnet.net
SMTP username = rhj764h@tninet.se
SMTP Password = xxx

...

[BugZ]

...

Email All = somebody@gmail.com
Use Email From = theproject@kato.homelinux.org

The password was created by invoking elogd with the -t option containing the true password. I've tried enter the correct password manually in the config, but the error message is the same.

Below follows a cut&paste of the console output when invoking with the -v option (addresses manually edited to avoid spam):

Email ALL to somebody@gmail.com

timezone: -3600, offset: 3600


Email from theproject@kato.homelinux.org to somebody@gmail.com, SMTP host smtp
.glocalnet.net:
220 mta3.glocalnet.net ESMTP Service ready
EHLO kato.homelinux.org
250-mta3.glocalnet.net
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-HELP
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-X-CP-DELIVER-AFTER
250-DELIVERBY 300
250 SIZE
==== Return ================================
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.6.3-1762
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=60, max=10
Location: http://kato.homelinux.org/elog-tinker/BugZ/6?error=Error+sending+Email
+via+<i>"smtp.glocalnet.net"</i>
Content-Length: 20

I can't make any sense of this. Please advise.

Regards

/Michael Ambrus

An update:

I got rid of the version from the Ubuntu repo and installed the latest source release instead (2.7.5-2130).

The error is now a little bit different:

Error sending Email via "smtp.glocalnet.net": Syntax error in parameters or arguments to MAIL command

A snippet from the console output:

250-DELIVERBY 300
250 SIZE
AUTH LOGIN
`±è·    ♦Username:
cmhqNzY0aEB0bmluZXQuc2U=
Password:
ajh6N2E4
235 LOGIN authentication successful
MAIL FROM: theproject@kato.homelinux.org
501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments to MAIL command
==== Return ================================

BR /Michael

I think I found out what the problem was and e-mail notification now works.

Apparently 'MAIL FROM' syntax used by my ISP expects the address to be within <>.

Adding those in the config file fixes the problem:

Use Email From = <user@domain>

Note that the documentation indicates that the brackets should not be there and I'm not sure if this is a bug or not yet. According to this link the brackets should be there but I think to be consistent with other e-mail related attributes in the config file, they should be added by ELOG.

The 'Email' attibute however seems to work fine without the brackests. I.e.

Email All = user@doman

is OK.

I'm not very familiar with SMTP but I was fiddling around with this some time ago setting up a postfix MT. I eventually succeeded with my ISP, but not with gmail's SMTP. Apperently there are differences with the log-in procedure.

Maybe various differences in login procedure could be handled by allowing ELOG to optionally to use an external program like mailto to handle it's mailing?

SMTP external = 0|1

I think I understand (and actually appreciate) the policy of not depending on external programs. Just a suggestion...

BR

/Michael

I added some code to elogd which always places <> around the "MAIL FROM:" in the SMTP communication. So I hope that problem should be solved from now on. Thank you for your detailed analysis and your hints. 

Having "Top group" in a config-file for Windows will cause:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: eudr6j03j:8084
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/20
08120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: sv-se,sv;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: unm=mambrus; upwd=U2lzc2kx; urem=0
Cache-Control: max-age=0


Internal error, no valid header!

Removing "top group" makes elogd.exe work. The error is repeatable and the same config file works on the same version of Elog on Linux. Elog was compiled with Cygwin.

Please supply your full configuration file for error analysis. 

 File attached. SMTP password removed, otherwise as original.

 Windows binaries took care of this problem as with Message ID: 66157.

Problem solved, thanks!

• A bug which has been fixed in meantime. If you can give a try to 2.6.2-1750 or so that could help. I'm not sure if this version is already in the Debian distribution since I'm not the maintainer there.
  
• A corrupted log file. If one of the YYMMDDa.log file get some garbage (maybe due to hard disk problems etc.) the elogd server can run into an infinite loop. In that case examine all log files to see if there is anything wrong. If so, edit it manually and restart elogd.
  
• Some not yet found bug. One never can exclude this of course, but at this forum I have elogd running under similar conditions like you, and it runs for months without problems.
  

Hello,

   Thank you for such a great software package!

   I would like to ask how I can display the Revisions field in the single entry view but not in the list view. I followed the FAQ instructions and added the following to my elodg.cfg:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This configuration shows the Revisions field in both the list view and the single entry view. This was a problem because certain entries are changed a lot so they took up a lot of horizontal space in the list view. I tried to remove the Revisions field in the list view but keep them in the single entry view with the following:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
   Show Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This took the Revisions field out of the list view and also the single entry view. However, the fields that were shown in the single entry view ended up as Author, Type, Category, Subject, Author (again).

   The last attempt were with the following configuration lines:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
   Show Attributes = Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This showed Author, Type, Category, Subject in the list view but only the Author field in the single entry view.

   How can I configure Elog to show the Revisions field in the single entry view but no the list view?

Thanks,
   - Dan

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Show Attributes = Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
Show Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Show Attributes = Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

 I use Google Chrome for web browsing these days..  I've had serious issues with surfing some of the pages of our ELOG V2.7.5-2130 site.  For instance, I can surf directly to our url to create a new entry (http://changelog.company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/?cmd=New) and see the page just fine.  But when I click on the header to go back to the main page (http://changelog.company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/) I end up with this error:

This webpage is not available.

But when I visit the DEMO elog site (http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Linux%20Demo/) it pulls right up just fine..  My site also works in IE without problems.

Any ideas?  I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it..

> Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.

I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
to directly by chrome?

-- rouilj

> > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> 
> I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> to directly by chrome?
> 
> -- rouilj

So, is your kubuntu elog server internal only, as well?  My elog server on windows is an internal only server.. 
and there is no proxy or firewall between chrome and the elog server.. I didn't set it up, but I think elogd runs 
it's own web service.. probably apache within the win32 port.

It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.

I ran wireshark to capture what happens at the ethernet level, and it seems that the HTTP response doesn't come 
through properly.  My response packets to the TCP response packets seems to be:

"Acknowledgment number: Broken TCP. The acknowledge field is nonzero while the ACK flag is not set"
My system never receives enough TCP packets to reassemble it to a properly formatted HTTP response.


The stream goes like this:
GET /Company+IT+Change+Log/ HTTP/1.1 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
Chrome/1.0.154.42 Safari/525.19 
Referer: http://changelog.Company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/?cmd=New 
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch 
Cookie: unm=Name; upwd=amhpbGoijoihbmQ=; urem=1 
Accept-Language: en-US,en 
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,*,utf-8 
Host: changelog.Company.com 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
 
HTTP/1.1 200 Document follows 
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.7.5-2130 
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 
Set-Cookie: elmode=Summary; path=/Company+IT+Change+Log; expires=Tuesday, 09-Jun-20 12:31:45 GMT; 
 path=/Company+IT+Change+Log; 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
Keep-Alive: timeout=60, max=10 
Pragma: no-cache 
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT 
Content-Length: 24455 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG Company IT Change Log</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png" type="image/png" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ELOG Company IT Change Log" href="elog.rdf" />
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="GET" action=".">

<table class="frame" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><!-- show_standard_title -->

<tr><td class="tabs">
<span class="sltab"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/" title="Company 
TI">Company&nbsp;IT&nbsp;Change&nbsp;Log</a></span>
</td></tr>

<tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td class="title1">&nbsp;&nbsp;Company TI, Page 1 of 272&nbsp;</td>
<td class="title2">Logged in as "My Name"</td>
<td class="title3"><img border=0 src="elog.png" alt="ELOG logo" title="ELOG logo"></td>
</tr></table></td></tr>

<tr><td class="menuframe"><span class="menu1">
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<tr><td class="menuframe">
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<tr>
<td class="menu2a">
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mode=threaded">Threaded</a>&nbsp;</td>
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<a href="?new_entries=1"><img align="middle" border="0" src="new_entry.png" alt="Show only new entries" 
title="Show only new entries"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<select title="Select period" name=last 
onChange="document.form1.submit()">
<option value="_all_">-- All entries --
<option  value=1>Last day
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</select>
<select title="Select Type" name="Type" onChange="document.form1.submit()">
<option value="_all_">-- Type --
<option value="^Hardware$">Hardware
<option value="^Software$">Software
<option value="^Database$">Database
<option value="^Network$">Network
<option value="^NGS Applications$">NGS Applications
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</select> 
<noscript>
<input type=submit value="Search">
</noscript>
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<tr><td class="menuframe"><span class="menu3">
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<tr><td><table class="listframe" width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=ID">ID</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Date">Date</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Author">Author</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Author+Email">Author Email</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Type">Type</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Category">Category</a></th>
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<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Reason+for+Change">Reason for Change</a></th>
<th class="listtitle">Text</th>
<th class="listtitle"><img src="attachment.png" alt="Attachments" title="Attachments"</th></tr>

<tr><td class="list2">
<a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">&nbsp;&nbsp;5431&nbsp;&nbsp;</a>
</td>

<td class="list2" nowrap><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">1/9/2009 4:40:54 PM</a></td>
<td class="list2"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Gary</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"><a href="gmercier@Company.com">gmercier@Company.com</a></a></td><td 
class="list2"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Applications</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Patch - Hotfix</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">PRN 18718 Update</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"></a>&nbsp;</td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"></a>&nbsp;</td><td class="summary">A</td>
<td class="listatt">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><tr><td class="list1">
<a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">&nbsp;&nbsp;5430&nbsp;&nbsp;</a>
</td>

<td class="list1" nowrap><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">1/9/2009 4:37:01 PM</a></td>
<td class="list1"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">Gary</a></td><td class="list1"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430"><a href="gary@compan


Then the stream just aborts, apparently.

> > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > 
> > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > to directly by chrome?
>
> It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.

I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.

So build a new elogd and you should be all set.

- rouilj

> > > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > > 
> > > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > > to directly by chrome?
> >
> > It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> > that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> > URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.
> 
> I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
> was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.
> 
> So build a new elogd and you should be all set.
> 
> - rouilj

Thanks.  I'll have to wait for someone else to build the win32 binary, as I'm not set up to compile it myself.

> > > > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > > > 
> > > > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > > > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > > > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > > > to directly by chrome?
> > >
> > > It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> > > that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> > > URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.
> > 
> > I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
> > was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.
> > 
> > So build a new elogd and you should be all set.
> > 
> > - rouilj
> 
> Thanks.  I'll have to wait for someone else to build the win32 binary, as I'm not set up to compile it myself.

I installed the latest Windows build (didn't realize I missed a build in November), and it now works in Chrome.  Thanks!