Wildcards are not implemented for that purpose. But a "Allow New = admin1, admin2" implicitly denies this command for all other users, I guess that's what you want. There is also the possibility to use "Guest Menu Commands" to allow everybody to read entries, but only logged in users to write and modify them.

I tried it in a global group configuration

[global monitoring]
Allow Edit = admin1, admin2
Allow New = admin1

But I as admin2 am still able to create new entries in the corresponding log books.

Is this configuration only for logbooks?

 I just tried myself with following config:

[global]
port = 8080
password file = passwd
Allow New = joe

[demo1]
Theme = default
Attributes = Author, Subject

and it jus worked fine. When I'm not logged on as "joe", the "New" command even does not appear. If you would have supplied your correct ELOG version, I could have checked if you have an old version. In that case you could upgrade.

Hi,

I've set up my ELOG configuration to display one summary line in the list view. However, a word from the next line creeps in from time to time. You can see this in my logbook - look at the 'Text' column for entries 805, 802 and 800 for instance. The word 'Shift' is from the second line of the entry, but it has been added to the summary text for some reason. Any ideas how I can fix this?

ben

 Your problem comes from the fact that you probably did not enter the HTML text body with the build-in editor, but copy-and-pasted it from somewhere else. ELOG determines the end of a line by looking at the line-feed character (\n), and your HTML text does sometimes not contain this character at the end, but only the HTML paragraph tag (</p>). I added some code in SVN revision 2131 to look also for the HTML tags properly, so if you upgrade to that version, it should be fine for you.

Running on windows server 2003.

Mysteriously from time to time i find ELOG has crashed and i must restart it.

Event log shows:

This has occurred twice so far in the month or less elog has been running.  The platform is stable and i have no other issues or negative events besides incorrect ASP calls here and there.  Thanks.

Faulting application elogd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module elogd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x0004b9c3.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 Unfortunately this is not enough information for me to conclude anything. You need to be able to reproduce the crash, then tell me exactly how you did it, so that I can reproduce it. Then I have a chance to fix it.

I have a muliple entry field, which is defined by MOptions, which allows you to make multiple selections into one field.

My problem is that when I try to select this option from the Quick filter menu option, it brings back no entries.

When I use the search option this works fine. Any ideas on where I go from here?

Thanks,

Paul

Recently I fixed some issues with MOptions. Please update to version 2.7.5.

 Many thanks, the latest version addresses this problem.

It is possible that the Move to... and Copy to... commands can be configured so that when they operate on a message that is part of a thread, that only that message will be moved, instead of the whole thread?

 This has not been implemented on purpose. Assume you have a thread with

A

    B

       C

So A links to B, B links back to A and so on. If you would move now B into another logbook, A and C would point to an entry which does not exist any more. Furthermore, C may contain some sentences which are a reply to something which has been said in B. So even if the "Move To" mechanism would re-link A to C and C to A, the entry C would maybe make no sense any more if B is missing. That's why you only can move threads as a whole. If you want to move individual messages, don't use replies. You can actually disable the reply command in the configuration file.

How do I set a default list option?
 I have an attribute called Active with options yes, no
When I do a list I want to see just the records having yes.
When required, the quick filter allows me to see records with option = no or all the records.
Thanks

 There is a trick. Use

Start page = ?Active=yes

and use a quick filter on "Active". This will always start with a list where Active=yes.

I am using Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition.  It is up-to-date and a full legal version installed from a geniune MS disk (to put that notion out the way).  I host a variety of webpages from this server through IIS6.0.

I am having an issue after installation of the ELOG software.  I grabbed the newest version from this website and ran the executable.  It installed fine (or appeared to do so).

Upon starting the ELOG server I receive the following error:

elogd.exe - Unable to Locate Component

This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.  Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

The file in question is part of an ancient Visual C distributeable.  This distributeable for my purposes no longer appears to be available (as I am on .net 3.5).  I am unsure of downloading the older runtime libraries from sites that are not microsoft's.  I am curious as to how I could go about making elog execute.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you!

 I didn't realize that MSCVR71.dll is kind of outphased. I will add it to future distributions. For the moment, you can download it from the elog server directly.

 Thank ya much.  Worked perfectly.  For others with this issue, download that linked file to your c:\windows\system32\ folder. 

Is there any way to send email notification of only the message and not the attachment. We get entries consisting of 10 MBs sometimes, and we would like to send only the message and not the attachment in the email notification. I tried restricting postfix to 1MB and using Email Format = 111 but with no success.

Thanks

sam

You have to use 

Email Format = 47

to remove the attachments. The encoding is decimal, not binary, so you have to do 1+2+4+8+32.

 Dear Stefan,

I tried Email Format =47 . still am having problems.

With Postfix limitation of 1MB elog is giving error message of 'Error sending Email via "<domain name>": 5.3.4 Error: message file too big

Without Postfix limitation, its sending email with the attachment.

Thanks

 I guess you are modifying the wrong elogd.cfg file. Note that you have to send a HUP signal after you changed elgod.cfg for the daemon to re-read the file. Try modifying something else (like adding a new attribute) and see if the daemon sees the change.

 Adding a new attribute is working fine... Has it to do with the elog 2.6.3 version and also I downloaded from ubuntu's synaptic package.. Will the latest release of elog solves this problem???

I don't remember exactly when this feature was added, but it would well be that it was after 2.6.3, so upgrading would help. 

 Thanks Stefan. Now I have installed 2.7.4 and the problem is solved. but am having another problem. Elog is giving the same error message if the logbook has more than 5 subscribers for email notification. Upto 5 subscribers it works fine. I am sure its not postfix problem as I am able to send to more than 5 addresses in pine.

 There is no limitation with 5 addresses in elog. What you can do however is to turn on debugging and watch the communication between elog and your SMTP server. To do so, start elogd interactively with the "-v" flag (='verbose'), send an message and watch the output. Maybe your SMTP server sends some error code to elogd.