This may be already answered somewhere around here, but I could not find it. 

Question: Is it possible to have a pull down will a sub menu.  Something like,

Entry 1

Entry 2 --> Entry 2a

                   Entry 2b

                   Entry 2c

Entry 3

Entry 4

Attributes = Author, Subject, Run, Type, Hardware, Software, 

Options Type = Announcement{1}, Shift_Summary{2}, Physics_Discussion{3}, Analysis{4}, Hardware{5}, Software{6}
Options Hardware = Computers, Cryostat/Vacuum, DAQ, Environment Sensors, Magnets
Options Software = Analysis/Simulations, Control/Measurement, Detector, Linux, MIDAS, Sequencer, Windows
Show Attributes = Author, Type, Subject
{5} Show Attributes = Author, Type, Subject, Hardware
{6} Show Attributes = Author, Type, Subject, Software

Have you tried in the "Find" page to set a start date, or select "Show last: Month". This shoudl speed up searching quit a bit.

I added a new optoin "Show last default = <days>", where one can pre-set the "Show last" drop-down box. I think this is a good idea, so now people can configure their elog to a certain default in this parameter. Of course all settings in the Find page are AND'ed together, so if one restricts the search to tha last week, but then looks for a date more in the past, the result will be zero by definition. The change is in the GIT repository. If you cannot recompile the code yourself, you have to wait for the next release.

This is a well known problem, but unfortunately it's a limitation of HTML and how web browsers work. If it would be easy to attach whole directories to HTML forms, it would be too easy to steal important files from your computer. So the HTML designers decided that each file hast to be confirmed manually, and that's why you have to click so often. There is no way ELOG could bypass this scheme.