Shell substitution, especially interesting for running online experiments, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Dec 20 09:18:19 2005
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Shell substitution has been introduced in an experimental state of the current SVN version of ELOG. It woks such that the subsititution list can contain
[B]$shell(<argument>)[/B] commands. The [B]<argument>[/B] is passed to the shell of the operating system and the result is captured and subsituted. This
is handy for online experiments, where one wants to pass information automatically to elog. Assume that there is a file /tmp/runnumber containing the current |
Howto insert screen dumps into an elog entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Dec 20 11:17:17 2005 
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With the new ELCode tags, one can insert screen dumps pretty easy into elog entries. I personally use HoverSnap 0.8 under Windows, there are similar tools
under Linux. HoverSnap puts a "Capture.jpg" file in a selectable directoy when you press [B]PrintScreen[/B], then you can instert this file with the [IMG]elog:1556/1[/IMG]
button. Here is such a screendump example:
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Re: duplicate & presets, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 21 20:24:14 2005
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> I'm (mis)using elog as a database. I like the fact that I can have presets for fields, but I also like the fact
> that I can make a duplicate of an entry. Now when I make a duplicate, all the fields get overwritten with the
> preset-value. Is there a way to get the preset-values only on entering a NEW reord and NOT on a duplicate ?
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Re: 2.6.0-bata5, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 21 20:39:52 2005
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[quote="Carl Shirey"]Do you have 2.6.0-bata5 for linux as setup for RPM install. I was able to locate the version for windows but not for linux.
Thanks for your help.[/quote]
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Re: Attachments in duplicated entries, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 21 20:54:11 2005
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[quote="Bertram Metz"]The [B]duplicate[/B] command duplicates the entry text itself, but it does not duplicate attachments. If attachments in a duplicated
entry are deleted, the original attachment files are deleted as well and cannot be accessed anymore within the original entry.
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Re: Proxy question, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 21 20:59:26 2005
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> I'm trying to run elog 2.6.0-beta4 under Apache 2.0. I follow the directions, and everything works fine, so my
> elog runs as
>
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Re: Compile on Windows?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Dec 22 08:53:43 2005
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[quote="Mike"]What version of Visual Studio do you use for compile Elog on windows.
I have downloaded the Tar from svn and am having some errors, but then I've go VS.Net 2003. I wondering if this was done with 6.0?[/quote]
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Re: New docs?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Dec 22 08:58:25 2005
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[quote="PJ Meyer"]Just looked at change log for 2.6
was wondering where the documentation for the new additions/changes is/are.[/quote]
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