Re: configuration of rss feeds, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Apr 25 17:19:27 2008
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| W.Koster wrote: |
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Have you tried the "RSS Title" option? |
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Re: Increment a field automatically on a new thread vs every entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sat Apr 26 09:26:53 2008
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| Chuck Brost wrote: |
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Ok, nevermind that one, Dumb Question I think, now that I have figured out that the field I was concerned with does not increment in a reply already. So.. that only leaves my one question, is there somewhere that I can change the text, not the action, on the menu so that I can do a reply, but have the link list as something like "New Item".?
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Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. |
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Re: scrollable text section only when viewing a log entry, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Apr 28 08:00:18 2008
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| Bill Pier wrote: |
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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| Bill Pier wrote: |
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Is there a way, option, feature to setup the text section only to be scrollable when viewing a log entry, such that the header (meta info) section stays fixed?
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Unfortunately no.
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Well, I tinkered a bit with a journal entry display page and found that without having to suggest the flavor-of-the-month web design mantra of "replace table layout with CSS only", just a few CSS tweaks can enable exactly what I am desiring.
For your consideration, here are the tweaks I made to get a fixed header and footer section with a scrollable journal entry section in the middle:
- moved the journal entry content and footer line (elog version info) out of the layout table structure, into their own div sections;
- in the style sheet, added attribute "position:fixed" to the "frame table" section;
- in the style sheet, added attribute sections for journal entry content and footer div sections:
- #content: overflow:auto;position:fixed;top:230px;bottom:30px;width:100%;
- #footer: text-align:center;bottom:0;position:fixed;width:100%;
Now as I'm not a web designer by trade and not intimately familiar with CSS nuances, I used the time honored method of documentation lookup with trial and error.
In any case, it worked and displays exactly the way I wanted; please do consider this for a future elog release.
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Apparently you downloaded an ELOG page and modified it manually. Can you send me the modified page, it then would be easier for me to implement it (I can shorten "my" trial and error phase..) |
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Re: Mass postings, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon May 5 08:44:03 2008
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| mike cianci wrote: |
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I am setting this up as instrument log in a multi-hospital system, where there will be multiple instruments, in multiple departments, at multiple facilities.
I am using the "Top Group" function to keep the books separate so operators from one instrument/department/facility don't contaminate another instrument/department/facility's logbook.
What I am wondering is there someway to set it up so that a system wide manager could post a message to 5 individual logbooks for 5 identical instruments at 5 different locations all at once (one ELOG server)?
I hope this made sense. Thank you for your help.
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Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. You would have to use the menu command "copy to" and enable it for the admin user. Then you create your entry, and click on "copy to" once for each location you want to copy this entry. |
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Re: Extending attribute list, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon May 5 08:51:10 2008
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Hello everyone, I am new to the forum.
I currently have an attribute which is a list. From this drop down menu, I can only access around 100 options (ELog restriction I think). How can I extend my drop down list to say 200?
Example:
Attributes = RB
Options RB = a, b, c, ...,etc.
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The number of 100 options is defined in elogd.c with
#define MAX_N_LIST 100
You could try to increase this to 200, but I have no idea if you will hit some other memory limit then. So what about conditional attributes? You subdivide your list into several smaller lists, like
Attributes = Category, RB
Options Category = Cat1{1}, Cat2{2}
{1}Options RB = a,b,c,d...
{2}Options RB = e,f,g,h,...
this is then also easier to handle, as compared to select a value from a very long list.
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Re: Extending attribute list, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue May 6 15:17:52 2008
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| Paul O'Shaughnessy wrote: |
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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| Paul O'Shaughnessy wrote: |
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Hello everyone, I am new to the forum.
I currently have an attribute which is a list. From this drop down menu, I can only access around 100 options (ELog restriction I think). How can I extend my drop down list to say 200?
Example:
Attributes = RB
Options RB = a, b, c, ...,etc.
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The number of 100 options is defined in elogd.c with
#define MAX_N_LIST 100
You could try to increase this to 200, but I have no idea if you will hit some other memory limit then. So what about conditional attributes? You subdivide your list into several smaller lists, like
Attributes = Category, RB
Options Category = Cat1{1}, Cat2{2}
{1}Options RB = a,b,c,d...
{2}Options RB = e,f,g,h,...
this is then also easier to handle, as compared to select a value from a very long list.
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Stefan,
Thanks for that advice. I have made that change to the elogd.c file, but the only problem I don't know how to compile Elog to make that change take effect. I did the stop and restart of the elog service in windows, but that made no difference. How do I compile ELog? Sorry for my ignorance, but I am fairly new to Elog.
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You need a C compiler to compile Elog under Windows. If you don't have one, I would suggest to follow the advice to use conditional attributes. This does not require a recompilation of Elog. |
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Re: any support of encrypted logfiles?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue May 6 21:47:32 2008
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| Bill Pier wrote: |
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I'm sure this topic has been visited previously, but a search of this forum didn't show any results.
Is there are support or already proven method of encrypting the logfiles that Elog serves up?
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There is no native support for encryption inside ELOG, but you can use some external tool to achieve encryption. You can for example use TrueCrypt to mount a virtual encrypted drive, where you store your log files. |
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Re: Extending attribute list, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed May 7 19:55:30 2008
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I can get my hand on a C compiler. What the process involved?
Sorry, but teaching you how to compile C programs is beyond the scope of this forum. Please buy a book for that. Most C compilers also comes with some decent documentation. You might try gcc under cygwin or Visual C++. |
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