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  65901   Thu Jun 5 01:38:17 2008 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@cosmology.berkeley.eduQuestionAlllatestRe: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:
Do you mean '$entry time', or did you create a new parameter? (I don't see $entry date in the elogd.cfg reference)


Yes, of course I mean '$entry time', sorry for the misspelling.


Well, we really appreciate the way you keep adding features and making improvements. I thought you might have slipped a new one in!
  65903   Thu Jun 5 08:17:59 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestAll Re: Make Email All = <list> override Suppress Email checkbox

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Hmm. Is there some way to set up a private RSS feed for me only?

If not, I would humbly ask that you add an option. I don't want to generate unnecessary email to users, but I need to always be notified for some logbooks. I'm responsible for some hardware on our project and I want to know any time someone reports a problem. The best solution is to still let users decide whether they want to subscribe to logbooks, and whether entry notification should be suppressed or not, but also have an admin override privilege. There could be a disclaimer "admin is automatically notified of all entries" at the top of the edit page.

If this can be done with a private RSS feed to me only, then that's fine. I still don't use or understand RSS feeds very well, sorry. I'd rather all users did not have the option to be alerted to every new entry, when email suppression is enabled. That would be contradictory, I think.

 Thanks for listening!

The RSS feed is private by default. You install a client (like Sharp Reader under Windows). It stays in the icon tray and periodically checks for new ELOG entries. If there is one, it pops up a window similar to your email client. You click on it, and it shows all entries like this:

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 All you have to do is to enter the URL of the ELOG logook. Just add "elog.rdf" to the URL of the logbook as you would access it from your browser.

Here is the pop-up I got from writing just this entry:

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  65904   Thu Jun 5 08:25:11 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequest  Re: thumbnails in list and entry views?

Dennis Seitz wrote:

It would be very cool to be able to select Full from the view menu and then scroll rapidly through all entries looking for that high res photo of a SQUID chip I took two months ago. Presently the photos are all full size so the Full view is slow to load and it takes a lot of scrolling to navigate. Can you implement thumbnails in Full view, and also in the single entry view? Clicking on the thumbnail should, of course, open the full size image.

For now, I'm just using the wysiwyg html entry format and dropping images into the entry, then right-clicking to set a small image size. Clicking on the image gives me a new window with the full size image, which works great.

I hope you don't mind the barrage of suggestions, and thanks again.

Thumbnail display in "full view" is implemented already. Let's take this entry: I insert a picture and scale it down via the "smaller" button:

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Now if you display this forum in full view, the image is still shown as a thumbnail, which you are able to click in order to get the full resolution display. I don't know what is different in your case, maybe you are using an oder version of ELOG?

  65905   Fri Jun 6 11:24:49 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion 2.7.3-2104Re: Conditional Attributes Boolean?

Grant Jeffcote wrote:
After searching the manual and not finding (missing?) the answer is it possible to add conditional statements to a Boolean attribute? I would like a tick box to be able to trigger an event when submitted.


Conditions are not possible with boolean attributes. You have to define the attribute as a list like

Attributes = ..., Flag, ...
Options Flag = Yes{0}, No{1}

{0} ...

{1} ...
  65906   Fri Jun 6 11:26:37 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion  Re: Is there a way to indicate when an entry has been edited?

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 You've probably seen my other posts on this subject.

I want to be able to re-edit some entries but I need some way to know the dates entries were re-edited.

Am I just approaching this the wrong way? Should I disable re-editing of entries and use threads to follow changes by posting replies to an entry?

The only problem with that is that if I make a mistake I will have to submit a new entry to fix it. 

Please read the FAQ

  65908   Sat Jun 7 11:10:48 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows Re: multi-headings

parrish wrote:

how can you have more than 1 heading like in this forum. Example is: Demo and Discusion and have diferent sub heading under each one?

So example if Demo is selected you get one group of tabs to select from and if Discussion is selected you get a different second set of tabs to choise from.

Thanks in adavance

You can do this by defining groups. For this forum I did

Group Demo = Linux Demo, Database
Group Discussion = Forum, Config Examples, Contributions, Vulnerabilities

where each name on the right side of the equal sign is an individual logbook.

  65909   Mon Jun 9 15:57:15 2008 Reply Erik Iversoneiverson@ornl.govQuestionWindows Re: Mass postings

Stefan Ritt wrote:

mike cianci wrote:

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.

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.

 

I found a way to get this to work.  Define a "Messages" logbook for the messages to be broadcast.  None of the user installations need access to it. Use "Execute new = " to execute a script calling the elog command line client passing the message on to each target logbook.  Example:

--- elogd.cfg snippet begin ---

[Messages]

...

Execute new = mass_post.sh $text &

--- elogd.cfg snippet end ---

--- mass_post.sh begin ---

#!/bin/sh

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 1" $@

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 2" $@

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 3" $@

--- mass_post.sh end ---

The $@ expands to all the command line arguments, so the $text field, with all its spaces, gets passed correctly.  Sorry I showed you the example in bash/linux rather than in Windows, but I don't know Windows real well - you're better off translating into it yourself than my untested attempts.  The one thing I can tell you is that the "Execute new" command must include the "background fork".  In Linux this is provided by the & at the end of the line. In windows you'll need to use

Execute new = start "dummy" /min mass_post.bat

to background the process.  This is ESSENTIAL.  Without backgrounding the batch file, the elogd server will go into an infinite loop.  The parent process will wait for the child process to exit before continuing.  elogd is single-threaded, so the child process cannot start until the parent process has completed its current task (which is waiting for the child process to exit). 

You may need to tweak the above a little if you want to pass variable attributes to the script instead of defining them all in the script itself.

 

  65911   Mon Jun 23 12:40:12 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.3Re: Icon and Quick filter

Franck C wrote:

Hi,

I have defined a quick filter based on an icon attribute and it does not work: no result. I have defined something like your "forum elog" (with Icon comment ): in the quick filter, i see the comments (that a good thing) but whatever i'm selecting, i have no entry.

Is it a bug or i miss something in the configuration ?

I tried to reproduce your problem, but it worked fine for me. I used in elog.cfg:

[demo]
Attributes = Icon, Author, Type, Last Edit, Subject
IOptions Icon = icon1.gif, icon2.gif, icon3.gif, icon4.gif, icon5.gif, icon6.gif, icon7.gif, icon8.gif, icon12.gif, icon13.gif, icon14.gif
Quick filter = Icon

Then I entered two entries with different icons, and I selected the quick filter. It correctly showed me the entry with the icon I selected:

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