Arghhhh! Guess how many people asked me for the autosave feature! I worked really hard on it (including an airplane flight to Japan!), not the next guy comes "can we disable that feature?". 

I agree that this feature has many side effects, and I have to adress one by one, but in the end the community will benefit. Think of starting a draft at one computer, and finishing at another one. Lazarus won't help you there.

Nevertheless , I added a "Save drafts" which you can set to zero. But I would rather prefer if people tell me their problems, and I fix them, instead of siletnly just disabling this feature and keeping the bugs there unresolved.

Oups, now I feel almost a little bit sorry for asking    But thank you anyway!!!

You should see it that way: there are millions of possible applications for a smart electronic logbook like ELOG, and most possible combinations of flags and options will make sense for some of them

Hi Stefan,

I am happy to see that you include the webserver authentication.
So I can now login at some other page and then access elog.
However, I would also need some means of logging out some where else.

For this I propose a new Configuration option "Logout to page" which redirects to another page if set and "Logout to main" is 0.

See the attached patch (against git HEAD)

Does this make sense to you ?

Christof

PS: Many thanks for the autosave mode,  I already used it ;-)
 

Hi Stefan,

here is a draft of how you could describe the webserver authentication in your docs.

T/Christof

Hi Stefan,

When we use Webserver authentication, we have the correct username already in the variable http_user.

The old way of copying this http_user to "user" is wrong since we don't use the size of http_user.

Instead, just encode the http_user variable directly.

See attached patch against git HEAD.

Christof

I came accross the admin guide and I was reading / searching for a way to sync logbooks across sites...
elogd mention "-m" and "-M" ... not elog but elogd... with that description :
synchronize logbook(s) with remote server

Does it sync all logbooks ? is there any examples somewhere or advice ?

Thanks :)

> I came accross the admin guide and I was reading / searching for a way to sync logbooks across sites...
> elogd mention "-m" and "-M" ... not elog but elogd... with that description :
> synchronize logbook(s) with remote server

If you would have followed the shown link to the "elogd.cfg syntax page", you would have found the chapter Mirroring:
https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#mirroring

> Does it sync all logbooks ? 

Not necessarily, but that is the default.

> is there any examples somewhere or advice ?

See above: you'll find examples under #mirroring

> Thanks :)

You're welcome.

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