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Thu Mar 2 23:32:25 2006 |
 | Steve Jones | steve.jones@freescale.com | Request | All | 2.6.1 | Top Groups and logbook directorys |
I am re-working our elog setup and am seriously looking at using the "Top Group" feature. What I like best is the ability to create [global] configurations for a group (or type) of logbook when I host multiple types on the same server. I also like being able to specify a different password file, etc.
A limitation that I run into is I would really like the actual directory names used for storing the logbooks for the different types to be identical - which isn't possible when all logbooks (regardless of context) exist at the same directory level. For example, I might have:
3 physical locations: ABC, DEF, GHI
For each location I want to maintain two *groups* of logbooks - CircuitTests and BoardTests. What I would like to end up with is:
- CircuitTests
----ABC
----DEF
----GHI
- BoardTests
----ABC
----DEF
----GHI
Under current elog this is not possble as far as I know. Since each logbook is a physical directory, each logbook requires a unique name. The concept of a named [global] area fills the bill for all things but it would be nifty if one could do:
[global circuittests]
Logbook dir = circuittestlogbooks
[global boardtests]
Logbook dir = boardtestlogbooks
I suppose the poorman's way of doing this is for each logbook to do the following:
[ABC]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/ABC
[DEF]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/DEF
[GHI]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/GHI
or something like that, but I was hopic for something a little more integrated - like creating the hierarchical stuff via the GUI. Anyway, this probably sounds like a major overhaul, which definitely wouldn't be worth it unless I have completely missed something glaringly obvious.
Thanks! |
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1745
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Fri Mar 3 18:02:59 2006 |
| Steve Jones | steve.jones@freescale.com | Request | All | 2.6.1 | Allow $attributes in "Comment = " option |
| Is it possible to allow $attribute substitutions in the "Comment =" option for logbooks? |
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1746
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Sat Mar 4 05:17:14 2006 |
 | Glenn Horton-Smith | gahs@phys.ksu.edu | Request | All | 2.6.1-1668 | require smileys to have whitespace on either side? |
It would be nice if elog would only interpret something as a smiley if it is surrounded by whitespace. It can be particularly annoying that an 8 followed by a right paren becomes a "cool" smiley -- e.g., a parenthetical reference to event eighteen (18) becomes mangled... [That was "18" inside the parens.]
Is there already a way to solve this issue (other than always previewing your entries and adding spaces before parans)? Is the feature hard to implement? |
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1747
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Sat Mar 4 06:04:53 2006 |
 | Steve Jones | steve.jones@freescale.com | Request | All | 2.6.1 | Re: Top Groups and logbook directorys |
| Steve Jones wrote: | I am re-working our elog setup and am seriously looking at using the "Top Group" feature. What I like best is the ability to create [global] configurations for a group (or type) of logbook when I host multiple types on the same server. I also like being able to specify a different password file, etc.
A limitation that I run into is I would really like the actual directory names used for storing the logbooks for the different types to be identical - which isn't possible when all logbooks (regardless of context) exist at the same directory level. For example, I might have:
3 physical locations: ABC, DEF, GHI
For each location I want to maintain two *groups* of logbooks - CircuitTests and BoardTests. What I would like to end up with is:
- CircuitTests
----ABC
----DEF
----GHI
- BoardTests
----ABC
----DEF
----GHI
Under current elog this is not possble as far as I know. Since each logbook is a physical directory, each logbook requires a unique name. The concept of a named [global] area fills the bill for all things but it would be nifty if one could do:
[global circuittests]
Logbook dir = circuittestlogbooks
[global boardtests]
Logbook dir = boardtestlogbooks
I suppose the poorman's way of doing this is for each logbook to do the following:
[ABC]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/ABC
[DEF]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/DEF
[GHI]
Subdir = boardtestlogbooks/GHI
or something like that, but I was hopic for something a little more integrated - like creating the hierarchical stuff via the GUI. Anyway, this probably sounds like a major overhaul, which definitely wouldn't be worth it unless I have completely missed something glaringly obvious.
Thanks! |
| Steve Jones wrote: | | Perhaps it is best to ignore this -- I went for a workaround that I like. I am running into a few quirky things with Top Group but it is likely due to the fact that I have never used it. |
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1750
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Mon Mar 6 13:40:40 2006 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Request | All | 2.6.1 | Re: Allow $attributes in "Comment = " option |
| Steve Jones wrote: | | Is it possible to allow $attribute substitutions in the "Comment =" option for logbooks? |
The "Comment =" option for logbooks gives a general comment, like Discussion forum about ELOG for this forum. Since this comment is global, it does not make sense to have $attribute substitution. |
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Mon Mar 6 13:50:07 2006 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Request | All | 2.6.1-1668 | Re: require smileys to have whitespace on either side? |
| Glenn Horton-Smith wrote: | It would be nice if elog would only interpret something as a smiley if it is surrounded by whitespace. It can be particularly annoying that an 8 followed by a right paren becomes a "cool" smiley -- e.g., a parenthetical reference to event eighteen (18) becomes mangled... [That was "18" inside the parens.]
Is there already a way to solve this issue (other than always previewing your entries and adding spaces before parans)? Is the feature hard to implement? |
Interpreting smileys only if they are surrounded by whitespace does not solve the problem completely. It will solve it for (1\8), but not if you have (1, \8) (1, 9) in your text. So it's not a good solution. If you have problems with simleys, I would post my text in plain mode, or surround your numbers with [code]...[/code] tags. If you write
[code](1\8)[/code]
then it will look like
(18)
which should be fine. |
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Mon Mar 6 17:43:11 2006 |
| Steve Jones | steve.jones@freescale.com | Request | All | 2.6.1 | Re: Allow $attributes in "Comment = " option |
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Steve Jones wrote: | | Is it possible to allow $attribute substitutions in the "Comment =" option for logbooks? |
The "Comment =" option for logbooks gives a general comment, like Discussion forum about ELOG for this forum. Since this comment is global, it does not make sense to have $attribute substitution. |
| Quote: | | Ok, just a thought. Thanks |
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Mon Mar 6 20:51:57 2006 |
| Glenn Horton-Smith | gahs@phys.ksu.edu | Request | All | 2.6.1-1668 | Provide option to require smileys to be bracketed a la ELCode? |
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Glenn Horton-Smith wrote: | It would be nice if elog would only interpret something as a smiley if it is surrounded by whitespace. It can be particularly annoying that an 8 followed by a right paren becomes a "cool" smiley -- e.g., a parenthetical reference to event eighteen (18) becomes mangled... [That was "18" inside the parens.] ...
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Interpreting smileys only if they are surrounded by whitespace does not solve the problem completely. It will solve it for (1\8), but not if you have (1, \8) (1, 9) in your text. So it's not a good solution. If you have problems with simleys, I would post my text in plain mode, or surround your numbers with [code]...[/code] tags...
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Hmm, you're right. But I like EL Code, and I don't want to give it up just because of the smileys! A better solution would be to provide an option, which when set, would require smileys to be in brackets, e.g., [\8)] would become the cool smiley [8)], rendered without surrounding brackets if the option was set.
I actually just spent some time I didn't really have and modified my copy of elogd to see if it could be done and would work as intended. Eureka, it works! The modification implements an option "use bracketed smileys" which, if set to 1, causes the editor smiley bar to insert smileys with the square brackets around them and causes rsputs_elcode() to only substitute for smileys if there are square brackets around them, suppressing the square brackets.
I like this feature. Maybe others would like it too. I have a patch file (diff -cbw) w.r.t. svn version 1663 if you're interested. |