Hi there,

we extensively use Logbuch as a change documentation platform.

E-Mail notifications for new entries are very important for us.

Since we store sensible data in our logbooks the server is protected by a firewall.

After the firewall was activated the HTML mails are not rendered by the Outlook Mail clients we use - when they are located in an "external" net behind the firewall. I assume that's because of the css stylesheet which is linked in the source code of the HTML mail.

Is there any chance to include the CSS information in the HTML code? Otherwise we would need to make the CSS accessable from anywhere which requires in turn that the path of the CSS file can be customized.

Any idea how to solved this issue?

Best regards,

daniel

The CSS has been embedded in the email end of 2018, so just upgrade your server.

https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog/commits/5165daf35cc1fb066071827719079fe0c9aa5ffb

/Stefan

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that we are on the latest version already.

We use ELOG V3.1.4-a04faf9f

I downloaded a fresh install binary for Windows and compared the checksums:

SHA256: 0A98485134E0D43959CB6734F977B02DC9FA884D6994CE3BA141664451FDA5E5
SHA256: 0A98485134E0D43959CB6734F977B02DC9FA884D6994CE3BA141664451FDA5E5

same same.

Or do I have to change to config in order to include the CSS in the HTML?

regards,

daniel

a04faf9f is pretty old: https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog/commits/a04faf9fa9ca74657240cdc827bd2d0ae48a9df1

It's from September 2018, where the change with the CSS has been made on Decemb er 2018. You have to pull the current version from the git repository and recompile the program yourself.

/Stefan

Hi Stefan,

I pulled the code from the repository but was not able to build it.

Sorry, I'm not a developer. Is there a good documentation you can recommend on how to do this for a Windows installation incl. how to setup a build environment?

No chance to get a more recent Windows version already precompiled? ^^

Regards,

daniel

Hello,

I'm new to elog software and I could not find a solution to my configuration issue. I would like to setup a configuration file similar to MEG experiment's elog.

https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/meg/

I'm interested in creating similar to the structure: "General", "Collaboratoin", "Sub-groups (with sub-sub groups "Software", "Hardware" etc). I cannot tell if this was created by using Top Group feature.

Can someone explain how this design structure can be achieved?

Thanks,

Daniel

It was done using the "groups" feature:

https://elog.psi.ch/elog/config.html#groups

Stefan

The documentation describing the use of conditionals uses a single character (letter or number) for names of conditions.  I don't see any update/change to that rule anywhere in the docs.

I have been using multi-character condition names successfully.   I find these are easier to use since they can be more descriptive of each condition.   It works, but I am concerned I may be doing something that might not be supported going forward.   (It is simple enough to change these, but I'd prefer to know if this practice is acceptable.)

Thank you, again, for this fine (and, may I add, fun?) tool.  I'm having a good time with it!