You could write a script/program that calls the ELOG client with the necessary attributes to submit the entry (see the user's guide).

 This would be of value for me as well. I'm trying to develop a event log for a research ship. Thanks. -ben

There are several ways:

1) Use conditional attributes (see https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#conditional). If you have several standard entries, put the into the option list of a "type" attribute. Then depending on that value, you can pre-populate other attributes/options. This is then not a single-button solution, but a single-click plus one selection from a drop-down list solution which should be pretty close.

2) You can make a bookmark in your browser. Take the URL of the logbook, add "?cmd=New" and then for each attribute you can select a preset value using "&p<attribute>=<value>". So for example on the demo logbook you can use

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Linux+Demo/?cmd=New&ptype=Routine&pcategory=General&pauthor=Ellis 

which opens the new entry dialog, and pre-set values for Type, Category and Author. Then you can make several bookmarks for different standard entries.

- Stefan

> Is there a way to simulate an ELOG SUBMIT?

Have a look at the elog utility which comes in the package. It does exactly 
this. It "simulates" a browser and does a submit directly to elogd. So you 
can either redo the elog code somewhere, or call elog with the proper 
command line parameters to insert logbook entries.

> > Is there a way to simulate an ELOG SUBMIT?
> 
> Have a look at the elog utility which comes in the package. It does exactly 
> this. It "simulates" a browser and does a submit directly to elogd. So you 
> can either redo the elog code somewhere, or call elog with the proper 
> command line parameters to insert logbook entries.

Thank you, Stefan!

I guess this question got somehow lost.
So once again : Is there a possibility to EDIT an existing message with 
elog.exe ?

Tomas


> > Is there a way to simulate an ELOG SUBMIT?
> 
> Have a look at the elog utility which comes in the package. It does 
exactly 
> this. It "simulates" a browser and does a submit directly to elogd. So 
you 
> can either redo the elog code somewhere, or call elog with the proper 
> command line parameters to insert logbook entries.

We did some tests of your elog utility. It does what we need except for one 
important thing: EDIT existing messages. Is there a way to edit en existing 
message? Adding a new message or replying to an existing message works fine 
but in our case we need to have the ability to modify messages that were 
created in the past.

Tomas

> I guess this question got somehow lost.
> So once again : Is there a possibility to EDIT an existing message with 
> elog.exe ?

This message did not get lost, but I'm on a conference right now in Elba and 
will come back next week, when I have time to answer all questions. Only so 
much for now: Editing in elog.exe is right now not implemented, but I will 
put it on the wishlist.

- Stefan

> I guess this question got somehow lost.

Got not lost, but I was on two consecutive conferences and just returned.

> So once again : Is there a possibility to EDIT an existing message with 
> elog.exe ?

Not at the moment. But I will put it on the wishlist.