I haven't found anything in the forums about this. Apologies if its a duplicate.

I am fairly familiar with ELog, use it for multiple purposes on 5 different Virtual Servers at work. 

Currently looking to do some updates to one of the instances with the Date Type setting.

We have 17,000 entries all which have had manual entries for a Date Attribute for the last year and 8 months.

Due to regular entry errors on part of our contractors using it, (Eg: using "Aug" instead of "08", or using "-" instead of "/"), I want to change over to using the date type attribute (Type <attribute> = Date).

However the problem i found, the moment i save this in the config, and go to the list of entries, the date has changed on all of the entries to 12/31/1969. Which is BAD for our operation. So after removing the Type Date Setting the dates go back to normal.

Is there anyway to retain those dates so they display as they are and then only new entries would fall under the new date type setting?

Syntax manual didn't help much for this issue.

 Thanks for reply Stefan. 

I tried it, didnt work. I think its expected it didn't work though, or maybe I didn't try it right. 
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[logbook1]
Login user = user1
Options Type = Home{1}, Work{2}
{1} Login user = user2

This will make user2 unable to login logbook1 at all

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[logbook1]
Login user = user1, user2
Options Type = Home{1}, Work{2}
{1} Login user = user1
{2} Login user = user2

user1 can login, can search Work type entries, create new entry with Work type.  

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[logbook1]
Login user = user1, user2
Options Type = Home{1}, Work{2}
{1} Deny New = user1

user1 can still create entries for Home type. I think it's because when user1 login, command New is available for user1, so when user1 click on New, doesn't matter what type user1 choose, submit button is available. If I have Deny New = user1 under logbook1, New is not available, that means user1 can't create entry for Work type either. 

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seems to me under current code, access control has to be done based on logbook, not attribute.  Do you agree?

if that's the case, we may have a lot of logbook because of access control we want to implement. So there is another question:
selection page show all logbooks. Is there a way to make selection page and tabs show logbooks based on user access?
For example, we have 20 logbooks, user1 has acces to 3, when user1 login, selection page only shows that 3 logbooks for user1, and only 3 tabs for user1. 

 
I thought about using group to get logbooks more organized, however I will still face the situation that one group may have 20 logbooks. 

Or what would you do to handle this situation? (I asked selection page question earlier in another entry). Maybe we should discuss on that entry? Message ID: 67319 

Thanks again. 

 

Actually I never tried that. Using conditional attributes, you could try that out, but no guarantee that it works. Like

Options type = home{1}, work{2}

{1}Login user = you, me

{2}Login user = me, other

You could play with "login user", "Allow command" and "Deny command".

/Stefan 

OK, I see that $date can work in a different way; if the Thread display uses $date,
then the present timestamp is substituted into the thread display line, rather than the 
date that the entry is entered.  So, for example, in a whole list of entry and replies, the present
date shows on each entry of the thread.  However, the format is still that as defined by
'Time format' rather than 'Date format'.

If nothing else, I cannot really see the point of the 'Date format =' in the way that this all works.

> Hi,
> 
> I hope I'm not missing the blindingly obvious here, but I have an issue with time and date formats
> 
> Extract from my elog.cfg file:
> 
> 
> Time format = %a %d %b %y
> Date format = %d %b
> Thread display = $Ticket: $System, $entry time. ($message id). $status
> Preset text = [$date]
> Prepend on reply = [$date] \n
> 
> I can point to places in the syntax doc where each of these lines are given.
> 
> As for the results, the thread display is (for example):
> 
> T00001: Computer, Wed 29 Aug 12. (1). Problem
> 
> However, what I get at the top of the text box in starting a new entry or replying to a previous one is
> 
> [Wed 29 Aug 12]
> 
> whereas I expected to get
> 
> [29 Aug]
> 
> Putting $date instead of $entry time in the Thread display line makes (the by now expected) no difference
> 
> I cannot see where I'm going wrong.  
> 
> TIA 
> 
> David.

Hi,

I hope I'm not missing the blindingly obvious here, but I have an issue with time and date formats

Extract from my elog.cfg file:


Time format = %a %d %b %y
Date format = %d %b
Thread display = $Ticket: $System, $entry time. ($message id). $status
Preset text = [$date]
Prepend on reply = [$date] \n

I can point to places in the syntax doc where each of these lines are given.

As for the results, the thread display is (for example):

T00001: Computer, Wed 29 Aug 12. (1). Problem

However, what I get at the top of the text box in starting a new entry or replying to a previous one is

[Wed 29 Aug 12]

whereas I expected to get

[29 Aug]

Putting $date instead of $entry time in the Thread display line makes (the by now expected) no difference

I cannot see where I'm going wrong.  

TIA 

David.

 Is there a way to set user permission based on certain attribute? can Allow command = <user list> based on attribute?
for example, say type home, user1 can read, user2 can write, user3 can not access type home, but can access type work. 

In short, is access control available when I use type to get functionality of separate logbooks? If so, how is this access control done? 

 Thanks, it works perfectly!

 Thanks, that is good option.