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ID Date Icondown Author Author Email Category OS ELOG Version Subject
  67003   Wed Jan 26 19:38:58 2011 Reply Louis de Leseleuclouis.deleseleuc@nrc-cnrc.gc.caRequestLinux2.8.1Re: Working Ubuntu 10.10 ELOG binaries

Louis de Leseleuc wrote:

 Hello,

Can anyone please send me, or publicly provide, working Ubuntu 10.10 binaries (64-bit) for ELOG?

I have compiled and installed the program. While the core functionalities are OK, I have run into irritating bugs in filtering and config editing that are not present in the online demo (but are in my local demo and logbook).

Hence I suspect compilation to be the cause.

For the curious:

  • Saving the config within ELOG scrambles the elog.conf file

 

Theme = default
Comment = Louis's Lab Book
Attributes = Project, Type, Category, Subject
 
after saving becomes
 
Them = defaultt
Commnt = Louiss's Lab Book
Attribute = Prroject, Type, Category, Subject
  • In the Find page, drop-down filters for attributes are ignored, but text is searched
  • In the threaded view, Quick filters "dissociate" posts and replies, so that all rows are now in reverse chronological order

Cheers!

Louis

 

 

Hmm actually that last bug is also present in the demo. Any hope of fixing that?

True, some posts may not match the filters, leaving replies "orphan". I suggest that any orphan reply be either attached to the nearest upper level, or if not possible, be styled as a post instead of a reply (no arrow or indent) so as not to mistake it for a reply to the message above.

The benefit would be to be able to follow threads matching certain categories.

  67004   Wed Feb 2 14:04:19 2011 Reply Robert Heineheine@kph.uni-mainz.deQuestionWindowsV2.8.0-231Re: Error Message in "Demo of database-like elog"

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Robert Heine wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

mike cianci wrote:

I attempted to remove the text editor (like you did in "Demo of database-like elog") using  "Show text = 0".

In both your Demo and my logbook when you hit  "New"  - Explorer generates the folowing error message

        Error: The Textarea with id or name set to "text" was not found.

Is there a solution or do we just live with it.

Thanks,    Mike

 

Thanks for reporting that bug. I fixed it in SVN revision 2188, and the fix will be contained in the next release. 

 I am getting the same message in the current version (V2.8.0-2312), if the "Preset text"  text body contains the equal sign '='. Then this message pops up and the HTML-editor dosn't show its menu bars, with the elog- or plain text editor this does not happen. It happens as well with firefox as with internet explorer.

 

best regards

Robert

I found a bug there, but am not 100% sure if it fixed your problem. Can you please try the current SVN version 2331? I made a new intermediate release elog280-4.exe for you. 

Sorry, I was busy for a while. I've just upgraded to SVN 2350 and the problem seems to be gone.

Best wishes

Robert

  67007   Fri Feb 4 10:20:12 2011 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionOther2.8.1Re: Strange problem with dates - need debugging help

T. Ribbrock wrote:

I have just installed elog 2.8.1 on my OpenBSD 4.8 server (I've added the necessary Makefile patch to "Contributions"). Everything seems to work fine, however, I ran into a very odd problems with the dates of the logbook entries: When I start a new entry, the current date/time is displayed correctly. When I submit the entry and look at it again, the date has changed to some value in 1996 . I've checked the actual logbook file and there, the entry has a Date line like this:

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:53:28 -13049141
 

The "-13049141" looks very suspicious to me - but I have no idea whatsoever why this happens. I had elogd running with -v, but that did not give me any hints. Any ideas how to debug/resolve this would be much appreciated... 

The problem is most probably related to the time zone. elogd contains a function:


/* workaround for wong timezone under MAX OSX */
long my_timezone()
{
#if defined(OS_MACOSX) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
   time_t tp;
   time(&tp);
   return -localtime(&tp)->tm_gmtoff;
#else
   return timezone;
#endif
}
 
from which you can see that there is a different behavior between different Linux flavors and OSX/FreeBSD. Maybe you need an additional
 
|| defined(__OpenBSD__)
 
if the pre-compiler directive __FreeBSD__ is not defined on your system. The result of the function should be the time zone in seconds relative to GMT. So for central Europe, it should give "-3600".
 
Let me know if you find something out, I can then include it in the distribution.
 
Best regards,
 
  Stefan
  67010   Mon Feb 7 08:46:23 2011 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindowslatestRe: Edit Mode - Icons

Behdad D wrote:

 Hi all,

 

Is there a way to add more icons to the currently available icons when you are in the edit mode. For example instead of having this  icon if I want to add a different icon that is not in the list.

The reason I ask is that I want for example to have an icon of a bug(for software bugs) or something different.

 

I looked in the elog's installation directory and I could find all of the available icons but couldn't see any place where I could modify the installation to allow me access to the extra icons.

 

Thanks in advance.

Behdad.

You need to do two things:

1) Add you new icon to  <elog directory>\themes\default\icons

2) Refer to your new icon in the config file like

IOptions Icon = icon1.gif, icon2.gif, new_icon.gif

 

  67011   Mon Feb 7 15:14:36 2011 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportOther2.9.0-2384Re: Odd bug with conditional and required attributes

T. Ribbrock wrote:

I just ran into an odd bug with conditional attributes: If I add a certain attribute to "Required Attributes", none of the conditionals will work anymore. I have tried to create a small logbook definition that will demonstrate the problem (the original logbook is more complex and uses two sets of conditionals, both of which will be disabled when the bug hits):

; General settings
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Duplicate, Delete, Reply, Select, Move to, Download, Find, Logout, Help, Config,Admin
List Menu commands = New, Select, Find, Logout, Help, Config, Admin, Import, Download
Date Format = %d/%m/%Y
List conditions = 1
List display = Edit, Type, Created, StatusA, StatusB, Archived, Test Text, Public?

; Attributes
Attributes = Type, Created, StatusA, StatusB, Archived, Test Text, Public?
Required Attributes = Type

; Attribute Types
Type Created = date
Type Archived = date

; Options & Tooltips
Options Type = Type1{0}, Type2{1}
Options StatusA = Status-A-red, Status-A-orange, Status-A
Options StatusB = Status-B-red, Status-B-orange, Status-B
Options Public? = yes,no

; Conditionals
{0}Show Attributes Edit = Type, Created, StatusA, StatusB, Archived, Test Text, Public?
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Type, Created, StatusA, Archived, Test Text, Public?

The above logbook definition works. However, if I replace the Required Attributes = Type with Required Attributes = Type, Public?, the conditionals will no longer work. I can see the difference in the reactions of the browser - with the extra attribute, nothing happens when I change "Type". Without, the browser will spring into action and reload as soon as I change "Type". I've tested this with both Firefox 3.6.13 and Konqueror 4.4.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 as clients. Fortunately, this is not a showstopper for me, as it is not mandatory to have this attribute defined as required, but I find it a weird issue nonetheless.

Cheerio,

Thomas

P.S.: I'm currently running the latest SVN version of elogd on OPenBSD as I ran into the same problem as described in Message 66984. The above problem also happens with the 2.8.1 I was using before. Some feedback: The SVN version compiled and ran without any further intervention on OpenBSD - very nice!

Your problem is the "?" in the attribute Public?.  Attributes may only contain ordinary characters. Unfortunately I did not document this so far. Therefore I put some fix in SVN revision 2387 which allows your attribute Public?, but I'm not 100% sure if this works in all places. The safest is just to remove the question mark.

  67012   Mon Feb 7 16:44:54 2011 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2350Re: Fckedit and quotation style sheets

Robert Heine wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I have edited my own style sheets for elog, but if I use the reply function while having fckedit as editor, the quotations have the standard elog colors, not mine. With elog's own editor, I get my colors. I figured out that fckedit inserts the quote as HTML-block with "hard coded" colors, but I am not able to find the template fckedit uses for it! Does anyone know the path to this template?

Thank you in advance

Robert Heine

That's actually a limitation of fckedit. It simply does not interprete any style sheets, that's why actually the elogd program hard-wires the colors etc. Sorry for that.  

  67013   Mon Feb 7 17:26:26 2011 Reply T. Ribbrockemgaron+elog@ribbrock.orgBug reportOther2.9.0-2384Re: Odd bug with conditional and required attributes

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Your problem is the "?" in the attribute Public?.  Attributes may only contain ordinary characters. Unfortunately I did not document this so far. Therefore I put some fix in SVN revision 2387 which allows your attribute Public?, but I'm not 100% sure if this works in all places. The safest is just to remove the question mark.

 Thanks Stefan, I'll try that. It's strange, though: At work, we're running 2.7.6 (and have used older versions in the past) and we have several logbooks with each at least one or two attributes with '?' and never had a problem with conditionals. Hence my surprise when this suddenly hit me with 2.8.1+ at home. Removing the '?' would be quite some work, as I'd have to change all logbooks and the associated data (the latter could probably be done with "rpl", I hope). I'll think about it.

  67014   Wed Feb 9 08:59:40 2011 Reply Behdad Dbehdad@inbox.comQuestionWindowslatestRe: Edit Mode - Icons

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Behdad D wrote:

 Hi all,

 

Is there a way to add more icons to the currently available icons when you are in the edit mode. For example instead of having this  icon if I want to add a different icon that is not in the list.

The reason I ask is that I want for example to have an icon of a bug(for software bugs) or something different.

 

I looked in the elog's installation directory and I could find all of the available icons but couldn't see any place where I could modify the installation to allow me access to the extra icons.

 

Thanks in advance.

Behdad.

You need to do two things:

1) Add you new icon to  <elog directory>\themes\default\icons

2) Refer to your new icon in the config file like

IOptions Icon = icon1.gif, icon2.gif, new_icon.gif

 

 Thank you for the reply but I think you misunderstood me. I am not after icons for the attributes. I am after icons that I can insert it into my records text like this one.... . So I just like to customize my icons in the "Insert Smiley" list.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thank you.

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