Word of warning about fake email addresses - if your system suddenly does start to send out messages to them, you'll start getting otherwise mysterious email messages back about being unable to deliver and other such comments.  I speak from experience - although in my case the puzzle was finding what was generating the messages in the first place (not elog, another program as it happened).

I suggest you also include

Suppress default = 3

in your configuration file, which also stops them being generated in the first place. 

Although I was unaware (or had totally forgotten) that there was a 'Suppress email button' as mentioned in the documentation.

 Our IT dept is very strict. I'll have to see if I can get email out to a web based email service like yahoo. But they will not give each of my mechanics an email account here.

Thanks

Hi Stefan,

Happy New Year!

I ran several searches thru the forum but I could not detect a suitable entry on the following:

Is it possible to hide/un-hide the Commands, like "Edit", "Reply", "Duplicate", from the Menu based upon an Option of an Attribute?

E.g. Attributes = Status, .. | Options Status = Open, Closed

When Status = "Open"; the Menu Commands "Edit", "Reply" and "Duplicate" are available.

When Status = "Closed"; the Menu Commands "Edit", "Reply" and "Duplicate" are hidden/not available.

-or-

Can this only be accomplished using 2 Logbooks (Open / Closed) and move an entry from "Open" to "Closed" where the Logbook "Closed" is not using the Commands  "Edit", "Reply", "Duplicate".

Kind regards,

Barend

Hi all,

I am trying to set up elog here at the University of Minnesota.  It looks very promising for helping to manage a fairly complicated operation.  I've got most of what I want set up without too much difficulty.  However, I find that I'm having some difficulty to get it working properly with email.

In particular, I have my account set up to email me when log entries are made (subscribe to logbooks option is selected).   In the global section of my elogd.conf file I have set up the variables:

SMTP host = factoryserver5
SMTP username = factory

However, when I make a test entry, I get an error at the top:

Error sending Email via <i>"factoryserver5"</i>: 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabled

I tried setting the password using "elogd -t" but to no avail.  I also tried a few different values for SMTP host

Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?

Cheers,

Satish

There are several SMTP authorisation options, and only a subset is supported by ELOG. Have you tried without the "SMTP username"?

Stefan

 Good day,

I was wondering (and I searched for :) ) a way to directly edit an entry while in summary view instead of having to first click on the entry then click on Edit...

I mean, in summary view, every row entry is clickable to access the entry itself (except email witch open email client), so instead to open it, can it be edited directly ?

Is it possible ?

 Is it possible to change the "yellow" background color when running a search ? (I looked in the css, there is nothing...) 

Couldn't find any syntax for elogd.cfg

Thanks for your help :)

There are no specific classes for the search dialog, but you can play with the classes "form2", "attribname" and "attribvalue". These classes are used in several places, so all will change in the same way, but maybe that's what you like.