Hello, Is there any way to organize logbooks in some kind of tree with sublogbooks or just have a subdirectories in a logbook directory on the filesystem (treat it as a sublogbook if its name is different from 4 digits of year and pin above all the entries in a list) to structure entires a bit?

Just use groups as written in the manual: https://elog.psi.ch/elog/config.html#groups

Stefan

Hello, I read carefully the manual, but I didn't find a way to hide the logbooks in the logbook bar and in the initial logbook selection for which the user does not have the access. So, if a user1 does not have the access to a specific logbook, user1 is not able to see that logbook in the bar and neither in the initial logbook selection. How can I do this without using the top groups?

Hi Stefano,

Kind Regards, Andreas

Hi Andreas,

many thanks for your answer. I partially agree with you, because sometimes "for privacy" of my working group I don't want that other users (external users) know the existance of the other logbooks.

Do you think that will be implemented in future?

Best regards, Stefano

Well, Stefan would need to answer that. But if you are good with C-programming, you might implement it yourself?

There is a way to implement it; but it makes your installation a lot more complicated: you can have two ELOG servers. The first has all logbooks but requires authentification to read any. The second has only the public logbooks, and they are mirrored from the first.

Hi Stefano,

that's what top groups were made for. So make a top group for yourself, and nobody will be able to see them without having the proper URL. Hiding logbooks from the logbook selection page is not possible since when people bring up that page, they are not yet logged in, so elog does not know who is accessing the page (fortunatley no face recognition yet!). So if elog doe not know who looks at that page, logobook which a certain use has no access to cannot be hidden becuase the user is not known at that point.

Best regards,

Stefan

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I solved my problem by removing the guest options from the logbooks ('Guest menu commands' and 'Guest List Menu commands'), this forbids any unauthorised user to see the content of the concerned logbooks. This is what I needed.

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Dear Stefan,

I am currently configuring elog for a user platform that will run different unrelated experiments for unrelated research groups. As Stefano, I also would like that user only see the logbooks that they are allowed to edit; your answer was

Hiding logbooks from the logbook selection page is not possible since when people bring up that page, they are not yet logged in, so elog does not know who is accessing the page

However if I set Protect Selection page = 1 in [global] and force users to log in before accessing the logbook selection page, wouldn't elog know who looks at the page?

I would like to use top groups to separate administrative tasks from experimental projects and maintain an easy flow between the different logbooks within a top group for those users that can edit more than one logbook (e.g. the employees of the user platform).

Kindly,

marijn

Hello Elog Forum

There is i ELOG the function to edit multiple posts eg. to change the staus from "ongoing" to "finished" -> in danish translation "igangværende" and "afsluttet", see the attached pictures.

When I select multiple post and want to edit them to status "afsluttet" i get the "udklip_2.jpg" entry form and change only the status to "afsluttet" (Finished)

The result is a error informing that the attribut "gem oprindelige værdier" does not exist. As a test i changed the text in the translation file from "Keep origianl values = gem oprindelige værdier" to "Keep origianl values = Keep origianl values" but the result is the same error: Attribut Keep original values does not exist.

Is there a solution to this or is or is mutiple editing of post not allowed?

Kind Regards Finn

I use editing of multiple entries frequently and it works fine for me.

To understand your problem I would suggest that you try a minimal configuration. If you have a test logbook with just one or two fields and it still does not work, then post the config here that people can reproduce your problem - and hopefully find a fix.

Cheers, Andreas

Hello Andreas

OK, I did install a version of ELOG with a minimum of settings and the edit of multiple settings works fine. I've tracked the issue to "Locked Attributes = Bruger".

If one or more of the attributes are locked i get the error "Error: Attribute option - keep original values - not existing". I'm not trying to change the locked attribute, but it seems when one is locked multiple editing is not possible.

Is that intended to work this way?

Kind Regards Finn

Hi Finn,

Hello Andreas

Show Attributes Edit = xxx, limits the attributes shown when editing but when you submit you get the error

Error: Attribute Bruger not supplied.

Please go back and enter the Bruger field.

If I save instead of submitting it looks like it does change the attribute as intented in my test Elog system. Unfortunately i've disabled save with "Save drafts = 0" in my live system - to only use submit, and enabling drafts only causes other issues. My configuration is attached

Kind Regards Finn 

Hello Andres

Or maybe my reply was unclear :-), but i did use the "Show Attributes Edit" the way you meant to not show attribute BRUGER and when i do that i get:

Error: Attribute Bruger not supplied.

Please go back and enter the Bruger field

Kind Regards Finn

Trial and error - it seems like this combination does the trick:

Locked Attributes = Author

Fixed Attributes Edit = Author

Allows you to edit eg. status of multiple entries even if one attribute is locked

Kind Regards Finn

Hi, I have been trying for a long time to get my web server logs to record when someone accesses my Elog server. I've tried Apache2, Lighttpd, and others, all with no luck. Either the web servers complain that the port I have Elog on is in use, or I just don't get any readings. I need to see who is accessing my  Elog from the web, and I hope there is a way.

Thanks again for such a wonderful program,

John

Have you tried

Logfile = ...
Logging level = 3

Thanx soo much Stefan.. I feel so stupid for not looking at the admin guide more :( But you how us nerds are-- read the manul last!

John :)

Hi again everyone; a Sebastian suggested I use a reverse proxy to complete my need to have logs show up when someone 'lands' on my first entry page. I see that Elog will only start recording logs when someone has actually started to do some work.. like login, read a post, etc... but NOT when they first enter the login page or 'listings' pages. I have tried fowarding from my router (both lighty and Apache) but so for no good. I will also look into  a vhost option and shareing the same port (very difficult- if even possible)  to  solve my dilema.

John :)

Hi,
that Sebastian would be me. I replied to the first entry, as it was a draft (site reloaded incorretly...) and now I can't see the post anywhere. But this is off topic.

We have elog running on port 8000 and forward the traffic via Apache to it. Apache handles the SSL and other sites on the server.
All you need is a apache site configuration like the following. The parameter you want is CustomLog. (Have a look in the internet for options.)
I have also used nginx as webserver and know it can also handle this proxy setup.
If you use the following config, the elog config needs the URL attribute in the (global) config.

Best wishes,
Sebastian

<VirtualHost *:443> # change 443 to  80, if you don't use SSL
        ServerName your.server.name

        # delete the next 3 lines, if you don't use SSL
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /path/to/your/ssl.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/your/ssl.key

        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8000/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8000/

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

</VirtualHost>

Thank you soo much Sebastian once again for helping me!! This is something that will help me very much in the future with other situations similiar!

John :)

Hi all,

  We came across a problem recently when clicking "Upload" button, then elog hanged and never being accessed. I have checked the elog logs and find that it seems that elog didn't get the path of the picture for some reason. So is it a bug or our operation isn't correct?

The problem is you have some weird characters in your file name R2BLM15 ? ? ? ? ? .PNG which confuses the interpreter. There should not be any special character or blanks in attached images.

Stefan

That make sense. Is there a way to recovery when hung except restart elogd? On the other hand, whether could  prompt for reloading attachment when interpreter detect error but not hang?

Wu Xuan

Hi all,

I've found a bug in elog. It's all right that uploading an image which file name with special characters. I think it must have something to do with the code like"url_encode(file_enc, sizeof(file_enc));  /* for file names with special characters like "+" */". If I clicked the "Make small/Make larger/Original size/Rotate left/Rotate right" button, the elog server will hang. How it can be fixed? The attached image shows the debug info.

Xuan

Dear All 

i have this problem since i tried  to install ELOG latest version while make Authetnetication Kerberos ELOG stop runing any idea or help please

My elog has this config for the author:

Option Author = Filled In Automatically
Preset Author = $Long_name
Locked Attributes = Author

This works as intended: when you submit a new entry, the author name is filled in automatically and cannot be changed.

However, when Alice wants to post a reply to an entry the Bruce has made, the preset author name does not say Alice, it says Bruce. I haven't been able to find out how to change this (other than make the author name editable). Even when Author isn't configured as as locked attribute, it still displays the original author's name.

How can I get this to work like I want/need to?

This should do the trick

Preset on reply Author = $long_name

Best, Stefano

Brilliant in all its simplicity! Many thanks!

Preset on reply Author = $long_name

Hello Elog forum

Is it possible to email boolean statements, like if a checkbox is checked to email certain people?

My Configuration looks like this but dosn't work:

Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
Options PM5 = boolean
Email PM5 = fj@tvis.net

Kind Regards

Finn

> Hello Elog forum
> 
> Is it possible to email boolean statements, like if a checkbox is checked to email certain people?
> 
> My Configuration looks like this but dosn't work:
> 
> Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
> Options PM5 = boolean
> Email PM5 = fj@tvis.net
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Finn

I still don't have a solution to the above, but this works:

Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
ROptions PM5 = Ja
Email PM5 Ja = th@tvis.net, fj@tvis.net

Kind Regards

Finn

> > Hello Elog forum
> > 
> > Is it possible to email boolean statements, like if a checkbox is checked to email certain people?
> > 
> > My Configuration looks like this but dosn't work:
> > 
> > Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
> > Options PM5 = boolean
> > Email PM5 = fj@tvis.net
> > 
> > Kind Regards
> > 
> > Finn
> 
> I still don't have a solution to the above, but this works:
> 
> Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
> ROptions PM5 = Ja
> Email PM5 Ja = th@tvis.net, fj@tvis.net
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Finn

You were so close: boolean has the two values "0" (unchecked) and "1" (checked).

 Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
 Options PM5 = boolean
 Email PM5 1 = fj@tvis.net

That does work, I've tested it.

> > > Hello Elog forum
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to email boolean statements, like if a checkbox is checked to email certain people?
> > > 
> > > My Configuration looks like this but dosn't work:
> > > 
> > > Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
> > > Options PM5 = boolean
> > > Email PM5 = fj@tvis.net
> > > 
> > > Kind Regards
> > > 
> > > Finn
> > 
> > I still don't have a solution to the above, but this works:
> > 
> > Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
> > ROptions PM5 = Ja
> > Email PM5 Ja = th@tvis.net, fj@tvis.net
> > 
> > Kind Regards
> > 
> > Finn
> 
> You were so close: boolean has the two values "0" (unchecked) and "1" (checked).
> 
>  Attributes = Bruger, Station, Emne, Status, PM5
>  Options PM5 = boolean
>  Email PM5 1 = fj@tvis.net
> 
> That does work, I've tested it.

Of course :-)

Thank you Andreas

Kind Regards Finn