Re: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Thu May 15 01:06:21 2008
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| Dennis Seitz wrote: | I posted this on the end of an earlier thread but I thought it might be better to repost as a separate thread:
Thank you for pointing out the method to identify an attribute as a datetime type so that it will sort properly. I now have created my "Last Edit" attribute in several
preexisting logbooks.
I want to use
Start page = ?rsort=Last Edit
to set the default sorting of each logbook to be by Last Edit.
However, all of the entries made before I added Last Edit have no value for that field, so they are all grouped together at the end of the sort. So I
decided to go through the older entries and set Last Edit equal to the original entry date, as a starting value.
I tried to use the command
Subst on edit Last Edit = $entry time
but it gives a "-" for the Last Edit value when I edit an entry.
I think this is because $entry time is not a variable supported by Subst. Can you add that support, or else tell me if you know a better way to go about
doing what I'm attempting? Is there perhaps a way to globally process a group of entries in a logbook and set one attribute's value to be equal to
another's? To reiterate, I want to initialize Last Edit = $entrytime for all entries that have not been re-edited.
Thanks |
OK, now I realize how stupid I sound here. To partially answer my own question: $entry time is a string and Last Edit is now a number since I have changed it to the datetime type so that it will sort properly.
So I can't make Last Edit = $entry time. Is there some way I can access the entry time in datetime format so that I can set Last Edit equal to that?
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, I'm confused... |
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Re: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jun 2 12:01:47 2008
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| Dennis Seitz wrote: | OK, now I realize how stupid I sound here. To partially answer my own question: $entry time is a string and Last Edit is now a number since I have changed it to the datetime type so that it will sort properly.
So I can't make Last Edit = $entry time. Is there some way I can access the entry time in datetime format so that I can set Last Edit equal to that? |
Ok, now I got your point. Sorry for the late reply, but I was extremely busy the last few weeks. I added the missing functionality to elog revision 2108, so the 'subst on edit Last Edit = $entry date' does now work. |
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Re: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Mon Jun 2 23:41:15 2008
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Dennis Seitz wrote: | OK, now I realize how stupid I sound here. To partially answer my own question: $entry time is a string and Last Edit is now a number since I have changed it to the datetime type so that it will sort properly.
So I can't make Last Edit = $entry time. Is there some way I can access the entry time in datetime format so that I can set Last Edit equal to that? |
Ok, now I got your point. Sorry for the late reply, but I was extremely busy the last few weeks. I added the missing functionality to elog revision 2108, so the 'subst on edit Last Edit = $entry date' does now work. |
Thanks! Do you mean '$entry time', or did you create a new parameter? (I don't see $entry date in the elogd.cfg reference)
Anway, thank you! |
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Re: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jun 3 12:47:13 2008
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| Dennis Seitz wrote: | | Do you mean '$entry time', or did you create a new parameter? (I don't see $entry date in the elogd.cfg reference) |
Yes, of course I mean '$entry time', sorry for the misspelling. |
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Re: Re: $entry time not readable by Subst, else not datetime type?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Thu Jun 5 01:38:17 2008
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Dennis Seitz wrote: | | Do you mean '$entry time', or did you create a new parameter? (I don't see $entry date in the elogd.cfg reference) |
Yes, of course I mean '$entry time', sorry for the misspelling. |
Well, we really appreciate the way you keep adding features and making improvements. I thought you might have slipped a new one in! |
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Re: Re: $datetime display, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri May 19 12:19:38 2006
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| Fergus Lynch wrote: | Apologies for being so dense but try as I might I cannot get the $datetime display to show only Day, Month , Year,hour and minutes, NOT seconds.
I dont nee the seconds display!
Could you please clarify the systax for me. |
Can you show me the elogd.cfg syntax you try to use? |
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Re: Re: $datetime display, posted by Fergus Lynch on Fri May 19 14:01:34 2006
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Fergus Lynch wrote: | Apologies for being so dense but try as I might I cannot get the $datetime display to show only Day, Month , Year,hour and minutes, NOT seconds.
I dont nee the seconds display!
Could you please clarify the systax for me. |
Can you show me the elogd.cfg syntax you try to use? |
Hi There!
See in bold below (I'm sure this is me being dense, so thanks for quick reply)
Fergus
Theme = default
Comment = Recording work carried out on any core system
Time format = %B %d, %Y, %H:%M
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Type, Status |
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Re: Re: $datetime display, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sat May 20 09:48:52 2006
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| Fergus Lynch wrote: |
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Fergus Lynch wrote: | Apologies for being so dense but try as I might I cannot get the $datetime display to show only Day, Month , Year,hour and minutes, NOT seconds.
I dont nee the seconds display!
Could you please clarify the systax for me. |
Can you show me the elogd.cfg syntax you try to use? |
Hi There!
See in bold below (I'm sure this is me being dense, so thanks for quick reply)
Fergus
Theme = default
Comment = Recording work carried out on any core system
Time format = %B %d, %Y, %H:%M
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Type, Status |
What about
Time format = %B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S |
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