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  66551   Thu Sep 17 18:44:52 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.6-2236Re: Elog & SSL Export to CSV , Problem

Chuck Brost wrote:

 Ah, now this is humorous, when the client first came to me, that was almost exactly the work around I gave him, open it, CTRL-A to highlight it all, CTRL-C to copy it, Move to the excel spreadsheet, CTRL-V to paste it into Excel. Select Data, Text to Columns, and you have an Excel Spreadsheet.   They wanted me to post the change in function anyway, though I told Vamsi, "just watch, someone will post the same workaround that I already gave to the clients".  So you see why I find it amusing.  I would say Great Minds Think Alike, but that would be giving myself a bit too much credit (grin).  First, thank you for proving me right on my prediction and if you should happen to make a change that would get around this SSL change in behavior, it would make a group of manufacturing types that are not quite as comfortable with computers as we are, very happy.   Please let us know.

I can easily remove the "no-cache" from the header, but as I wrote you, people can then shoot themselves into the foot by getting an old document, and I guess they become even less happy then. So you tell me which way you prefer. 

  66550   Thu Sep 17 18:32:59 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.7.7-2246Re: Change / List Change doen't work anymore?

Holger Mundhahs wrote:
Hello @all,

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but after upgradeing from 2.7.0 to 2.7.7 the Change <attribute> and List Change <attribute> doesn't work anymore. In my .cfg file I've:

Quote:
Change RIB-http = <a href="https://$RIB-Hostname/" target="_new">RIB-Board</a>
List Change RIB-http = <a href="https://$RIB-Hostname/" target="_new">RIB-Board</a>


In the old ELOG version I've "RIB-Board" as text in the page and the link works well. But now there is the following code generated:

Quote:
<tr><td nowrap class="attribname">RIB-http:</td><td class="attribvalue">
&lt;a href="<a href="https://RIB-COMPUTER/">https://RIB-COMPUTER/</a>" target="_new"&gt;RIB-Board&lt;/a&gt;&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

Is the syntax changed from 2.7.0 to 2.7.7? What's the correct syntax for 2.7.7?


For security reasons (XSS or cross site scripting) , HTML code in attributes is not allowed by default. To turn it on (and if you know what you are doing), add following line to your configuration
Allow HTML = 1
  66549   Thu Sep 17 18:31:44 2009 Reply Chuck BrostBrost_chuck@solarturbines.comQuestionWindows2.7.6-2236Re: Elog & SSL Export to CSV , Problem

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Chuck Brost wrote:

 

 

 

We use eLOG with IE. Once we turned on SSL, it is no longer possible to "Export to CSV" and save the output.

The error that we get is:

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

This is documented on Microsoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431

It is considered a feature with no fix. Basically the browser is honoring a request from the server which is "Pragma: no-cache". Problem can be reproduced in IE versions 6 through 8.
 

I see the same problem with IE. The knowledge base says that one should remove the "no-cache" statement from the header, but that has strange side effects: Assume you export a logbook to a CSV file, and a few days later you export it again, since many things changed. But you browser will in that case not retrieve the new logbook, but read the old CSV file from the cache. But the browser does not tell you this, so you see an old version of the logbok without knowing this, which can be dangerous. So I better leave the "no-cache" in the header. The workaroung is not to click on "Save" on the file download dialog, but on "Open". You see then the CSV data inside the browser and can copy/paste it into a notepad document, then save it. 

 Ah, now this is humorous, when the client first came to me, that was almost exactly the work around I gave him, open it, CTRL-A to highlight it all, CTRL-C to copy it, Move to the excel spreadsheet, CTRL-V to paste it into Excel. Select Data, Text to Columns, and you have an Excel Spreadsheet.   They wanted me to post the change in function anyway, though I told Vamsi, "just watch, someone will post the same workaround that I already gave to the clients".  So you see why I find it amusing.  I would say Great Minds Think Alike, but that would be giving myself a bit too much credit (grin).  First, thank you for proving me right on my prediction and if you should happen to make a change that would get around this SSL change in behavior, it would make a group of manufacturing types that are not quite as comfortable with computers as we are, very happy.   Please let us know.

  66548   Thu Sep 17 18:18:06 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux2.7.7Re: no "submit changes" pop-up with HTML editor
> When locks are enabled, users should see a pop-up window asking them to submit an entry if they edit an entry but then go away from that page or 
> close the browser without submitting the changes.  However, it only appears as though this works when using the plain or ELCode editors.  When 
> using the HTML editor, no such pop-up appears.
> 
> If possible, a fix for this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Devin

Thanks for reporting this problem, I fixed it in SVN revision 2256.
  66547   Thu Sep 17 15:52:36 2009 Question Holger Mundhahsholger.mundhahs@vtg.comBug reportWindows2.7.7-2246Change / List Change doen't work anymore?
Hello @all,

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but after upgradeing from 2.7.0 to 2.7.7 the Change <attribute> and List Change <attribute> doesn't work anymore. In my .cfg file I've:

Quote:
Change RIB-http = <a href="https://$RIB-Hostname/" target="_new">RIB-Board</a>
List Change RIB-http = <a href="https://$RIB-Hostname/" target="_new">RIB-Board</a>


In the old ELOG version I've "RIB-Board" as text in the page and the link works well. But now there is the following code generated:

Quote:
<tr><td nowrap class="attribname">RIB-http:</td><td class="attribvalue">
&lt;a href="<a href="https://RIB-COMPUTER/">https://RIB-COMPUTER/</a>" target="_new"&gt;RIB-Board&lt;/a&gt;&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

Is the syntax changed from 2.7.0 to 2.7.7? What's the correct syntax for 2.7.7?

Best regards
Holger
  66546   Wed Sep 16 23:54:12 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.6-2236Re: Elog & SSL Export to CSV , Problem

Chuck Brost wrote:

 

 

 

We use eLOG with IE. Once we turned on SSL, it is no longer possible to "Export to CSV" and save the output.

The error that we get is:

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

This is documented on Microsoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431

It is considered a feature with no fix. Basically the browser is honoring a request from the server which is "Pragma: no-cache". Problem can be reproduced in IE versions 6 through 8.
 

I see the same problem with IE. The knowledge base says that one should remove the "no-cache" statement from the header, but that has strange side effects: Assume you export a logbook to a CSV file, and a few days later you export it again, since many things changed. But you browser will in that case not retrieve the new logbook, but read the old CSV file from the cache. But the browser does not tell you this, so you see an old version of the logbok without knowing this, which can be dangerous. So I better leave the "no-cache" in the header. The workaroung is not to click on "Save" on the file download dialog, but on "Open". You see then the CSV data inside the browser and can copy/paste it into a notepad document, then save it. 

  66545   Wed Sep 16 16:37:35 2009 Question Chuck BrostBrost_chuck@solarturbines.comQuestionWindows2.7.6-2236Elog & SSL Export to CSV , Problem

 

We use eLOG with IE. Once we turned on SSL, it is no longer possible to "Export to CSV" and save the output.

The error that we get is:

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

This is documented on Microsoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431

It is considered a feature with no fix. Basically the browser is honoring a request from the server which is "Pragma: no-cache". Problem can be reproduced in IE versions 6 through 8.
 

  66544   Mon Sep 14 13:05:35 2009 Agree Gillian Sabbertonelog@gks.thamespower.comOtherOther?Re: Elog stopped working

Gillian Sabberton wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Gillian Sabberton wrote:

We have been running elog for a couple of years now and this morning it stopped working.

We have tried to rstart it and it says successful start but still does not run, when doing a restart it says stop failed start success.

Does anyone have any ideas.

thanks

You shoudl start elogd interactively in a DOS box to see if there is any error. Maybe disk full or a network problem... 

 It is running on a linux box, we have started in it in a telnet session, and no errors appear, as I am new to e-log is there an error log anywhere.

 Have fixed this by removing the last added user from the Passwd file.

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