There are several options:

• Use a bookmark in your browser. Put a link directly "Punch" and "Maintenance" in the link list of your browser and you can directly jump to that logbook. Different users can define different bookmarks in their browsers.
• Change the order of the logbooks in the group, like put "Punch" to be the first one in your group. But if you have different users with different permissions this will of course not work for all.
• Give up groups and just keep a linear list of logbooks. 

2. is not possible. Even if you use "Protect selection page", you will always be redirected to the first logbook after logging in. Maybe I should change that.

This is not possible at the moment. Sounds to me more like a calendar function. What you could do however is to define an attribute of type "datetime", which you can populate with the expiration date. Then you can do a search to look for entries which are past the expiration date. But you have to do that manually like once per day or so. 

Thank you for your reply and the tip.

People can allways use another app (mail) for this, it would be nice,nothing more.

> I just noticed the problem of mail notification with big attachments. For a
> files or photos exchange setup we could run into load and bandwidth problem
> quickly. Any way to restrict mail notification by attributes or without
> attachment?

Use

Email format = 6

to restrict email notifications to URL and attributes only (without
attachment). A size limit for email notifications is right now not implemented.

> Use
> 
> Email format = 6
> 
> to restrict email notifications to URL and attributes only (without
> attachment). A size limit for email notifications is right now not implemented.

Thanks... Email format = 6 works. It cut out the subject too.
Any documentation on Email Format = ??
Thanks,
nait.

> > Use
> > 
> > Email format = 6
> > 
> > to restrict email notifications to URL and attributes only (without
> > attachment). A size limit for email notifications is right now not implemented.
> 
> Thanks... Email format = 6 works. It cut out the subject too.
> Any documentation on Email Format = ??

This feature is normally documentd at http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html (search
for "Email Format" on this page). The Email subject is included, but the first line
of the email body is cut out with format = 6. Maybe you want format = 7 if you need
that line.

> If my email host refuses to send the email (476 connections denied), we
> still get the message that the email has been sent - and no error message.
> 
> How do I or can I send authentication information to the email server?

This is not implemented right now, since the SMTP server at our institute does
not use authentication, so I could not test it. If you give me access to a
SMTP server with authentication, I could implement it.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I have fixed it in SVN revision 2407.