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  66419   Thu Jun 25 15:02:55 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.7.6Re: Formatting list page data

Steve Williamson wrote:

Thanks for a great piece of software - it does so much and is (mostly) so simple to use.  However, I do have a suggestion that (for me, at least) would make it even better -

I use elog for a variety of logging tasks but find that, because I want to see as complete a summary as possible, the list page can get very crowded with longer fields wrapping over several lines.  I would like to have more control over the way attributes are displayed here.  Specifically, being able to truncate data (e.g. to show just the first n characters of a description), being able to select a substring (e.g. displaying characters before the '@' character to remove the domain from an email address or displaying characters after the space to remove the day from a date in ddd dd/mm/yy format) and being able to concatenate fields (e.g. to show a reference in a single cell as "Incident 1234" by joining call type and call reference attributes).

regards

Steve

Something along these lines is however not implemented (and hard to do). The only chance you have is to export your data into a spreadsheet and do the reformatting/report generation there. 

  66420   Thu Jun 25 15:37:14 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: Export and save problem with IE7

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi

Would it be possible to use the "Export to:" function with IE7 on the Forum logbook, and save the logbook.

I can do the export but saving the file with IE7 does not work. Saving the file with Firefox, Chrome, Safari works.

This makes me think that E-log is good and IE7 is bad ?

Soren 

Right   

It seems to be a well known probmel with IE: http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/files/directories-fso/how-do-i-send-the-correct-filename-with-binarywrite.html 

So I tried all variations there, but none of them worked. The interesting thing is that it works if you use it locally, but not with the forum (which has an additional "/elogs" in the URL).

 

 

  66423   Thu Jun 25 22:58:01 2009 Question weiluolwsy711@gmail.comQuestionLinux2.7.6attached picture size changed

Hello everyone.
Here I found a problem recently with attaching screen-shot to the elog.
I am using "elog -f xxx/xxx.gif" to make elog entry. Recently I found my attached pictures were scaled to the half of the original size horizontally appearing in the log entry, the other half of the picture was filled with black. I need to click it once to magnify the picture to see it.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? It bugs me a lot.

By the way, I saw some pictures were produced with the name "xxx.gif.png" in the logbook directory.
Thanks, and one of the modified picture is attached.

Attachment 1: 3.gif.png
3.gif.png
  66424   Fri Jun 26 08:15:16 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: attached picture size changed

weiluo wrote:

Hello everyone.
Here I found a problem recently with attaching screen-shot to the elog.
I am using "elog -f xxx/xxx.gif" to make elog entry. Recently I found my attached pictures were scaled to the half of the original size horizontally appearing in the log entry, the other half of the picture was filled with black. I need to click it once to magnify the picture to see it.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? It bugs me a lot.

By the way, I saw some pictures were produced with the name "xxx.gif.png" in the logbook directory.
Thanks, and one of the modified picture is attached.


When you submit a picture, elogd calls the ImageMagick package to generate a thumbnail out of it, therefore you get the "xxx.gif.png" file (which represents the thumbnail). If you create your GIF images with the ROOT package, ImageMagick will give problems because ROOT does not use standard GIF encoding, therefor the black border on your pictures. You can turn off the thumbnail generation completely by specifying
Thumbnail size = 0

in the configuration file. This option was just introduced recently, so please update to SVN revision 2227 for this option to work.
  66426   Fri Jun 26 14:34:58 2009 Reply Steve WilliamsonStephenWilliamson@Barnsley.gov.ukRequestLinux2.7.6Re: Formatting list page data

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Steve Williamson wrote:

Thanks for a great piece of software - it does so much and is (mostly) so simple to use.  However, I do have a suggestion that (for me, at least) would make it even better -

I use elog for a variety of logging tasks but find that, because I want to see as complete a summary as possible, the list page can get very crowded with longer fields wrapping over several lines.  I would like to have more control over the way attributes are displayed here.  Specifically, being able to truncate data (e.g. to show just the first n characters of a description), being able to select a substring (e.g. displaying characters before the '@' character to remove the domain from an email address or displaying characters after the space to remove the day from a date in ddd dd/mm/yy format) and being able to concatenate fields (e.g. to show a reference in a single cell as "Incident 1234" by joining call type and call reference attributes).

regards

Steve

Something along these lines is however not implemented (and hard to do). The only chance you have is to export your data into a spreadsheet and do the reformatting/report generation there. 

 Thanks for looking at the suggestion - it was only a 'nice to have', whereas elog is an essential!

regards

  66427   Fri Jun 26 17:04:23 2009 Reply weiluolwsy711@gmail.comQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: attached picture size changed

Stefan Ritt wrote:

weiluo wrote:

Hello everyone.
Here I found a problem recently with attaching screen-shot to the elog.
I am using "elog -f xxx/xxx.gif" to make elog entry. Recently I found my attached pictures were scaled to the half of the original size horizontally appearing in the log entry, the other half of the picture was filled with black. I need to click it once to magnify the picture to see it.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? It bugs me a lot.

By the way, I saw some pictures were produced with the name "xxx.gif.png" in the logbook directory.
Thanks, and one of the modified picture is attached.


When you submit a picture, elogd calls the ImageMagick package to generate a thumbnail out of it, therefore you get the "xxx.gif.png" file (which represents the thumbnail). If you create your GIF images with the ROOT package, ImageMagick will give problems because ROOT does not use standard GIF encoding, therefor the black border on your pictures. You can turn off the thumbnail generation completely by specifying
Thumbnail size = 0

in the configuration file. This option was just introduced recently, so please update to SVN revision 2227 for this option to work.


Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! It works!
  66449   Mon Jul 20 09:26:41 2009 Question lancelance1.hayward@yahoo.comBug reportWindows2.7.6Elog Crashes
Stefan,
 
Our log is crashing on a regular basis and I have been unable to identify the reason. Now the if the log crashes that is not a major problem however when you try to stop the daemon from the services it fails to stop. This means that the daemon cannot be restarted. The only way then is to start killing processes. This is not something I want none experienced guys to do.
 
Looking at the processes is look like the elogd.exe is still running and doesn’t die when you try to stop the daemon service.
 
I checked the times it was crashing with events in the elog logfiles but there was nothing actually happening at these times. It seems something is causing it to just hang.
 
I have attached the eventlog files for you if you have any ideas I would appreciate them.
 
I have not run the log in verbose mode as I have thus far been unable to redirect the output of the screen in order to see what is happening. If you have any tips on how to redirect the output I would save the file for off line analysis. Our log is used 24/7 therefore it is critical that it be kept running so if I was to run it with the –v option the guys would have to restart it and I would lose the data.
 
Any help is much appreciated
 
 
Regards,
 
Lance
Attachment 1: Elog_crash_events.doc
  66450   Mon Jul 20 10:30:44 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.7.6Re: Elog Crashes

lance wrote:
Stefan,
 
Our log is crashing on a regular basis and I have been unable to identify the reason. Now the if the log crashes that is not a major problem however when you try to stop the daemon from the services it fails to stop. This means that the daemon cannot be restarted. The only way then is to start killing processes. This is not something I want none experienced guys to do.
 
Looking at the processes is look like the elogd.exe is still running and doesn’t die when you try to stop the daemon service.
 
I checked the times it was crashing with events in the elog logfiles but there was nothing actually happening at these times. It seems something is causing it to just hang.
 
I have attached the eventlog files for you if you have any ideas I would appreciate them.
 
I have not run the log in verbose mode as I have thus far been unable to redirect the output of the screen in order to see what is happening. If you have any tips on how to redirect the output I would save the file for off line analysis. Our log is used 24/7 therefore it is critical that it be kept running so if I was to run it with the –v option the guys would have to restart it and I would lose the data.
 
Any help is much appreciated
 
 
Regards,
 
Lance

Using the Windows event log won't help much. I guess in your case elogd is driven into some kind of endless loop (does the CPU go to 100%???). There are only two possibilities to tackle this:

1) You find a way to reliably reproduce this problem, tell me how to do this. When I can reproduce it here, I can fix it easily.

2) You do debugging yourself. Under Linux this is simple, since you have debuggers on most systems. Under Windows however, you first have to install the Visual C++ development environment. I believe there is a free version (Express?) which you can use. You then run elogd under the debugger, and when it hangs you investigate where. This needs some basic knowledge about C++ development and I'm not sure if you have this, but maybe you can find someone around you who does. 

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