I found a sequence which hides the message from the list.
In addition this sequence corrupts UTF encoding of the text.

1. create new message
2. submit it
3. Edit this message again
4. click SAVE and then exit the editor (click Logbook name in the header or BACK in the browser)
5. message disappeared from the list!
6. by clicking NEW message I found my lost one in the drafts, but all text was corrupted.

I've made small GIF presentation on this issue (attached, open in new window), may be this helps.

The message is not lost, but becomes a "draft". This works similar in most email systems. When you edit an email and son't send it, it stays in your "draft" email folder and does not show up in your "sent" folder. Same here. You are suppost to "submit" you entry, the "save" is just a temporary safety backup. If you do not submit (if you press BACK or your browser crashes), the entry is not submitted to the system, but stays around as a draft. If you create a new message, the system asks you to edit and finish your draft, so that it does not get lost. So always hit "submit" if you are finished editing a message, not just "save". 

If you want to see the draft message, they are rendered in red in the normal message list if you have

List drafts = 1

in your config file. No ide where your cluttering comes from. 

Stefan

Dear Stefan,

Thanks for quick reply.
I checked List drafts = 1 in config file - it does not show drafts in the list in my case.
Can it be blocked by any other option?
I have these options enabled:

Use Lock = 1
Save drafts = 1
List drafts = 1
 

Peter.

You might have to update to the current elog version. This feature was implemented in Dec. 2016. 

Stefan

We installed our elog from .apk in November 2017.

Version V3.1.2-bd75964

I suppose it already contains List drafts feature.

The -bd... number must be from the .apk package, which I don't have control over. You have to check the elog git hash code. You see it at the bottom of each elog web page. For this forum server, it's ELOG V3.1.2-7933898 with 7 digit number at the end.

yes, that is exactly where I got this V3.1.2-bd75964 version!

Do you recommend to download it again from your site and compile?

Tell me your current seven digit number and I can check if your version is too old.

https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog/commits/all?search=bd75964

Dear Stefan and Andreas,

We have updated our elog to V3.1.3-7933898, now I see the drafts in the list!

Thanks a lot for your help!

I have just upgraded elog from 2.9.2 -> 3.1.3.

3.1.3 runs fine with new logbooks. However, when trying to run 3.1.3 with my logbooks created with 2.9.2 things stop working.

Here is the command I run for testing [attachment 1]: first of all it takes a very long time (~ 10 minutes) for it to index the logbooks. When finished indexing I try it out in a web browser - it takes infinite time to load: no error message appears but also no logbook. After an hour or so elogd crashes without an error message.

When running 2.9.2 on the same machine, all runs wel (attachment 2)

cfd file: (I only left in one logbook - they are all configured the same)

[global]
port = 18080
Logging level = 3
Max content length = 500000000
Date format = %A, %d %B %Y

[Logrun - Amptek]
Theme = default
Comment = Logrun Amptec
Reverse sort = 0
Quick filter = Date, Type

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Hi Andreas,

Thanks - you pointed me in the right direction. It appears that my logbooks were a combination of the two versions. I had all the year-directories (version 3) but also all the entry files in the main logbook directory. Seems version 2 does not care but version 3 does not like it. After carefully checking and removing all the logbook files in the main directory version 3 now works.

Cheers,

  Yves

Dear elog community,

We have a problem with elog V3.1.2-bd75964.
Sometimes entries disappear from the list after editing.
I found them in the .log files with attributes

Locked by:
Draft:

But they are not in the list anymore!
The only solution by now is manually remove these two attributes from the file,
but this is terrible.

How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Peter.

Drafts are message which somebody started to edit, but did not complete, like leaving the page without saving. If you don't like this, you can set "save drafts = 0".

The locking has a similar background. If you have locking on (vis "Use lock = 1"), then one person can "lock" a message, and other then cannot edit the same message. If you don't want that, switch locking off.

Best,
Stefan

Thanks for fast response!

I LIKE locking and saving drafts.
The only problem is that the locked message disappeared from the list.
This does not happen every time one left the editor, but sometimes.
I can send you the problematic message as it was disappeared, before I deleted Locked by and Draft attributes.
I can't imagine why it is not shown in the list.

I also experienced various sproradic issues with locking, so I usually keep it off.

Stefan

Dear elog community,

I wonder whether there is a python3 api or lib to generate and append entries (and attachments) to the logbook using scripts.
However, so far I did not find anything...

At the moment I am thinking about wrapping the "elog" command line tool.

Is there something usable already out there?

Thanks and regards
Markus

There are two options

• Wrap the "elog" command line tool 
• Use "curl". Ther is a PycURL library http://pycurl.io/docs/latest/ which can be used, so you don't have to call any command line tool. The usage of curl is described in elog:68597

Stefan

Have a look here: https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/py_elog

I haven't tried it myself, but it should allow you to add, reply, edit, delete elog entries from python (>= 3.5) via the http elog interface. It's an anaconda package.

Thanks Andreas!
This is more or less exactly what I was looking for...

Regards
Markus

The following error occured during the addition of new user, first time this occured:

"Cannot send email notification to "xxx@xxx.com" Sender address rejected: Domain not found

Please use your browser's back button to go back

We are using version 2.7.1-2002. Could this be a version issue? When we loaded the new version, the browser GUI was scrambled and illegible using Microsoft Edge/Explorer and Firefox.

This error comes from your email SMTP server, not from elog. It complains about the email address xxx@xxx.com which refers to a nonexisting domain. Just read the message.

Stefan

Can you please make a change to have the Quick Filter ComboBox controls reference the field type for ordering purposes?

For example, if attribute Lot Number is Type Numeric then the ComboBox should be listed in numerical order instead of alphanumeric (eg: 1,2,3,11,21 vs 1,11,2,21,3).

Best Regards.

Hello there,

Can anyone point out to me how I can avoid the unsafe browsing when accessing our local ELOG?  
Browsing with chrome and always getting the unsafe browsing page. One has to go through the advanced
button to continue ...

I once had my setup with SSL certificate (local signed, not through the CA) but I somehow cannot get it
to work anymore.   Just create a local certificate and copy the certificates to all browsers that access the ELOG site, no?

Anyway, a small guide would be great.

Safety is getting more and more an issue these days. Normal browsers don't accept self-signed certificates any more. One possibility is to get a certificate from https://letsencrypt.org/

Stefan

Hi all,

Some elog users of our site(CSNS) mentioned some advice about attachment:

1.Can imagemagick create thumbnail for .bmp file now?

2.Can re-sort the attachments after attachments uploaded by dragging or clicking up/down arrow or anything except deleting and re-upload attachment again?

3.Can add some description under the thumbnail of uploaded attachment? I've suggested them adding the description to the name of attchment or writing the detail in the text area. They are seem not very satisfied with this solution.

Any advice and suggestion will be appreciated.

Cheers