Hi,

I recently upgraded elog from 2.7 to 3.1 and have a hard time to insert images inline. The attachements work just fine. I am certain it is something silly, but I cannot figure it out.

1. In edit mode, I click the image icon
2. A pop-up "Image Propertied" shows with two tabs "Image Info" and "Upload" (selected)
3. Click on Browse button and select an image
4. Now
   • if I click OK, I get an error "Image source URL is missing".
   • if I go to "Image Info" tab - what URL am I supposed to enter, 68757/<1> ?

I found an old thread elog:68410 (from 2016) but could not find a solution that would work for me. Where does "Preview attachments" option should be inserted? In the global section?

Hopefully there's a simple explanation for this

Piotr

Before you click OK on your point 4, click on "Send to Server".

Stefan

I did just that. The image was properly send to the server (it appears in the attachement list). However clicking OK still produces "Image source URL is missing".

What is the URL that refers to an attachment? I've tried 68759/<1> and 68759/1 and even elog:1234/<1> (where 1234).

Got it to work.  Removed "Preview attachments = 1" from the global section.

Thanks for your help.

Piotr

Hi!

Tryed windows an linux version. On booth the "Register new User" dialog is not displaying a password line.
so what password is used for the new user? Further the user can't change his password, because he didn't know the old one.

And if an admin user trys to change the password of an other user, a error is displyed that the old password of the admin user is
wrong and nothing happens with the password of the non-admin user.

elog console (admin user awrzkrz changes the password of testuser1):

GET /demo/?cmd=Config&config=TestUser1&cfgpage=1&admin=1&cfg_user=TestUser1&active=1&new_user_name=TestUser1&new_full_name=TEST+User&new_user_email=test%40heaven.org&cmd=Change+password HTTP/1.1
Returned 1032 bytes
GET /demo/?config=TestUser1&newpwd=test1234&newpwd2=test1234 HTTP/1.1
Returned 20 bytes
GET /demo/?cmd=Change%20password&config=awrzkrz&fail=1 HTTP/1.1
Returned 1215 bytes
 

Thanks for help!

Have you configures user-level access via

password file = anyfile.pwd

Can your elogd server write to that file?

If yes, can you please post your config file?

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, i've configured user-level access. Here is my cfg:

[global]
port = 9191
Usr = abc
Grp = abc
SMTP host = mail.xy.at
Protect Selection page =  1
Password file = elog_pw.xml
Logfile = elog_log.txt
Logging level = 2
Admin user = User1, Admin
Self register = 2
Restrict edit = 1
Allow password change = 1

[demo]
Theme = default
Authentication = Kerberos
Comment = General Linux Tips & Tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine, Software Installation, Problem Fixed, Configuration, Oth                                                          er
Options Category = General, Hardware, Software, Network, Other
Extendable Options = Category
Required Attributes = Author, Type
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Type

And, yes, the password file is r7w accessible for the elogd:
[root@localhost logbooks]# cat elog_pw.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- created by MXML on Tue Feb 27 14:54:52 2018 -->
<list>
  <user>
    <name>Admin</name>
    <password encoding="SHA256">3c2QQ0KjIU1OLtB29cl8Fplc2WN7X89bnoEjaR7tWu.</password>
    <full_name>Admin</full_name>
    <last_logout>0</last_logout>
    <last_activity>0</last_activity>
    <email>admin@hell.org</email>
    <inactive>0</inactive>
    <email_notify/>
  </user>
  <user>
    <name>TestUser1</name>
    <password encoding="SHA256">3c2QQ0KjIU1OLtB29cl8Fplc2WN7X89bnoEjaR7tWu.</password>
    <full_name>User1</full_name>
    <last_logout>0</last_logout>
    <last_activity>0</last_activity>
    <email>test@heaven.org</email>
    <inactive>0</inactive>
    <email_notify/>
  </user>
</list>
 

br, Rainer

password file = anyfile.pwd

I'm afraid that there is something wrong because each user will be written with the same (hashed) password to the local password file,
irrespective of the given password within the "new User dialog".

So for instance, every user in my password file lokks like this:

    <name>TestUser1</name>
    <password encoding="SHA256">3c2QQ0KjIU1OLtB29cl8Fplc2WN7X89bnoEjaR7tWu.</password>
    <full_name>TEST User</full_name>
    <last_logout>0</last_logout>
    <last_activity>0</last_activity>
    <email>test@heaven.org</email>
    <inactive>0</inactive>
    <email_notify/>
  </user>
 

"password encoding" has got the same value for each user after creating them with their own passwords....

That's the main issue i have, because i don't know this password and can't set a known one....

frustrating....

any help would be appreciated

password file = anyfile.pwd

What happens when you don't use Kerberos authentication?

password file = anyfile.pwd

Yeah!!

That did it! I remove the line "Kerberos authentication" and now it works!

Thanks!

password file = anyfile.pwd

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.