My elog has a field for entering a list of email addresses, which goes into the "Email All" attribute. They need to be comma-separated, and an error is thrown if semicolons are used instead. Would it be possible to automatically change semicolons into commas before attempting to send the mail via SMTP? Neither character is allowed in email addresses so it shouldn't break anything to just do that silently. Thanks!

In response to an elog-hang issue I've been having on the Windows platform, I am building a new Unbuntu 14 TLS VM machine to host the identical configuration so that I can more easily debug when the hang happens again. I don't mind beefing up the hardware resources to either eliminiate that as a factor or resolve the problem. I'll have a higher end CPU to deal with 20 to 50 clients doing searches through the data (since the elog configuration currently does not provide a setting to limit how far back it can search with Quick Filters - pretty please add this basic setting!), but the main question I have now is what is a good amount of memory to add to the VM? I suspect even with 30 concurrent searches going CPU power will have more impact than memory in the case of elog. Can someone please confirm my suspicion and also recommend a suitable amount of memory I should install? My data volume is about 25 MB, all textual (no attachmemts), and the number of daily files goes back about 5 years. Any other tips for the build is very welcome.

Hi Alan,

Cheers, Andreas

Is there anyone out there who can help me get started using javascript in elog ?  Is there an example somewhere ... i suppose you put the code in the
scripts folder?

Basically I am trying to calculate age of an added person in the database and display it after the birthdate field.  I  want to do other stuff, but once I know how 
the interaction is done I can proceed.

Thankx heaps

Great job btw with this ELOG ... been using it for years now.  I see you can add forms with html also, this might interest me for the future.

This logbook, the forum, provides some javascript code. The code is simply referenced in the footer (Bottom text = <file> | <string>).

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.6.0/styles/default.min.css"><script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.6.0/highlight.min.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script>

There's another example under elog:contributions/39

Cheers, Andreas

Hello,

Is it possible to edit the entire elog config file via the elog frontend?  I see the config button 
on some screens but it only allows me to change user and password??

Thankx

On the right side of "Change password" you should find "Change config file".

But you'll only see this, if the user has admin priviledges defined in the config file: "Admin user = <user>"

Then you can edit the configuration of that logbook. At the top you'll have a button "Change [global]" to edit the global part of the configuration - if you have the relevant priviledges to do so.

Hi Stefan,

Andreas

Just an update: I've re-compiled, reinstalled and restarted elogd for other reasons and now the corrupted strings are all gone. Everthing looks fine now.

But I never worry when a problem goes away before I could understand it: I'm confident that I will have plenty of time later, when the problem magically re-appears - likely I'll be called on a Friday night :-)

When one has "Allow HTML = 1" to permit HTML in attribute values, is it only a subset of HTML that is rendered?

I find that <br> and <a href="..."> tags are properly rendered, for example, but lists with <ol> and <ul> are not.

• As you can see...
• <UL> is possible

Isn't that list in the message text rather than as an attribute value?

Sorry, I misread your question. Only following HTML tags are allowed in attributes:

<a>
<img>
<b>
<i>
<p>
<br>
<hr>

This is for some internal reason. Probably you can mimick <ul> with bullets and <p> tags.

Stefan

Exactly the information I was after - thanks!  I'll simulate fancier markup as necessary.

Hi Stefan,

PS: Here's a patch that works:

I've quickly checked: there are a couple more commands in the source code that are not language encoded. I guess some of them needs correction.

> egrep -n "cmd=[A-Za-z]" elogd.c
10293:   rsprintf("    r.open('GET', '?jcmd=Unlock&edit_id=%d', true);\n", message_id);
11784:                      ("<label for=\"ELCode\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"?cmd=HelpELCode\">ELCode</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>\n");
13663:                                "\r\n%s URL         : %s?cmd=Config&cfg_user=%s&unm=%s\r\n", loc("Logbook"),
14562:      redirect(lbs, "?cmd=Config");
14625:      sprintf(str, "../%s/?cmd=Config", getparam("lbname"));
14678:      sprintf(str, "../%s/?cmd=Config", lbn);
15703:   combine_url(lbs, host, "?cmd=GetMD5", url, sizeof(url), &ssl);
16378:         strcat(str, "?cmd=GetConfig"); // request complete config file
16380:         strcat(str, "?cmd=Download");  // request config section of logbook
16570:      strcat(str, "?cmd=GetPwdFile");   // request password file
17575:            rsprintf("<br><b><a href=\"../%s/?cmd=Synchronize&confirm=1\">", lbs->name_enc);
17577:            rsprintf("<br><b><a href=\"%s/?cmd=Synchronize&confirm=1\">", lbs->name_enc);
17579:            rsprintf("<br><b><a href=\"../%s/?cmd=Synchronize&confirm=1\">", lbs->name_enc);
18959:   if (strstr(ref, "cmd=Search&"))
18960:      strlcpy(strstr(ref, "cmd=Search&"), strstr(ref, "cmd=Search&") + 11, sizeof(str));
26728:         rsprintf("<a href=\"?cmd=Synchronize\">%s</a></td>\n", loc("Synchronize all logbooks"));
 

Hi,

I am currently trying to configuring elog top groups, which are supposed to separate from each other. However, I would like to have a common logbook that should be visible in each group. Is there a way to share logbooks among Top Groups for example

Top Group Electronics = Elec1, Elec_EEE, Ele2

Top Group Processing  = P_AA1, PPP2, Elec_EEE

Top Group Monitoring = Mon1, Mon2, Mon3, Mon4

Top Group Data = Data1, PPP2, Data2

I would like logbook to be viewed:

• Electronics:
  • Elec1
  • Elec_EEE
  • Ele2
• Processing:
  • P_AA1
  • PPP2
  • Elec_EEE
• Monitoring:
  • Mon1
  • Mon2
  • Mon3
  • Mon4
• Data:
  • Data1
  • PPP2
  • Data2
  • Mon3
  • Mon4

Could you please suggest me if it is possible to set in this way (Color codes t show the common sharing).

Many thanks and regards,

satyajit

I don't know if that works. Why don't you just try?

Hi,

I tried without success. Logbook is not sharing, it is displaying only under one "Top Group" whereever it appears first.

With regards,

satyajit

Probably there are ways to achieve your desired behaviour (using mirror servers and synchronising the logbooks) but that would require a large effort and would make your installation a lot more complicated.

With kind regards, Andreas