> Hello,
> I have been running Elog for a long time on a variety of RedHat releases,
> (this is a terrific project by the way). Currently running Elog v2.5.7 on 
> RedHat (Fedora Core-II) and most is working great excepting being able to 
> modify the default fonts being used by Elog when trying to write and save 
> in text mode while in Elog's main editing screen. 
> 
> On my setup the font size is way too small and to work around this problem 
> I write and save everything in HTML mode. I've browsed the Elog css file 
> but don't yet see where or how to properly set the default font style or 
> size for the main screen in the editor. Can you shed some light on this for 
> me?

The text style of the main message text is defined in the following lines in the
CSS field:

.messagepre {
  font-family:'lucida console',courier,monospace;
  font-size:10pt;
}

Locate these lines and change 10pt to 12pt or even 14pt.

The "standard" HTML protocol does not allow multiple selection of images. You can use the "elog" command-line utility to upload images from the terminal window. We plan in the summer this year a switch to HTML5, which does allow upload of multiple images plus a drag-and-drop functionality.

/Stefan

No. Just install the new version over the old one.

thanx, so in linux I just need to install over the old ones?

I thought there are additional step on linux, hehehe thanx for the help sir

Dear John,

I am a user of the elog system and no developer, so no complete answer guaranteed.

The quote of the manual describes the case, if e.g. an hardware component discovers a failure and the connected PC makes an automatic (new) entry to the elog. Probably modifying an existing one.

I have small concerns on your solution. The description of your alarm system sounds the other ways around, as you are doing something, depending on the elog entries. Based on your statement on JS and dedicated start page, you want to do it on client-side and not on the server. Where I can see the issue, if there is not client, then there is no alarm. As you want to change the date of the entries, I believe, you want to reuse the same entries multiple (infinite?) times instead of creating new ones. The later would be the style of an logging software like elog.

As far as I know, the Date attribute is special and cannot be changed by submitting something to the elog server. as this would make "Restrict edit time" useless. You can try it with this in your config:
Subst on edit Date = $date
Making an entry and edit it afterwards. The entry time stays the same.
If you really want to use this attribute, you have to do some scripting to the actual saved .log files, but this is not intended as I believe.

What you can do, is using an alternative attribute like "MDate" with the config:
Subst MDate = $date
Subst on edit MDate = $date
This will update every time you edit the entry.
Then you probably want to add something like this to your config
List display = ID, MDate, Author, ...

Or "Update" using the duplicate function on the old entry, where you want to change the date, creating a new one with the same content.
Or "Update" using the reply function to create a new entry, referring to the old one.

I hope, I could help.
Best wishes,
Sebastian

Hi Sebastian!

Thank you soo much for your kind response. You are correct in all of your assumptions as to what I want to do (or not do!). Everything should be on clients side, and I want the date to be updated in each record, daily, or hourly, in order to allow the 'alarm' system I created to be able to give notice (a pop up ,or whatever) when the time as passed, for whatever time/date the user set the alarm for.

I believe this has been asked in general in the past and  suggetions were to have the data updated in onther program (spreadsheet) or whatever, as you implied, by changing the database directly (log files). This is not the way I want to do, even though I realize it would accomplish this task. I want to just use Elog and probably JS.

I will try your ideas and when I am done (successful or not!) I will report my findings back here :)

John

Sorting does work fine, if you do it correctly. From your post I cannot even guess what you've tried - let alone tell you what you did wrong.

Please post your config, some example entries and a description of what you've tried, what you expected to happen and what actually happened. Screenshots are often very useful as well.

Hi Andrea and thank you soo much  for your kind and prompt reply! I believe the issue will be solved as I have the information I need to proceed. I was just wanting to verify that sorting indeed is alloud on ALL fields.  I cannot send the exact config as it is a work project, but I can replicate with fake fields and data if necessary in the future. I believe my errors are because I am either using field names which are 'special' to the system, or some other limitation. I will try compiling and see if that helps. 

John