ELOG Forum

changing the default to plain text rather than elcode

2.5.9+r167

Hi

I just shifted our elogs to a new server and in the process upgraded to the latest debian version which is 2.5.9+r1674-1. I am just wondering how to change the default for the text body area from "elcode" to plain text? I can't see anything in the admin configuration syntax guide and the HTML default = 2 option no longer seems to work.

Also is there anything in particular that you have to do to get the elcode editor to work. Although the elcode buttons appear highlighting text and clicking on them doesn't actually do anything although it works fine in my browser when using these elog forums. I don't get any errors in mozilla but trying it in IE under cxoffice gives an "error on page" message in the bottom of the browser.

Thanks
John

1353

Thu Jul 28 01:02:00 2005

John Habermann

john.habermann@wilderness.org.au

Bug report

problem with list display attribute

2.5.9+r16

I not sure if this has been found and fixed as I did find something to do with the list display attribute in the forums but wasn't sure if it was the same thing.

There seems to be a bug with the List Display attribute in that it drops the last attribute of the list. So in my example if I want to display the Subject in my list I have to add a dummy attribute after it otherwise the Subject will not be displayed. The comma after Subject is not enough, but all you have to do is to add 1 letter and then you will see the subject in List view. If you don't all I see is the Date and Author fields and then the Text field in my Summary view in the log book.

List Display = Date,Author,Subject,t

I am running elog 2.5.9+r1674-1 on Debian sarge.

66859

Tue Jul 27 10:46:27 2010

Johan Schuring

johan.schuring@getronics.com

Mail when elog entry is expired

All

2.7.5

Hi,

Is it possible to set a timestamp on an elog entry say for about 5 days in the future, when it is expired and there are no modifications with the entry you will get a mail.

I cannot find it with search in this forum or is the guides.

It can be very handy when it is possible.

When it is not available, is it possible to make a feature request for it.

Thank you,

Johan

66861

Tue Jul 27 15:48:19 2010

Johan Schuring

johan.schuring@getronics.com

Re: Mail when elog entry is expired

All

2.7.5

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Johan Schuring wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to set a timestamp on an elog entry say for about 5 days in the future, when it is expired and there are no modifications with the entry you will get a mail.

I cannot find it with search in this forum or is the guides.

It can be very handy when it is possible.

When it is not available, is it possible to make a feature request for it.

This is not possible at the moment. Sounds to me more like a calendar function. What you could do however is to define an attribute of type "datetime", which you can populate with the expiration date. Then you can do a search to look for entries which are past the expiration date. But you have to do that manually like once per day or so.

Thank you for your reply and the tip.

People can allways use another app (mail) for this, it would be nice,nothing more.

1132

Mon May 9 11:45:05 2005

How to remove email addresses from Guest Display?

2.5.9-1

Hi,

I would like to have the author email addresses listed only for users which
have logged in, but not for guest users. In the elogd.cfg file I have:

Attributes = Author, Author Email, Category, Subject
Guest Display = Author, Category, Subject, Text

But these attributes

  ID Date Author Author Email Category Subject Text

are shown also when visting the logbook as a guest. For the guests I would
like to show only these attributes

  ID Date Author Category Subject Text

Any ideas what I am doing wrong or why this does not work?

Johan

1135

Mon May 9 16:37:08 2005

Re: How to remove email addresses from Guest Display?

2.5.9-1

> > I would like to have the author email addresses listed only for users which
> > have logged in, but not for guest users. In the elogd.cfg file I have:
> > 
> > Attributes = Author, Author Email, Category, Subject
> > Guest Display = Author, Category, Subject, Text
> > 
> > But these attributes
> > 
> >   ID Date Author Author Email Category Subject Text
> > 
> > are shown also when visting the logbook as a guest. For the guests I would
> > like to show only these attributes
> > 
> >   ID Date Author Category Subject Text
> > 
> > Any ideas what I am doing wrong or why this does not work?
> 
> Guest List Display = Author, Category, Subject, Text
>       ^^^^
> 
> - Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the prompt answer and sorry for not reading the docs carefully enough.
The "Guest List Display" is of course what I should use. It works perfectly. And
thanks for the fantastic and very useful ELOG package!

Johan

1465

Sat Oct 15 16:50:25 2005

How to connect to an ELOG server running behind apache+ssl using the elog command line program?

2.6.0

Hi,

I need to post a large number of "old" messages to one of my logbooks and I am trying to modify the script doelog (see http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Contributions/10) to suit my needs. I am using apache + ssl for secure logins to my ELOG server. The doelog script uses the elog utility program, which is useful for posting ELOG messages from scripts or from the command line. My problem is that I cannot talk to my ELOG server with elog.
Here is what happens:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ elog -v -h my.server.org -p 443 -l mylogbook -a Category=Other-u myusername mypasswd testmsg

Successfully connected to host my.server.org, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /mylogbook/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------1028A8C27FFD1021AAB342B
Host: my.host.org
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 811

Content sent to host.
Response received:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br />
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br />
<blockquote>Hint: <a href="https://my.server.org/"><b>https://my.server.org/</b></a></blockquote></p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at <a href="webmaster@my.server.org">my.server.org</a> Port 443</address>
</body></html>

Error transmitting message
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Access to the logbook works perfectly if I use a web browser. If I can find out how to use the elog command line program to connect to my ELOG server running behind apache+ssl, I think I can change the doelog script to suit my needs. Any help is appreciated.

Johan

1469

Mon Oct 17 11:07:10 2005