Hello,

I'm facing with a crash, which happen when I sort the entries by a datetime attribute (sort or rsort) and then i change the display mode from Full, Summary and Threaded.

For example, the elogd crashes when I try to connect from the Full display to Summary in sort mode. The issue presents for example by entering with the following URL:

http://host.name.com:8080/65+nm/?mode=summary&sort=Record+date

Can you please help me?

Here I reduced my elogd.cfg at minimum and I still get this issue:

[global]
port = 8080

[65 nm]
Attributes = Record date

Type Record date = datetime
Preset Record date = $date
List Display = Record date
Start page = ?sort=Record date

I tried your config file on my Mac and it just worked fine without any crash:

Could it be that on entry has corrupt data and is killing your server? Have you tried on a pristine new logbook?

Stefan

Hello Stefan, thanks for your answer. So I made a new logbook, without entries. I generated, as you, two new entries and I discover that this problem come out when in the URL the command for the sorting follow the command of the display mode. So for example the following URL give me the issue:

http://local.host.com:8080/65+nm/?mode=summary&sort=Record+date

But if I put:

http://local.host.com:8080/65+nm/?sort=Record+date&mode=summary

This last URL is working. This means that the issue come out, when I change the dispay mode by the buttons "Full, Summary, Threaded" and then I click on the Coloumn "Record date" for sorting it. Hope you understand and you can reproduce it. Many thanks

EDIT: I'm facing the same problem on another MAC with a fresh installation of elogd.

Still no luck. Tried your URL and still works fine for me:

Here is my full elogd.cfg:

[global]
port = 8080

[65 nm]
Attributes = Record date
Type Record date = datetime
Preset Record date = $date
List Display = Record date
Start page = ?sort=Record date

Anything else I coudl try to reproduce your error?

Ok I found it!

Was tricky. In my development environment (XCode) it worked fine. Only when I compiled elogd under Sierra on the command line, the probelm occured. That's why I did not see it earlier. It has to do with some functions Apple apparently changed ("strlcpy"). These function now have a new "functionality": When two parameters overlap, the function just aborts the process. This is specific to Sierre, so on any other Linux this does not happen. I changed now the soruce code to take care of the modified functions, and now it works fine. Please update to the newest GIT revision of elogd and recompile.

Stefan

Bug FIXED! Many thanks Stefan and my warmest congratulations for the elog project.

Stefano

Hi Stefano.

This may or may not have anything to do with your specific problem but I notice you have the single word "date" as part of your attribute name and Date is actually a reserved word in Elog. Although your attribute is not exclusively called "date" I have found that even using "date" as an isolated word within an attribute name (eg: Record date vs Record_date) can cause some issues. In my case, it caused a problem with the elog client when trying to update records which was only resolved when I changed the name of the attribute to Date/Time Received from Date and Time Received. Long story short, I avoid using any reserved words as part of attribute names.

Alan.

Hello Alan,

I tried with a new logbook with an attribute without "date" name, but unfortunately I got the same error. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Hi,

I am trying to install on MacOS Sierra. I believe that I have followed all the steps correctly, but the install is failing with the following error: 

Help appreciated!

Thanks,
Christina

If you look into the documentationa at:

http://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#unix

you will see that for Linux (as well asl MacOS) you need the libssl-dev packaged to be installed. There are many ways to install this on MacOS, I personally use the MacPorts distribution:

https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=openssl

Best regards,
Stefan

Oops!

I think that I must have skipped straight to the MacOS notes instead of reading the linux section properly.

Thanks for the help,

Christina

Well, the MacOS section explicitly mentions the MacPorts installation.

I responded too quickly.

I already have openssl installed via macports (this is the "Mac version" of libssl-dev).

Does anyone know where exactly elog is looking for openssl/ssl.h? I have just updated Macports and upgraded to Sierra, so maybe it's been dumped it in a different location.

Christina

My macports puts it under

/opt/local/include/openssl/ssl.h

On Sierra Macports install openssl in /opt/local/include/ , but copy it into /usr/local/include. You should able to fix it.

sudo cp -r /opt/local/include/openssl /usr/local/include/

On Sierre, /opt/local/include should be already included in the standar search path of the prprocessor:

/elog$ cpp -v
Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0
...
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /opt/local/include
 /usr/local/include
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/clang/8.0.0/include
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include
 /usr/include
 /System/Library/Frameworks (framework directory)
 /Library/Frameworks (framework directory)
End of search list.

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include

Hello :)

Is there any way to highlight code (for example php, SQL) in elogs entries?

Best Regards

Daniel Sajdyk

You can manually highlight code, but there is no automatic language parser.

I thought so.

One  more question :) I want manually add that parser (https://highlightjs.org), but I'm newby in that and don't know where ....

I know that downloaded hightlight pack I must put into folder scripts, but where to add this line:

<script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script>

I did not know about highlight.js . You can put it into any elog page with "Bottom text = ...". I tried it for this forum and put in some C code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

Seems like this works nicely. Thanks for that hint.

Looks like it works :)

Code need to be put in tags:

<pre><code class="sql">...</code></pre>

but it works.

Thank you :D

Best Regards

Daniel Sajdyk

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

In the HTML editor, you can select the code text, then select from the "Styles" drop-down the style "Computer Code", and on the "Normal" drop-down the formatting "Formatted". This puts the code in <pre>  and <code> tags, so you don't have to manipulate HTML directly.

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

Ok. Thanks a lot :)

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

Can I ask for some clarification; I would like to include code highlighting for some computational students who will be making use of ELOG. 

In the example you showed, my understanding is that you included a "Bottom text =... " entry in the forums elog config. This included the bare minimum remote call outlined by the highlightjs site. Can you clarify (as I'm having issues setting it up) should the "Bottom text=..." entry take this as a string, or should it be contained in a seperate html file in the same local directory as the cfg?

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

All I did was this:

Bottom Text = <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>

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

Thanks for the quicky reply Stefan. Yes, I had inut the same string! My error was not restarting the server; I've done this and code highlighting works fine.

Bottom Text = <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>

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   // printf() displays the string inside quotation
   printf("C Programming");
   return 0;
}

Hello users,

When I configure an attribute with "Type <attribute>= date", in the new entry form a clic on the calendar symbol does nothing.

Reading the source code I see it's trying to open a window named "cal.html" through javascript (function opencal) but this file doesn't exist anywhere in source elog files.

Thanks

Just last week I've downloaded the latest version of ELOG, compiled and installed it, and the date picker just works fine.

In my case it was an update of an existing installation. Can you provide a bit more information about your case: I guess it was a first time installation? Was is ELOG V3.1.2-754330e or a different GIT version?

Stefan, could you please add an attribute of type "datetime" and "date" to one of the demo logbooks? Currently there is non. Maybe to elog:Database? Then we can check if it is a client problem.

Cheers, Andreas

I put one in https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Database/?cmd=New

Could also be a pop-up blocker problem. Let's see.

Stefan

If the older elog has some customized file such as logbooks, elogd.cfg, elog.css, images and so on,  What's the best way to update elog to newer release? Is it the only way to copy these files to the new release?

Make a backup of all you files, then install the new version over the old one, keeping all customizations, then restart elog.

Hello,

I am using ELOG V2.9.2-2475.  I added some groups and restarted ELOG and all of a sudden it 

Hi, I have a logbook where users can add entries and edit entries.

The delete option has been removed from the menu, but when they edit an entry they are able to delete the entry.

Is there a way to remove the Delete option from the menu that appears when Editing an entry?

Please advise,

Thanks,

John

Save drafts = 0

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your reply, I did as suggested but the button "Delete" still appears when the edit entry is selected.

Am I overlooking something?

Regards,

John

No, I get a different result. If I put "Save drafts = 0" in the config example coming with the distribution, I get the following:

sot he "Delete" button is replaced by a "Back" button.

Probably you have an old version of elog, hava a typo on your config, or something like that.

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Found it, it was a typo.

Thanks for your patience and support.

Regards,

John

Dear all,

there seems to be still lots of confusion with the new "draft modus" introduced in elog 3.1.2. Here is how it works:

If you edit an old or new entry, your changes are written to the elog server every few seconds. The entry in the elog database is marked as "draft". The idea behind that is that if your browser crashes or you navigate away from the elog page without saving your entry, the "draft" entry is sill in the elog database and can be recovered later. This is typically useful on some shift logbooks, where people keep the entry open for many hours and add things every few minutes. If they have a crash, they would loose a few hours of information.

The draft modus now has a few drawbacks:

• If you have some draft entries in your elog database, you don't see them until you hit "New" the next time. Then the system offers you to continue the open draft entries.
• Once you change an existing entry, you cannot go back to the version of that entry before you started to make modifications. The only option is to keep the current version or delete the whole entry. The old version of your entry in the database is overwritten every few seconds with the current contents of your edit text field.

To fix the first problem, I introduced a new flag "List drafts = 0|1". If this flag is 1, the draft entries are shown in the list view. The default value for this flag is 1, so normally you should see the draft entries in the database. You should refrain from editing these entries if you know that currently somebody else is working on them, otherwise you will overwrite each other's modifications. The modification is in the current git version of elog which is 3.1.2-6ec506b.

The scond drawback is harder to address. In order to go back to previous version, you would need a full version system (ala git), which is far beyond the scope of elog. I'm working on a partial fix by storing the contents on an entry inside the browser when you start editing an entry. You can then "cancel" your modifications by pasting back the original version from your browser. This works of course only if your browser does not crash or you do not navigate away from the elog page, in which case the original version will be lost.

If anybody has a strong opinion about these changes, please post them here.

Stefan

In version 3.1.2-416db9f I implemented a "Restore" button, which should fix the second drawback. If you press it, you should be able to go back to where you started when editing an entry.