I implemented experimentally RSS feeds into Elog. Before releasing this new
addition, I would like to collect some experience with it. This forum now
supports RSS feeds, for which you can subscribe with a RSS feed reader like
Mozilla Firefox. Please give it a try and send me any feedback.

For an introduction to RSS feeds, please see 

http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

To subscribe to a logbook, enter following URL into your RSS reader:

http://<your-elog-host.domain>/<logbook>/elog.rdf

From the newest Mozilla Firefox browser, you can also click on the RSS box at
the lower right corner of the browser (see attachment).

Great, but what's the corresponding URL for the RSS feed itself

> I implemented experimentally RSS feeds into Elog. Before releasing this new
> addition, I would like to collect some experience with it. This forum now
> supports RSS feeds, for which you can subscribe with a RSS feed reader like
> Mozilla Firefox. Please give it a try and send me any feedback.
> 
> For an introduction to RSS feeds, please see 
> 
> http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

IE 6 chokes on the XML, below is what I get for 
http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/elog.rdf
(sorry this is in french).
So I assume all rss reader parsing the file with the MS XML parser shall also 
have a problem, this is the case with Avant Browser integrated RSS reader.

Cheer,
Marc

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La page XML ne peut pas être affichée 
Impossible d'afficher l'entrée XML en utilisant la feuille de style XSL. 
Corrigez l'erreur, puis cliquez sur le bouton Actualiser ou réessayez 
ultérieurement. 


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Un caractère incorrect a été trouvé dans un contenu de texte. Erreur de 
traitement de la ressource http://midas.psi.ch/elog...

<title>Re: $message id  gives wrong value - Gernman traslalation of Back, posted 
by Ulrich Tr

The problems came from the French accents and the German umlauts. I changed the XML
charset, so this should be fine now. New version is under CVS.

Hi Stefan,

The parsing now seems OK, IE downloads the XML and the RSS reader of Avant 
Browser 
accepts the feed. 
I still have a problem however : below the header, only the first 3 items 
are displayed and it seems only partially.
I included the HTML result so you can "visualize" what's going on (this may 
also be on the avant browser side !).

Cheers,
Marc


> The problems came from the French accents and the German umlauts. I 
changed the XML
> charset, so this should be fine now. New version is under CVS.

> I included the HTML result so you can "visualize" what's going on (this may 
> also be on the avant browser side !).

I believe it is on the avant browser side. Below is the same shown in the
SharpReader browser, where everything is displayed correctly.

> i am trying to implement ssl features on our logbooks. however, it seems
> that stunnel has drastically changed their program and the usual startup
> procedures listed on the elog page don't work.
> so, what is the new method for getting elog set up with stunnel?

stunnel is kind of a deprecated feature. Better use the SSL proxy of Apache,
as written in the elog admin guide. If someone else figures out how to use the
more revent stunnel, I'm willing to update the documentation.

> > I was able to find the export feature under find. Could you let me know where 
> > the import feature is? Or how I turn it on.
> 
> Oops, I frogot to document this, thank you for reminding me. You have to add the
> "CSV Import" command manually to the list of menu commands, like:
> 
> Find menu commands = New, Find, Select, Config, CSV Import, Help
> 
> I was wondering if I should make this as the default, but many people maybe do not
> have the demand of having CSV Import, so it might be annoying for them. What do
> you think?

I needed the export feature and could not find documentation on it in the latest 
version. I finally read the code and added Find Menu Text = <filename>
where filename had the tags XML, CSV1, and CSV2
This always exports all records. Shouldn't it just export the records appearing in 
the window?
Also, there is a CSV Import menu item, why isn't there CSV Export? Or just Export 
with radio buttons controlling the format.
(BTW, the XML export is not valid. Internet Explorer complains about the first line)

Great Software. Love it. Keep up the good work!