HI 
I have setup top group in my elog . I will want to restrict the different 
admin user on the global and the global on top groups .
But however i am not able to use the configuration on "admin user" on the 
global portion to strict admin of top group to access the main global 
config .
Did i configure it wrongly or is there a way?

And for email notification , is there a way which i can select who to email 
it to ? like check box etc.

And is there a way which i can setup the summary page to refresh every 
15mins , so that new entry can be shown ?

And can i make the message id unique , when i move the messages from one 
log book to another log book , the messages id change accorddingly based on 
the number or messages . Anyway for me to make it fixed even i moved to 
another log book , i need the running number still .

Sorry for the many questions
Thanks for your help

The ETH physics department is running an ELOG behind an Apache reverse proxy:

ProxyPass / http://localhost:$port/ retry=0
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:$port/
ProxyAddHeaders off

Authentication is done on the Apache side using LDAP authentication, example:

<Location /demo>
  Use PhysLDAP
  AuthType Basic
  AuthBasicProvider ldap
...
  Require valid-user
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)
  RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1,NS]
  RequestHeader add X-Forwarded-User %{RU}e
</Location>

And all ELOGs use the following config:

[demo]
Authentication = Webserver

For the PSI-Praktikum we had to create a logbook that is accessible without an ETH-Account. A new logbook was added, which is not authenticated via the proxy, but the ELOG internal authentication. In order to grant access to the students, I was made admin for that logbook. The configuration is the following:

[PSI-Praktikum]
Authentication = File
Password file = /home/wwwelog/private/password/psi-praktikum.xml
Admin user = damian

In order to prevent my user from editing the global configuration, top groups according to https://elog.psi.ch/elog/config.html#groups were introduced, with one top group for all the proxy-authenticated logbooks, and a separate one for the Praktikum logbook. However, even after doing this, I am still able to edit the [global] section. Is there a way to prevent this? Or is it not possible to have a global section that is not accessible by the top group admins?

Is there any way to include the text of a log message in the CSV export? 
Anyway to include a pointer to the attachment?

> > Is there any way to include the text of a log message in the CSV export? 
> > Anyway to include a pointer to the attachment?
> 
> The text of a log message is usually several lines long. To my knowledge, CSV
> only allows single line values, that's why I excluded the text field from the
> CSV export. This is different in the XML export, which supports multi-line
> values. If you teach me however how multi-line values can be represented in
> CSV format, I could easily add that.
> 
> As for the attachment, do you just need a name, or a URL back to the logbook?
> Should the pointer be in the form "http://elog.server/logbook/attachment.jpg"
> or in HTML form like <a href="http:/...">attachment</a> ?

I will attempt to use an active x script in a DTS package on SQL Server to parse
the xml and load it into the database. I can see where CSV has it's limitations.

We have about 10 logbooks running on the same Elog that all get fair use. Many people have turned off new entry emails because they were filling up inboxes, but are still interested in what's new. I saw the option to add "?last=1" to the start page, although I'm afraid using it might cause confusion over how to get to the older posts.

I was trying to figure out a way of creating a "digest" of sorts, a list of entry subjects posted in the past day or week, something similar to what's generated by "?last=1?mode=threaded", but for every logbook (similar layout to the selection page with nested logbooks). This could either be a page, or a regular email.

Is there way to generate such a cross-logbook page? What about a scheduled email formatted based on a given filter?

PS: The elog has been invaluable to us, a big thanks to all involved!

 Perfect! I didn't not know there was RSS support. I will probably use something like rss2email, but this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

I don't remember the details, but originally had the same trouble. I think a "/" at the end of a url got me somewhere. 
I have defined...

URL = http://somewhere.edu/elog

...in the config file, and my redirect looks like this:

Redirect /elog http://somewhere.edu/elog/
ProxyPass /elog/ http://somewhere.edu:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /elog/ http://somewhere.edu:8080/

If I have a couple of attachments in a log book entry, I can link to that entry "http://example.edu/elog/Sandbox/7", I get the appropriate log in page, and after logging it, it takes me to the entry.

However, if I link directly an attachment, "http://example.edu/elog/Sandbox/7/1", I receive a plain log in page that doesn't have the stylesheet applied, and logging in, I am directed to " http://example.edu/elog/Sandbox/7/" which throws an invalid error. If I am already logged in the browser, it links correctly. 

I assume the problem must stem from messed up relative URL somewhere, hence the lack of stylesheet, or from the redirect incorrectly handling the /. (Looking at the source for the two login pages, the only difference is "<input type=hidden name=redir value="7">" versus "<input type=hidden name=redir value="7/1">". ) But that reaches the end of my ability...

This breaks the attachment links in emails.

Any help would be much appreciated!