Currently have multiple logbooks hosted with elogd. One book is having an issue with Categories. The user regulary uses the category filtering to see one subject for the whole month. This past week it hasn't been working properly. When choosing a drop down category to filter there are not logs found. I've notice the fields under the categories change randomly. Sometimes it would add a % sign where there should be --. Some other fields go from displaying -- Subject -- to just the dashes, thats when the filtered eLogs do not show. Clearing out the erroneous characters can eventually load the specified logs. Has anyone else seen this? Should I just upgrade the system and hope for the best?

PS. while writing this I was able to mitigate the issue by removing the troubled fields from the quick filter section. I'm pretty sure this will not be an issue for my end user but any input is appreciated.

Dear all,

I am trying to get elog used in our company but I need some help.
I have two small questions:

-1- how can I restrict the access 
of a certain user such that he can only see certain logbooks. 
But also not showing the other logbooks on the selection page.
So we could have a tree like this:

Stage one
|
|->Stage 2
       |
       |
      / \
     |   |
    Co1 Co2
    /     \
  job     job

So when Co1 logs in the should not be able to see Co2 and the attached job

-2- How can I have a login page instead of the logbook selection page.
When I insert the password statement the config, I get a blank page.

> > -1- how can I restrict the access 
> > of a certain user such that he can only see certain logbooks. 
> 
> This can be achieved with the "Login user = ..." option.

That is what I found in the mean time. And it works like a charm.

> 
> > But also not showing the other logbooks on the selection page.
> 
> You could try to use "top groups". This gives you "separate" groups of logbooks, so you could make a public tree
> seen by everybody and private trees only seen by a few people. Please read the documentation for details.

I'm now using this (I had to redesign our tree for that)

> > -2- How can I have a login page instead of the logbook selection page.
> > When I insert the password statement the config, I get a blank page.
> 
> You get a login page instead of the selection page if the "Password file = " statement is in the [global] section
> and "Protect selection page = 1". You might have to delete all cookies in your browser if you move the password
> file statement between the [global] and the logbook sections, because otherwise the old cookies might prevent you
> from logging out.

This is not working for me, in Mozilla Firefox I'm still getting a blank page, where IE is giving me an error
stating
that the page is unavailable

> > > You get a login page instead of the selection page if the "Password file = " statement is in the [global]
> section
> > > and "Protect selection page = 1". You might have to delete all cookies in your browser if you move the password
> > > file statement between the [global] and the logbook sections, because otherwise the old cookies might
> prevent you
> > > from logging out.
> > 
> > This is not working for me, in Mozilla Firefox I'm still getting a blank page, where IE is giving me an error
> > stating that the page is unavailable
> 
> If I use following config file:
> 
> 
> [global]
> port = 8080
> password file = passwd
> protect selection page = 1
> 
> [demo1]
> Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
> 
> [demo2]
> Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
> 
> 
> then I don't get a blank page. An unavailable page you should only get whan you use top groups, and want to
> access the root. 
I use the folowing file and do get this error (the company names and other sensitive information has been changed to
something simular but not so sensitive)

[global]
logbook tabs = 1
port = 80
Logbook dir = /srv/elog/logbooks/
URL = http://my.domain/

Protect selection page = 1
Password file = /srv/elog/passwords/main.passwd
Self register = 0
Admin user = Gerald


Group World = Procedures, Work
Group Work = Company, Company2
Group Company = twiddle
Group twiddle = Panels, Bond

[Procedures]
Theme = default
Comment = General Procedures for use with
Attributes = Author, Category, Subject
Options Category = Maintenance, Alignment
Required Attributes = Author, Category
Subdir = Some/dir

[Company2]
Theme = default
Comment = Company2 project Page
Attributes = Author, Category, Subject
Options Category = Scheduling, During Progress, During measuring, After
Required Attributes = Author
Subdir = some/dir

[Panels]
Theme = default
Attributes = Author, Category, Subject
Options Category = Scheduling, During Progress, During measuring, After
Required Attributes = Author
Subdir = Some/dir
Expand default = 2
Protect selection page = 1

[bond]
Theme = default
Attributes = Author, Category, Subject
Options Category = Scheduling, During Progress, During measuring, After
Required Attributes = Author
Subdir = some/dir

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: hostname
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060608 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.4
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: urem=0


Remote host "hostname" matches "ALL" in "Hosts deny". Access denied.
Remote host "hostname" matches "hostname" in "Hosts allow". Access granted.
Internal error, no valid header!