Thanks for your rapid response Stefan!  This is affecting two accounts, "admin" and "prescon". I can delete/create a new prescon but the admin accout concerns me that deleting it may lock me out of admin functions.  What I originally wanted to do was send an email when a new entry or updates were saved. I put five email addresses in the email field rather than in the Configuration file.  I've attached a screen shot, with notes, (you may have to scroll down to see it all) of what I am seeing.

Can you tell me how to stop elogd? I've edited that file several times however when I open ELOG in my browser the elogd is back like it was before the edits.

Thanks again for your help Stefan!     - Terry

 I read how to use the email all feature in the syntax page after I messed up. I haven't done anything with the password so I don't know why I get a a password message but it happened when I put 5 email addresses in. Anyway if I have to wipe out ELOG and start over to have admin capabilities again, do all of my logbooks have to be rewritten? Can I import existing logbooks into a new ELOG? This ELOG is critical to our operation and I would rather not have to wipe it all out if at all possible.

Thanks Stephan!    - Terry

 Fantastic! That worked great. Thanks so much for the help guys!!

Terry

I've created an elog where users can then enter links to a file: for example they would enter:

<a href="file:///M:/Data/Inspection%20Reports/ABC123.doc">ABC123</a>

If they are running this on their desktops where everyones M drive is mapped to the same location, not a problem, the file opens perfectly.

The problem we have is some people work off of site and hence they run everything from a memory stick (USB drive), then once back in the office, copy the memory stick back on to the network.

Unfortunately when off of site the href link M: is no longer valid as the M drive doesn't exist.

Hence i've been trying to open a local file with the following syntax: 

<a href="file:///../ABC123.doc">ABC123</a>

It just won't open

Hence in my frustration i basically copied the word file ABC123.doc into every single directory on the memory stick thinking surely this must work, it must find it somewhere, unfortunately not.

What am i doing wrong?

Hi Stefan

Unfortunately this would become impractical for us as many of the test data files which we'd need to link too are Gb's in size, some over 100Gb, hence only the files needed to do a say an inspection of the equipment would be copied onto memory sticks. Currently we use an excel speadsheet to store hyperlinks to all of the files / directories we need - unfortunately some people forget to update this and it was asked could we do it using elog as people are familiar with this wonderful peice of software.

Hence why i'm now investigating - so is it actually posible?

Kind regards

Terry 

Hi Stefan,

Obviously it's not magic but my inability to explain. I've attached a quick jpg of the file structure we use. So for every project we just repeat the file structure. It then becomes a browser based interface for our engineers, inspectors, project managers etc. so via the network they can access the data anywhere onsite.

Elog is used in an iframe on the manrec page. Here we record several logs (a record of everything we do, a record of test equipment, tools used, harnesses, connectors made and disconnected, etc. and what i'm now trying to achieve a document record / check list).

Now in the data directory we store hundreds of documents from procedures, circuit diagrams, mechanical drawings, parts lists, test reports and data, inspection reports, down to consumables like what type of cloth and liquid was used to wipe down a cable.

So the bulk of documents can fit on to an 8G memory stick, the only section that doesn't fit is the test data.  So when we need to move off site, or supply this data to a subcontractor we copy the contents (minus the test data) on to a memory stick, when the memory stick is returned we simply synchronise it back to the network. So the only links that would fail to work off site are links to test data - which we are not worried about.

Now, any new person working on the project needs to review the check list (hopefully the new elog if i can get it to work) part of this check list  / document record could say something like - carry out inspection, refer to drawing <href link> now this is where the problem occurs, as when the files are on the site based machine, we know the file structure is on the M:Drive; however when the memory stick is now plugged into a subcontractors machine / laptop we have no control of the drive allocation, so how can i get the link to the drawing to work?

When they finish the job required, they upload the data to the memory stick and state where.  ie inspection carried out - results passed see report "xyz" <href link>

I hope this now makes more sense

Kind regards

Terry

Hello!

First I would like to thank you for making such a good free software available:). Then right back into the busness. I have a question to developers. I used the following Options to get the logbook entry  which defines the licences expiration date (See the attachement). Now I would like to ask on how to configure eLog to send an e-mail notification when this date is reached?

Attributes = Licence Expiration date
Type Licence Expiration date = date
Date format = %A, %B %d, %Y

The ideal solution would be to have configurable variable which would automatically send a notification X days before the expiration date is reached. Do you think this would be possible feature request to this Forum into eLog wishlist?

BR,

Tero Suominen

 Hi! Thanks for the quick response. Do you have any suggestions on which calendar applications I should start looking for for this purpose?

Thanks,

Tero