Since there were no responses, I decided to make good use of the fact that the software is thankfully open-sourced. I modified elogd.c and added just a couple of lines to get what I wanted.

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<    if (old_mail && getcfg(lbs->name, "Use Email Subject Edit", subject, sizeof(subject))) {
<       i = build_subst_list(lbs, slist, svalue, attrib, TRUE);
<       sprintf(str, "%d", message_id);
<       add_subst_list(slist, svalue, "message id", str, &i);
<       strsubst_list(subject, sizeof(subject), slist, svalue, i);
<    } else

These lines just follow the comment line: /* compose subject from attributes */

Hi,

I am having trouble with uploading large (>0.5MB) files to elog. We click on upload and in a couple of seconds, the webbrowser complains that the server has dropped the connection.

Following the suggestions I found on these forums (https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66753), I increased the timeout.tv_sec to 30 in three locations in elogd.c, but this did not help.

The problem is present in my old elog installation (from ~2 years ago), as well as the latest git snapshot from bitbucket that I cloned on June 10, 2017.

PS: Upload seems to work for non-secure configuration. It still takes a while to load, but it completes. However we prefer to use secure connections ( SSL = 1 ).
PS: Using nmap I looked at the latency to the relevant port, it can be as high as 0.5sec, but most often it is shorter.

Cheers,
e.

Hi,

Could someone at least suggest how I could debug this problem myself? If I know where to start, perhaps I can fix it myself and contribute to the software.

Best,

e.

Hi, 

I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
I am using a syntax as this:

echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd

and I get a message which says: 
"cannot get host name: Success"

which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 

The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 

What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?

Any hints appreciated. 

Erik

We've upgraded our ELOG installation to v3, and we really like the new CKeditor. However, one of my users has noticed a problem when using Iframe HTML elements with CKeditor; namely that the HTML is not present when trying to edit the post, and saving the post erases the HTML. 
I was able to reproduce this fairly simply, by trying to embed a youtube video. I would create a new post, click the "Source" view in CKeditor, and paste something like the following:
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RzZgFKoIfQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Upon submission, this produces a totally normal .log file in the logbook directory, and the video is viewable on the ELOG page:

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:52:20 -0800
Author: test
Type: General
Category: General
Subject: test
Attachment:
Encoding: HTML
========================================
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RzZgFKoIfQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Then, upon hitting "Edit," I am greeted by a totally empty CKeditor window, and hitting "Source" does not display the original HTML. 
Any help is greatly appreciated!

PS: Including the first line of the logfile in this very post would cause the submitted post to be truncated for some reason, although the preview looked fine. Pasting it here also caused the log to end abruptly. The string is "(dollar sign)(at symbol)MID(at symbol)(dollar sign): 9"

Hi all,

It's possible my question is entirely within the domain of CKeditor, but I figure it may also have something to do with how it's plugged into ELOG. 

In essence, when attaching a PDF to an ELOG post as an image, the post body shows the generated thumbnail and there is a link to the full resolution PDF at the bottom of the post. 

However, if instead, I attach a JPG or PNG, the link to the full resolution image is not present in the post (though it can be accessed through the small paperclip icon).

Is there a way to show links to the thumbnailed images, or even for the thumbnail itself to be a hyperlink to the full resolution source?

Thanks for your time,

Eric Q. 

Sorry, I wasn't sufficiently clear. The issue I mentioned only applied to images that are inlined in the body of the post using the "Image" button in the CKeditor toolbar.

Oddly enough, on this logbook, I am not able to upload an image in that way; after selecting the image and pressing "Send it to the Server," nothing happens.

Since I am unable to attach an image to this logbook, I made a post over the the Linux Demo logbook showing an image that was uploaded with the CKeditor toolbar "Image" button that doesn't link to the full resolution image. 

Incidentially, Dario Milicic's recent commit to the git repository (83a10a5), adds the exact functionality I'm looking for to drag-and-drop attachments with the "dndfiles" CKeditor plugin. I've looked througe the "image2" code myself, but I don't have much experience with javascript, and haven't figure out how to do the equivalent for that plugin. 

Thanks for your time.