Good day,

I have an attribute that is 25 chars. it can be empty until someone edit it to fill the information.
The default view for that logbook is List. 

Is it possible to display that attribute in list view but not the entire 25 chars ?
What I mean is that if the field is empty, show it as empty but if it has some information, show something like "X" in List view.

I tried playing with Styles and Cell Styles but I couldn't figure it out...
Cell Style seams to require specific values "" to apply the style properties. I can't figure how to apply cell style "if field is not empty" :)

Thanks for your help :)

> Good day,
> 
> I have an attribute that is 25 chars. it can be empty until someone edit it to fill the information.
> The default view for that logbook is List. 
> 
> Is it possible to display that attribute in list view but not the entire 25 chars ?
> What I mean is that if the field is empty, show it as empty but if it has some information, show something like "X" in List view.
> 
> I tried playing with Styles and Cell Styles but I couldn't figure it out...
> Cell Style seams to require specific values "" to apply the style properties. I can't figure how to apply cell style "if field is not empty" :)
> 
> Thanks for your help :)

Unfortunately something like this is not implemented in elog.

Stefan

> Good day,
> 
> I have an attribute that is 25 chars. it can be empty until someone edit it to fill the information.
> The default view for that logbook is List. 
> 
> Is it possible to display that attribute in list view but not the entire 25 chars ?
> What I mean is that if the field is empty, show it as empty but if it has some information, show something like "X" in List view.
> 
> I tried playing with Styles and Cell Styles but I couldn't figure it out...
> Cell Style seams to require specific values "" to apply the style properties. I can't figure how to apply cell style "if field is not empty" :)
> 
> Thanks for your help :)

If your server would run on Linux, then the configuration below would just do what you've asked for:

Attributes = X
List change X = $shell(if [ -z "$X" ] ;then echo "";else echo "X";fi)

But since shell scripting is operating system dependent, you'll need to figure out yourself how to do it in Windows.

Cheers
Andreas

I seem to be having some trouble with Find when using conditional attributes.

when I change the primary attribute in the find field, the corrispnding secondary attribute dosn't refresh properly with the list of values.

I am able to use the conditional options as expected when creating a new logbook.

I am using version ELOG V3.1.1-0767eb0 running on debian wheezey (compiled from sid sources)

This may be due to how I have my config file setup

Example:

Attributes = A, B
Options B = Please Select A
Options A = One{1}, Two{2}
{1} Options B = 1, 2,
{2} Options B = 3, 4,
 

Uppon closer inspection, removing the option to preset the secondary attribute as a Option list dosn't do anything for the find page.

This:

Attributes = A, B
Options A = One{1}, Two{2}
{1} Options B = 1, 2
{2} Options B = 3, 4

Still fails to set attribute B to a option list on  the find page. 

Dear experts,
   I have an elog with an attribute with fixed values, like this:

Attributes = Half
Options Half = +x, -x, both

It works fine, but I would like to find (or quick filter) all entries with Half=+x .

If I go to the search form, I can select +x from the dropdown menu for Half, but the search returns no result, even if I do have a number of entries with Half=+x. Likewise if I try to do the same with Quick filter.

I believe that this is due to the fact that the search uses regex, and "+" is reserved. I've tried to perform a search by entering manually and escaped "\+x", and it works as intended.

https://.../?mode=summary&reverse=0&reverse=1&npp=20&Half=%5E%5C%2Bx%24

However, since this attribute has a list of fixed values, it is not possible to entry manually something different "\+x" than what is defined in the config, that is "+x".

Is there a solution for this problem?

I would rather not change the attributes options (to, say, positive/negative), since that would mean changing manually a non negligible number of entries.

thanks,
  Stefano

Hi Stefano,
you could try to html encode the "+" and "-" sign in the option list
Options Half = +x, -x, both
Allow HTML = 1

But of course then you would need to change all existing entries.

It is just an idea; I did not try this out, it might not work anyway.

Cheers
Andreas

> Dear experts,
>    I have an elog with an attribute with fixed values, like this:
> 
> Attributes = Half
> Options Half = +x, -x, both
> 
> It works fine, but I would like to find (or quick filter) all entries with Half=+x .
> 
> If I go to the search form, I can select +x from the dropdown menu for Half, but the search returns no result, even if I do have a number of entries with Half=+x. Likewise if I try to do the same with Quick filter.
> 
> I believe that this is due to the fact that the search uses regex, and "+" is reserved. I've tried to perform a search by entering manually and escaped "\+x", and it works as intended.
> 
> https://.../?mode=summary&reverse=0&reverse=1&npp=20&Half=%5E%5C%2Bx%24
> 
> However, since this attribute has a list of fixed values, it is not possible to entry manually something different "\+x" than what is defined in the config, that is "+x".
> 
> Is there a solution for this problem?
> 
> I would rather not change the attributes options (to, say, positive/negative), since that would mean changing manually a non negligible number of entries.
> 
> thanks,
>   Stefano