Well, this is not so easy. When you leave the browser (via 'Back' or just by closing), it has no way to communicate with the elog server. I could put in some JavaScript, but if people switch off JavaScript there is no way. On the other hand it might be simple to write just a little shell script, which goes through all files on the server and checks if the file name occurs in some elog entry. This can probably be done with some combination of "find" and  "grep", but I'm not a shell script expert.

When adding a log entry containing a datetime field using the IE7 browser a Javascript warning is displayed - see the attachment.  This is due to a change in the naming of the "seconds" field of a datetime entry (made in version 2143) not being propagated to the code that generates the Javascript that checks the supplied values.

Suggested patch follows.

Change "s%d" to "c%d" in lines 9675 and 9678.

Showing lines 9675-9680 below, change from:

               rsprintf("  if (document.form1.s%d.value == \"\") {\n", i);
               sprintf(str, loc("Please enter second for attribute '%s'"), attr_list[i]);
               rsprintf("    alert(\"%s\");\n", str);
               rsprintf("    document.form1.s%d.focus();\n", i);
               rsprintf("    return false;\n");
               rsprintf("  }\n");

to:

               rsprintf("  if (document.form1.c%d.value == \"\") {\n", i);
               sprintf(str, loc("Please enter second for attribute '%s'"), attr_list[i]);
               rsprintf("    alert(\"%s\");\n", str);
               rsprintf("    document.form1.c%d.focus();\n", i);
               rsprintf("    return false;\n");
               rsprintf("  }\n");

Regards,

Richard Stamper

Hi there,

Here's a bit of a special scenario. There's no server-side check the user is logged in upon posting, but it rather seems the server relies on the post data sent from the form.

An example of this can be triggered on a write restricted elog, by hitting on New and logging out in another tab. Then posting, from the first tab, will post as if the user was logged on. Hitting back and posting again also works.

Cheers

Hi,

I am new to eLog, trying to make a logbook tool.  This is probably a question with a simple answer, but here it is...  I need to be able to edit the entry time for an entry as it is being made and also in Edit mode later.  We have field staff who use a paper log in the field and then come back to the computer later and create the log entries, and they need to be time stamped to reflect when an event happened, not when the entry is put into the log.

I'm guessing I'm missing something easy in my Config file, I've looked through the config examples and searched the forum but I couldn't come up with an example of how to make this work.

Thanks in advance!

Jay

Hi Jay,

the entry time cannot be changed, because it should reflect the real time when the entry was made. What you can do in your case is to define a "datetime" attribute, which contains then the time stamp. You need something like this:

Attributes = Author, Field time, Subject

Type Field time = datetime

...