After submitting a new post, if the page is left completely alone,, it will after a few minutes prompt that the page needs to resend information.

This is the same prompt you'd get if you attempt to refresh a page that had session variables passsed to it. Example is attached.

Is there something in my config that could cause this?   This is a fresh install of the latest verison however my elogd.cfg file has been migrated throuh many installs over many versions, so it's very possible this is something following along.

thanks.

Start with the demo example configuration, add one line after the other from your config, and figure out which is the offending statement in your config, then post a minimal configuration here which triggers the problem.

Hi All,

I got into trouble setting up the automated email notification.

elog.cfg:

;Send automatic email notifications
SMTP host = mail.ihep.ac.cn
;SMTP host = 127.0.0.1

;Some SMTP server require username/passowrd authentication
;elogd -t <your password> for creating SMTP password
SMTP username = wux@ihep.ac.cn

SMTP Password = .JYEytMGvsHANeCIfQJXmscIt4NOtzJ8GbAnh3XH280
;SMTP Password = V3gxMzYxODAxMjAxNA==
;No Email notification
Suppress Email to users = 1

elogd -v:

GET /LEBT/?cmd=Forgot&login_name=wux HTTP/1.1
timezone: -28800, offset: 28800

Email from <wux@ihep.ac.cn> to wux@ihep.ac.cn, SMTP host mail.ihep.ac.cn:
220 ihep.ac.cn Anti-spam GT for Coremail System (ihep[20151015])
EHLO 10.1.44.220
250-mail
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-coremail 1Uxr2xKj7kG0xkI17xGrUDI0s8FY2U3Uj8Cz28x1UUUUU7Ic2I0Y2Url11UVUCa0xDrUUUUj
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN
username:
wux@ihep.ac.cnPassword:
.JYEytMGvsHANeCIfQJXmscIt4NOtzJ8GbAnh3XH280
535 Error: authentication failed

test with telnet:

[wux@logbook ~/elog]$ telnet mail.ihep.ac.cn 25
Trying 202.38.128.6...
Connected to mail.ihep.ac.cn.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ihep.ac.cn Anti-spam GT for Coremail System (ihep[20151015])
EHLO 10.1.44.220
250-mail
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-coremail 1Uxr2xKj7kG0xkI17xGrUDI0s8FY2U3Uj8Cz28x1UUUUU7Ic2I0Y2Ur3T0__UCa0xDrUUUUj
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN
334 dXNlcm5hbWU6
AUTH PLAIN
535 Error: authentication failed
Connection closed by foreign host.

Any advice and suggestions will be appreciate.

Hi ELOG Community,

Please help me to configure my smtp server in Windows using gmail server

This is what in my config:

SMTP host = smtp.gmail.com

SMTP username = raymund.dawang@engagis.com (company email subscribing in gmail)
SMTP Password = xxxxxxx
 

And I was prompted by this error in ELOG: Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. ir5sm11631778pbc.13 - gsmtp

Apprecite you help. Thanks.

I suspect that this might be a Debian packaging issue; however no one replied to my help request on the Debian forums so I try posting the question also here. I insatlled Elog on my Debian Jessie machine, I can open it with a browser but when entering a new post just a simple plain text editing box is shown instead of the WYSIWYG editor, and no drag and drop area for attachments is shown. When I start the elog service with "systemctl start elog" I get this suspect message in the journal: "FCKedit NOT detected". Indeed, I see that the elog installation creates a symlink which I guess is supposed to point to the fckeditor installation, which nevertheless is missing:

root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll fckeditor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 25  2014 fckeditor -> ../../fckeditor
root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll ../../fckeditor
ls: cannot access ../../fckeditor: No such file or directory

Is this a Deban misconfiguration or a bug in Elog? thanks

Hi Andreas, I opted for the first solution since the Debian package, although outdated and broken, has some goodies like a systemd unit for managing the daemon which is very handy. I downloaded FCKeditor 2.6.11 from SourceForge (after a long search, seems that CKeditor made its parent almost disappear from the web), unpacked it in the proper folder and not the WYSIWYG editor works. I have just a couple of minor issues: there is no attachment drop area (I had it in my old Debian 6 server) and the editor toolbar has an ugly "Windows 95" look; see the attached image. I can live with these problems but if the can be easily fixed then obviously I would do that, can you give me any hint? Thank you very much.

Elog 3.x comes with CKeditor, not FCKeditor any more! I would actually recommend to use the CKeditor from the current Elog 3.1.1 source package if running together with Elog 3.1.1.

Hi Andreas, understood. I found a 3.1.0 package for Debian unstable but it won't install on Jessie since it depends on a newer version of openssl, and it seems to not have a systemd unit (not sure about that, though). I can live with my old version now that the WYSIWYG editor works, and in the meantime I'll keep my eyes open for a brave soul who would eventually package a newer elog version for Jessie.

Thanks again for the support.

Hello,

When using restrict edit time together with autosave, there is the following problem: The counter for restrict edit time seems to start after the autosave. If the time is up, it is no longer possible to submit the report.
It is also not possble to edit old drafts if restrict edit has elapsed since the creation of the save.
Autosave is definitively a nice new feature. However, I think it would be better if the counter for restrict edit time only started after the "submit" of the report and allowed edits to drafts no matter how old they are. As it is one needs to either set a really high value for restrict edit time or turn off autosave.
The issue seems to be related to: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/68103

Regards

Kester

Hi there

Okay so let me explain what im trying to do. I have a table in a logbook (lets call it home) that the user fills
out. This information in the table is related to other logbooks (8 of them to be exact).
I want to propogate information from the table in the home logbook into the other logbooks. To do this I used
Execute new which runs my scripts. One of the scripts makes a call to the elog
client to submit the message. The problem is that this call to elog client never finishes because its hanging
waiting for the initial submit (one which triggered Execute new) to finish. The documentation
explained that only one submit can be processed at a time so i expected whats happening at the moment.

My question is are there any other ways to do what im trying to do?? In a nutshell how to propogate information
from one logbook to another autonomously.

Regards
Kenzo

> Hi there
> 
> Okay so let me explain what im trying to do. I have a table in a logbook (lets call it home) that the user fills
> out. This information in the table is related to other logbooks (8 of them to be exact).
> I want to propogate information from the table in the home logbook into the other logbooks. To do this I used
> Execute new which runs my scripts. One of the scripts makes a call to the elog
> client to submit the message. The problem is that this call to elog client never finishes because its hanging
> waiting for the initial submit (one which triggered Execute new) to finish. The documentation
> explained that only one submit can be processed at a time so i expected whats happening at the moment.
> 
> My question is are there any other ways to do what im trying to do?? In a nutshell how to propogate information
> from one logbook to another autonomously.
> 
> Regards
> Kenzo

Hi Kenzo,
I think it would help me to understand your problem, if you would provide a minimal configuration file with two
logbooks.

There is no ELOG internal feature to propagate data from one logbook to another; 
using a shell script is the only method I know.
But you could easily put your script into the background: 
ELOG can handle multiple parallel request, by handling one request after the other.

Kind Regards, Andreas

 
> Hi Kenzo,
> I think it would help me to understand your problem, if you would provide a minimal configuration file with two
> logbooks.
> 
> There is no ELOG internal feature to propagate data from one logbook to another; 
> using a shell script is the only method I know.
> But you could easily put your script into the background: 
> ELOG can handle multiple parallel request, by handling one request after the other.
> 
> Kind Regards, Andreas

Hi Andreas

Im using python to do the scripting. Everything works fine until it comes to submitting the entry to my logbook.
The extractTable.py file is the one running the command to submit to elog.
I see now that im starting a subprocess in my python script (subprocess.call) and thats why its not finishing.
Could you perhaps suggest how I would go about doing this by putting my scripts in the
background? I might have to look at multiprocessing in python as well. The reason im using python is because im
doing alot of file processing as well. I do have to add that this method works perfectly when i just run the python
on its own. As soon as i run it by submiting an elog entrie from the browser it hangs on the subprocess.call method.

Regards, Kenzo

>  
> > Hi Kenzo,
> > I think it would help me to understand your problem, if you would provide a minimal configuration file with two
> > logbooks.
> > 
> > There is no ELOG internal feature to propagate data from one logbook to another; 
> > using a shell script is the only method I know.
> > But you could easily put your script into the background: 
> > ELOG can handle multiple parallel request, by handling one request after the other.
> > 
> > Kind Regards, Andreas
> 
> Hi Andreas
> 
> Im using python to do the scripting. Everything works fine until it comes to submitting the entry to my logbook.
> The extractTable.py file is the one running the command to submit to elog.
> I see now that im starting a subprocess in my python script (subprocess.call) and thats why its not finishing.
> Could you perhaps suggest how I would go about doing this by putting my scripts in the
> background? I might have to look at multiprocessing in python as well. The reason im using python is because im
> doing alot of file processing as well. I do have to add that this method works perfectly when i just run the python
> on its own. As soon as i run it by submiting an elog entrie from the browser it hangs on the subprocess.call method.
> 
> Regards, Kenzo

Hi Andreas

I sorted my problem out, I had to use threading in python such that I can time the submissions to the elog server.
Everything works fine now. Thank you for the assistance.

Regards
Kenzo

Hi

Im just curious is it possible to run more then one command using Execute new = <command> or will i have to run a script to run muliple commands.

I tried using '&&' to seperate more then one command but it seems that the first one only gets executed and the rest are just ignored.

Regards

Kenzo

The reason why im asking if it can be done using the Execute option is because I need to have the message id of the entry that was submitted and in an external script i dont have access to the variable

The command is passed to your shell, and some shells except more than one command. Most Linux shells accept commands separated by ';', which you can try yourself by entering for example: ls *.c; ls*.h

If i put the ';' into Execute the rest of the command becomes a comment thats why i was trying to use '&&' instead. If I encapulate the whole command in "" or '' then both commands are executed but the files im trying to write to gets created but no data is piped into it. When I use Execute with one command and pipe its output to a file everything works fine though.

Preset Author = $shell(if [ $short_name = "Anonym" ] ;then echo $Author;else echo \"$long_name, $Author\";fi)
It adds $long_name to the Author field for non-anonymous entries.

Cheers Andreas

Hi Andreas

This worked perfectly thank you.

Dear all,

Is it possible to have a dynamic "preset text" option without remplace text if it has changed?

I would like to switch the template file depending on the attribute value (Type). 

If user already started editing the text body, on change (Type) he could lose this data. 

I'm using this example code :
Attributes = Type, Subject
Options Type = One{1}, Two{2}, Three{3}
Show text = 0

{1} Preset text = text1
{2} Preset text = text2
{3} Preset text = text3
{1,2,3} Show text = 1

I the attribute type change the user lost the data, because the text has been replaced.

Any idea about how to solve it?

Thanks!
Cheers

I don't think that this is possible.

And it is not clear to me, how you would like it to work: I often use HTML tables in preset text, where the user should fill out columns (e.g. for checklists). I wouldn't want the tables just to append when switching to another checklist. You could rather add a comment to the Type field, explaining that the text field will be overwritten when you change the type.

The Firefox addon Lazarus does store whatever you've typed in an HTML form: at least you could then recover what you've typed.

Cheers, Andreas

thanks Andres for your response!

I was thinking that it cannot be possible, but , I had to try to ask in the forum.

for my question, I think that this could be left on user responsibility to take care about it, and add a comment the the text fied, explaining that will be erased the html text on change the text field.

Thanks four your time.