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.

Please advise on how to set up selective email notification on logbooks; We want to send an email to specific people when an event that involves them is entered? 

At the moment, we currently get an email entry for every new logbook entry. Thanks

Thanks Andreas, I will read that section. Julian

See drawing below: We have a beam on and a beam off time. We want to fill in the lost time automaticaaly. Please can you help? Julian

Unfortunately elog cannot do calculations based on certain fields. You could however add some Javascript code (via "Bottom text = ..." for example), which does that. But that requires JavaScript knowledge to do so.

Stefan, I am not an expert in this field so I wondered how one goes about finding someone to write this and how one amends the soruce code? Is that allowed?  Is it a feature than may be of use for other users? Julian

Good Afternoon

Im trying to automatically post an entry using information saved in a text file. I have followed the example in the users guide but i always seem to get a error message saying transmission failed. Lets say for instance I have a user named John and his password is Blue and he wants to log into a logbook called home from a textfile the command im using to log a message from the file is

elog -h localhost -p 8080 -u John Blue -l home -a Author=John -m textfile

I cant seem to figure out why i keep getting this error message. I even tried deleting the password file because i thought it might be an authentication issue.

Can anybody assist me please it would be much appreciated.

Regards

Run the elog command with an additional -v flag (verbose output), and you will see what the elogd server return. It's HTML, but you should be able to see some error message.

Hi Stephan

The error message I get is "Error: Command Submit not allowed". I dont know if this might be an issue but it says Response Recieved: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in the first line of the servers response

This indicates that the username/password is not correct. Can you log in to that logbook in your browser with the username "John" and password "Blue"?

Yes I can it works perfectly from the browser.

Hi Stephan I got it to work for some reason elog was complaining that my encoding of the message wasnt allowed. I allowed the lognook to allow ELcode and it works perfectly.

Thank you for the help.

Good Day

I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.

Regard
Kenzo Abrahams

> Good Day
> 
> I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
> a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
> or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regard
> Kenzo Abrahams

So-called "custom" entry/view forms are a bit for experienced people. You should be fluent with HTML and JavaScript. The (minimal) documentation is here: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66909

If you want a table style input form, better use Google Spreadsheets.

Stefan

> > Good Day
> > 
> > I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
> > a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
> > or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Regard
> > Kenzo Abrahams
> 
> So-called "custom" entry/view forms are a bit for experienced people. You should be fluent with HTML and JavaScript. The (minimal) documentation is here: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66909
> 
> If you want a table style input form, better use Google Spreadsheets.
> 
> Stefan

Thank you Stephan this really helped me.