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.

Hi Stefan,

Good day. I'm thinking if this wishlist is already available in elog. The values in columns we're added or computed according to formula set in a single separate column.

Thanks,

Raymund

No, formulas are not yet implemented. For such things I would use Google Spreadsheets in meantime.

Stefan

I have "Show attachments = 0" set in [global], but attachments are shown in the "Full" view. Is this the intended behavior? Looking at individual entries correctly hides the attachments. 

We use inline images often, so when an attachement is shown at the bottom of a post it is effectively a duplicate, which clutters things up a bit. 

That's strange. If you use HTML or ELCode encoding, attachments are automatically hidden if they are used inline. So no "Show attachments = 0" necessary! I just tried that with the demo logbook and here is how it looks:

As you can see, there is no attachment shown in the full view. This is actually handled by the function "is_inline_attachment()" in elogd.c. I don't know if you can do debugging, but somehow this inline test won't work for you and the question is why. Can you try the simple configuration from the demo logbook and see if you still have the problem? Can you show me an example when this does not work. I need to reproduce your problem exactly in order to fix it.

Stefan

The automatic hiding behavior is what I'm after, and I've discovered that it is only a problem for PDF attachments. I have reproduced this on the demo logbook on git revision f828049. 

I've taken a look at the source you mentioned, but as far as I can tell, it is just looking for the opening of the img tag in the HTML source, and I'm not sure why that is different for a PDF.

Hm, looking through the source, there are many many places where PDF files are treated differently than strictly image filetypes (PNG, etc.). This makes sense in the context of multi-page documents. 

Still, I like using PDFs for vector plots... I suppose I should also confess to the following modification I've made to my ELOG for treating PDFs like images in drag-and-drop uploading. 

--- a/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/dndfiles/plugin.js
+++ b/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/dndfiles/plugin.js
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ CKEDITOR.plugins.add( 'dndfiles', {
                                                                return;

                                                        if(src.indexOf(".png") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".jpg") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".jpeg") >= 0
-                           || src.indexOf(".gif") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".svg") >= 0) { // This is an image
+                           || src.indexOf(".gif") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".svg") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".pdf") >= 0) { // This is an image
                                                                html += '<a href = ' + src + '><img src = "' + thumb + '">' + '</a>';
                                                        } else {        // this is not an image
                                                                // Server appends 14 characters in front of the name so we should remove them

Hi,

We have a user who posted a lot of inline jpg.  The elog system converted those to png and thus cause the size of the elog to expand about ~4x of the original size.  It is caused the problem of entry size too large for email notifications.  Is there a way to turn off the conversion to png picture file?  May I know also know why it converts to png to store on the server?  Thank you very much.

Jacky

You can turn off thumbnail creation with

Thumbnail size = 0

as written in the documentation. The PNG files are "thumbnails" (= smaller versions of large pictures). Mostly people put large images into elog entries, which take long times to download. Having small thumbnails insted speeds up download times considerably.

Stefan

How can I host elog in a web server. I need sample config file on [global] segment to show config on how it can be host. Please need your help. Thanks

I am honestly not sure if I understand the question. You can run ELOG behind an Apache Webserver. Look for example at https://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#secure