Re: posting messages through email, posted by Devin Bougie on Mon Oct 17 20:15:09 2016
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Just incase anyone's interested, we went ahead and wrote a python script to act as an email gateway for ELOG. If anyone's interested, we'd be happy to share and appreciate any additional improvements.
- You can send a new message to the email address to start a new thread.
- You can reply to messages received from that logbook. If you include the message you are replying to in the body of your message, the reply will be threaded appropriately as a response to the initial message.
- The body of a new message will only include the text/html portion of a MIME message if it's available.
- Attachments work, although we remove spaces and add a random identifier (to avoid collisions) to each filename.
- the Author field is derived using the From address of the email.
- the subject field is derived using the Subject of the email.
- both single and double quotes are preserved in the author, subject, or body of the message
Devin
> Hello,
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> Has anyone implemented an email gateway for ELOG, allowing users to submit entries by sending an email? Granted this should be possible using the elog client binary, but I thought I'd see if I've overlooked any examples
or docs first.
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> Thanks!
> Devin |
text wrapping broken in firefox, posted by Devin Bougie on Thu Dec 19 16:28:06 2019
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When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.
For example, configure a logbook with:
Message Width = 76
Message Height = 20
Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines. The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly. The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.
We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox. Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly. |
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Re: text wrapping broken in firefox, posted by Devin Bougie on Thu Dec 19 16:40:10 2019
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As an example, I created this same entry in the demo logbook using Safari. As you can see there, the message is wrapped at the width that I set the text entry box.
https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Linux+Demo/9
> When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.
>
> For example, configure a logbook with:
> Message Width = 76
> Message Height = 20
>
> Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines. The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly. The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.
>
> We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox. Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly. |
Summary view: View only most recent entry for all values of a given attribute?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Thu May 17 02:12:52 2007
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We are using Elog to track status of hardware assemblies. One attribute we've created is the serial number of an assembly. Other attributes are items like "location" and "status". We have set up these latter attributes with presets to make entry easy and keep entries consistent.
I would like to filter the summary view so it only shows me the most recent entry for every value in the serial number attribute. This would be very useful for quickly viewing the present status and location of every assembly, for example.
I can't find a way to do this in the documentation. Is it possible? If not, may I submit a request for this feature?
I am very impressed with the Elog and it has become an essential part of our record keeping. Thank you for a very useful and well implemented application! |
Re: Summary view: View only most recent entry for all values of a given attribute?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Fri May 18 02:15:41 2007 
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Dennis Seitz wrote: | | I would like to filter the summary view so it only shows me the most recent entry for every value in the serial number attribute. This would be very useful for quickly viewing the present status and location of every assembly, for example. |
I don't know if that is what you want, but have you tried clicking on the column headings in the summary view to sort the table according to that attribute:
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Rather than simply sorting, I would like to actually reduce the number of entries listed to show only the most recent entry for each serial number. In this way, I can see at a glance what the present status of each serial number is. This is similar to Quick Filters but would be a "Most Recent" filter that could be applied conditionally, for example: "Most Recent" -> "By Serial".
Here is the display now:
Here is what I'd like to have the option to view (I used a graphic editor to fake it):
It would also be nice to have the option to then sort the resultant view, for example, to group together all serial numbers that have the same status.
Is this a little clearer? It's just a suggestion - this is not terribly important, but if it were possible I think it would be useful.
Thanks! |
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Re: Summary view: View only most recent entry for all values of a given attribute?, posted by Dennis Seitz on Fri May 18 16:07:31 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: | Ok, now I understand. Well, your request is very special for your case. Usually I implement things only if several independent people ask for it. What you can try is to save your logbook in CSV format, import it into Excel or another spreadsheet program, and achieve the filtering there.
Best regards,
Stefan |
OK, I've done that before and it works fine. I'd rather be able to do it in Elog but I understand if it's not worth the effort. It never hurts to ask!
Cheers,
Dennis |
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Possible to sort attribute chronologically? , posted by Dennis Seitz on Tue Jan 29 04:25:11 2008
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Hi,
We've defined a "LastEdit" attribute for some of our logs so that we can indicate that an entry has been revised, and when that was done.
From our config:
Attributes = Last Edit, etc etc
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Preset Last Edit =$date
Locked Attributes = Last Edit
Subst on edit Last Edit = $date
This works fine, but when we sort the LastEdit column, the dates are sorted alphabetically. Is there a way to tell Elog to treat this particular attribute
as a date when sorting? |
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Re: Possible to sort attribute chronologically? , posted by Dennis Seitz on Thu Feb 7 01:33:03 2008
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> > The only caveat is that
> > when you edit an entry, the "Last Edit" is displayed really in seconds since 1970, but I will
> > fix this in the next release.
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> I just fixed this in SVN revision #2010. If you would have filled out which operating system you use
> with elog, I could tell you how to upgrade.
Thanks for the help and the bug fix. I have a colleague who keeps our installation up to date, so I'll ask him to install it. |
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