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Fri Feb 27 20:52:42 2009

Re: Attachment problems

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Apologies if these are known bugs, I'm very busy at the moment but I wanted to post this before I forget:

I'm using Safari on a Mac to make Elog entries.

1) The preview of some pdf attachments in edit mode displays huge areas of white space around each page. I can send examples if you'd like - please email me directly, for some reason I never get email notifications from this forum (and they aren't being tagged as spam, so I don't know where they go).

2) When that happens, the text entry area for ELcode format expands horizontally to match the huge pdf file width. Text without line feeds then doesn't wrap until the huge window width is filled, so I have to scroll horizontally all the time while editing to see what I've written.

3) So I turned off attachment previewing as a workaround (Preview attachments = 0 ). That worked fine by not expanding the entry area, but I noticed some odd behavior. The list of attachments below the text entry area is badly formatted. Here's a screen shot:

I tried to reproduce this with a new entry but the text was formatted properly for that entry.

P.S. While editing this entry, I see that the text area width is again being set by the width of the picture I've attached - try it yourself; if you try to resize your browser window smaller while editing, the text will only wrap until the width of the attachment is reached - the text no longer wraps at smaller widths than the attachment.

Your problem 1) is probably caused by ImageMagick. I use that package to convert PDFs to images. If this package estimates the paper size from the PDF incorrectly, you're screwed. You can go and actually locate the thumbnail pictures in the ELOG directory (should be named xxxxxx_yyyyyy_<name>-0.png). If you check these pictures, they are probably already huge.

Problem 3) indeed is a small bug in elogd, which I fixed in revision #2178. If you can download the SVN version and recompile elogd, you should be fine:

Thanks for the bug fix, we'll get our installation updated ASAP. And I will look into why some of my pdf file image sizes are interpreted incorrectly by ImageMagick, it might having something to do with how I've generated them.

Is it possible to set the default image size to always scale to fit the browser window? For example, this entry has a png attachment, but it still suffers from the fact that the text window size is set by the width of the png image.

If I'm forgetting something, sorry, I'm writing in a hurry!

Dennis

66320

Wed Apr 15 17:57:19 2009

Config so that users can delete only their own entries?

I've tried

Deny_Delete = All
Allow Delete = $author

and just
Allow Delete = $author

But either users can delete anyone's entries, or they can't delete any entries.

Am I missing something? If not, can you add the capability to allow users to delete, but only their own entries?

Thanks as usual for a great piece of code!

66323

Sat Apr 18 00:33:53 2009

Re: Config so that users can delete only their own entries?

Thanks for reminding me of that, it will do fine. A suggestion: Separate Restrict Edit into Restrict Edit and Restrict Delete or some functional equivalent. Then we have the choice to restrict one or the other or both. Is that worth doing?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

You cannot put $author into any Allow or Deny option, only explicit login names (not "full" names). What you want however is

Restrict Edit = 1

which lets only the original author either delete or edit entries. If you use that option, you probably want as well

Preset Author = $long_name
Preset on reply Author = $long_name
Preset on duplicate Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author

So a user cannot pretend to be somebody else. You also need a valid "admin user = ..." statement. Note that the admin user always can delete/edit entries. If no admin user is defined, everybody has automatically admin rights, so Restrict Edit has no effect.

66494

Wed Aug 5 19:05:01 2009

alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

We track quite a few detector assemblies, which are produced with non-sequential designations. It would be useful if the Quick Filter list was automatically sorted alphabetically to make it more convenient for folks to find a particular item.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

66502

Fri Aug 7 23:09:42 2009

Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

I have not implemented automatic sorting since some people want a different order, like some main topics at top. So by following the order from the configuration file, everybody can be satisfied just by chaning the order in the config file.

- Stefan

Yes, I have been manually sorting and resorting. We have extendable attributes and the list keeps growing so I have to resort every so often. I thought perhaps a simple alphanumeric sort as an option would be popular with most users so I thought I'd ask for it. It would really simplify things for me. Users who want to sort manually could do so by disabling the option. It never hurts to ask!

66515

Tue Aug 11 17:46:33 2009

Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter

Yes, many thanks, Stefan, from me, too! It's really great that you respond so quickly to requests and suggestions.

And thanks to David for the fine tuning, great suggestion.

Dennis

> Thanks Stefan!  Works great.
> 
> > Ok, that makes sense, so I changed it to
> > 
> > Sort Attribute Options Status = 1
> > 
> > as you suggested.
> > 
> > > (For some reason I could not add this in Dennis's thread.)
> > > 
> > > I like this new feature, BUT
> > > 
> > > I happen to have two Options:   Options System, and Options Status.
> > > 
> > > System are a very few items, whereas Status has a long list, which, like Dennis's example, can be added to. 
> > > Keeping the latter in alpha order is great, but it's a shame that the cost is that Options System are also
> > > sorted alphabetically, whereas it has a natural order which it would be preferable to keep - for example (and
> > > this is made up)
> > > 
> > > Options System: 3.1, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
> > > 
> > > where the natural order here is chronological.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps the configuration file option could be more specific, for example
> > > 
> > > Sort attribute Options Status = 1
> > > 
> > > which would then NOT sort Options System.  If both are needed to be sorted, both should be specified, or back to
> > > the original syntax which defaults to sort *all* Options.

66835

Thu Jun 3 06:14:50 2010

Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

- Stefan

Ok, I implemented

Sort attribute options = 1

in the current SVN revision.

I've tried adding this statement to my cfg file but the attributes are still unsorted in the QuickFilter menus. Was this implemented in 2.7.7?

Shouldn't an existing configuration file entry like

Options Type = C, D, A, B

be sorted in the QuickFilter menu as A B C D?

66864

Wed Jul 28 17:01:06 2010

Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

- Stefan

Ok, I implemented

Sort attribute options = 1

in the current SVN revision.

I've tried adding this statement to my cfg file but the attributes are still unsorted in the QuickFilter menus. Was this implemented in 2.7.7?

Shouldn't an existing configuration file entry like

Options Type = C, D, A, B

be sorted in the QuickFilter menu as A B C D?

You need revision 2252 or later. So you have to upgrade to 2.7.8.

We have upgraded to 2.7.8 but this still doesn't seem to work. The quick menus are still unsorted. Does it work for you?

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