Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jul 11 13:13:27 2005
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| Emiliano Gabrielli wrote: | Still a problem .. sorry:
Options Category = Info,Report,Problem{1},Other
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
{1}ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
{1}Display Level = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$level.png">$level
when I try to use this featur on a conditional attr it is ignored .. If I remove the {1} it is obviously showed .. but also when no $level is defined (taht is infact not what should be)...
BTW, is it possible to not show conditional attributes in mail and in "single entry" view? .. it's quite strange to ave a "Level" of a "Misure", not a "Problem" 
thank you in advance  |
Well, that's not the way condition attributes are supposed to work. They were designed to modify the new entry input mask, to have diefferent option lists depending on the value of an attribute. But conditional attributes do not have any meaning for normal display and for email notification. This would have to be implemented and is quite some work. So I would put following in your config:
Options Category = Info{1},Report{1},Problem{2},Other{1}
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
{1}ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
{1}Display Level = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$level.png">$level
{2}Preset Level = N/A
Having N/A is not as nice as having this attribute not shown at all, but that's the only choice one has right now  .
Another thing: you maybe realized that putting <img> in the subject of your orignal entry results in a missing image. That's a nasty side effect of your wish to have any <img> interpreted as HTML. Of course you could argue that <img> is not a real HTML statement because the source is missing, but then another one will come and put there a subject like: "I want an <img src="bla.gif"> in my config" and bang, we are back to the same problem. So if anyone has a clever idea of how to solve this, please let me know. Maybe one should be able to put a "\" in front of any code (also the ELCode tags) to not interprete them by the system. But while this is maybe obvious for a C programmer or shell programmer, the normal user might not find this so obvious. |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Emiliano Gabrielli on Mon Jul 11 14:30:11 2005
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Emiliano Gabrielli wrote: | Still a problem .. sorry:
Options Category = Info,Report,Problem{1},Other
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
{1}ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
{1}Display Level = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$level.png">$level
when I try to use this featur on a conditional attr it is ignored .. If I remove the {1} it is obviously showed .. but also when no $level is defined (taht is infact not what should be)...
BTW, is it possible to not show conditional attributes in mail and in "single entry" view? .. it's quite strange to ave a "Level" of a "Misure", not a "Problem"
thank you in advance |
Well, that's not the way condition attributes are supposed to work. They were designed to modify the new entry input mask, to have diefferent option lists depending on the value of an attribute. But conditional attributes do not have any meaning for normal display and for email notification. This would have to be implemented and is quite some work. So I would put following in your config:
Options Category = Info{1},Report{1},Problem{2},Other{1}
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
{1}ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
{1}Display Level = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$level.png">$level
{2}Preset Level = N/A
Having N/A is not as nice as having this attribute not shown at all, but that's the only choice one has right now .
Another thing: you maybe realized that putting <img> in the subject of your orignal entry results in a missing image. That's a nasty side effect of your wish to have any <img> interpreted as HTML. Of course you could argue that <img> is not a real HTML statement because the source is missing, but then another one will come and put there a subject like: "I want an <img src="bla.gif"> in my config" and bang, we are back to the same problem. So if anyone has a clever idea of how to solve this, please let me know. Maybe one should be able to put a "\" in front of any code (also the ELCode tags) to not interprete them by the system. But while this is maybe obvious for a C programmer or shell programmer, the normal user might not find this so obvious. |
IMHO the solution may be in allowing html code only in the cfg, not in the value of the field..
i.e., elog has to first allow html in the cfg attribute and then replace every $attribute with their values... this values as to be translated in html entities in order to solve the problem
in other wordsthe value of the attribute as to httl_encoded when displayed.. and the cfg line not
or I am loosing some point ? |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Emiliano Gabrielli on Fri Jul 15 17:28:33 2005
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the very usefull thing my request will enable is the following:
Options Category = Info,Report,[B]Problem[I]{1}[/I][/B],Other
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
[B]{1}[/B]ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
[B]{1}Display[/B] Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/[B]$level[/B].png">[B]$category[/B]
note that this way I could use a single field to have the both the category name and the level icon .. this is specially usefull for a "problem" or "bug" category, becouse this way one can see status of the "bug"..
.. I'd really like conditional Display |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sat Jul 16 12:30:33 2005
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| Emiliano Gabrielli wrote: | IMHO the solution may be in allowing html code only in the cfg, not in the value of the field..
i.e., elog has to first allow html in the cfg attribute and then replace every $attribute with their values... this values as to be translated in html entities in order to solve the problem
in other wordsthe value of the attribute as to httl_encoded when displayed.. and the cfg line not
or I am loosing some point ? |
I don't like that solution. Sometimes I want to write some HTML tag myself into an attribute (like "<b>") and have this interpreted, meaning having the following word in bold, and sometimes I want to talk about HTML tags, like to tell you to use <b> for bold, and have it not interpreted. The same with the ELCode tags.
So I added an escape character. If you write <b> or [b], then it gets interpreted. If you write \<b> or \[b] with the "\" in front of the tag, it does not get interpreted, thus the '\' works like an escape character. I edited your old entry with the <img> in the subject, and as you see it is now not interpreted.
The modification is in CVS and documented in the ELCode help. |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Emiliano Gabrielli on Mon Jul 18 10:09:06 2005
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: | I added an escape character. If you write <b> or [b], then it gets interpreted. If you write \<b> or \[b] with the "\" in front of the tag, it does not get interpreted, thus the '\' works like an escape character. I edited your old entry with the <img> in the subject, and as you see it is now not interpreted.
The modification is in CVS and documented in the ELCode help. |
Ok, it's a good solution for me ... as using a <pre> html tag does not seem to preserve an <img> tag .. |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jul 20 23:30:45 2005
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| Emiliano Gabrielli wrote: | the very usefull thing my request will enable is the following:
Options Category = Info,Report,Problem{1},Other
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
{1}ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
{1}Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$level.png">$category
note that this way I could use a single field to have the both the category name and the level icon .. this is specially usefull for a "problem" or "bug" category, becouse this way one can see status of the "bug"..
.. I'd really like conditional Display |
You asked for ELCode tags not to be interpreted inside any [code] tag, but now the above entry gets screwed since you used it there! So no formatting any more in [code] section  |
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Re: < img > in Display Attribute, posted by Emiliano Gabrielli on Thu Jul 21 09:31:35 2005
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Emiliano Gabrielli wrote: | the very usefull thing my request will enable is the following:
Options Category = Info,Report,[B]Problem[I]{1}[/I][/B],Other
Preset Category = Info
Display Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/$category.png">$category
[B]{1}[/B]ROptions Level = Notice,Warning,Alert,Fixed
{1}Preset Level = Warning
[B]{1}Display[/B] Category = <img style="border:0; float:left; margin-right:5px" src="icons/[B]$level[/B].png">[B]$category[/B]
note that this way I could use a single field to have the both the category name and the level icon .. this is specially usefull for a "problem" or "bug" category, becouse this way one can see status of the "bug"..
.. I'd really like conditional Display |
You asked for ELCode tags not to be interpreted inside any [code] tag, but now the above entry gets screwed since you used it there! So no formatting any more in [code] section |
LOL |
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Re: 80 column Message width., posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jan 21 15:08:19 2008
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| Carl Shirey wrote: |
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First thing we have been using the Elog for 2 yr for a shift carryover and it has works out great.
Now for the problem I have. I heave the message width set to 80. It works for plain Encoding but it does not work for HTML or ELCode. The text does not wrap around when viewing using Explorer or Fire Fox or printing out the Elog. Is this a problem or do I need to modify the Config file?
Thanks
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A limited message width does not make sense for HTML or ELCode encoding since the text is laid out by the browser dynamically when displaying messages. For example have a look at this very message in your browser, and resize your window. You will see that the text flows dynamically, so the line breaks move with the window size. Furthermore the text entry uses a variable width font, so a fixed line length would not result in line breaks at the same vertical position. Therefore the message entry size scales automatically with the browser window. If you need lines with fixed length, you can only do that in plain encoding. |
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