using:
Display mode = threaded
List display = Subject, Type, Author, Date

in the config file (omitting "ID" then) rise the bug

ie, an unneeded "," is displayed after the "supposed to be printed" ID

> > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> 

> > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> 
> Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> replaced?

uhmm...

http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7

the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)

I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
printing-to-the-browser-time ..

> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 

> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> > 
> > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> > replaced?
> 
> uhmm...
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7
> 
> the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
> in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)
> 
> I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
> not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> printing-to-the-browser-time ..

BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to
display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding
routine ...

http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1

> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 

> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> > 
> > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> > replaced?
> 
> uhmm...
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7
> 
> the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
> in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)
> 
> I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
> not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> printing-to-the-browser-time ..

BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to
display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding
routine ...

http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1

> When creating/updating entries in elog, excluding the main text field are 
> there any limits on the size of the other fields?

Yes, this is controlled by the variable NAME_LENGTH in elogd.c, which is
currently set to 1500 characters. You can try to increase this and recompile,
but at some point you will produce a stack overflow and elogd will crash. So
the current length is a compromise.

- Stefan

> using:
> Display mode = threaded
> List display = Subject, Type, Author, Date
> 
> in the config file (omitting "ID" then) rise the bug
> 
> ie, an unneeded "," is displayed after the "supposed to be printed" ID

Fixed in CVS revision 1.574

> > I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&" but it does
> > not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> > following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> > everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> > printing-to-the-browser-time ..

That won't help, since the 'Start page = ...' string is used for redirection (outside
of any HTML). The '&' thing should only occur inside the HMTL text.

I changed elogd.c to encode things properly, but I'm not sure if I covered all
occurences. Can you try release 1.576 if it works correctly?

> > When creating/updating entries in elog, excluding the main text field are 
> > there any limits on the size of the other fields?
> 
> Yes, this is controlled by the variable NAME_LENGTH in elogd.c, which is
> currently set to 1500 characters. You can try to increase this and recompile,
> but at some point you will produce a stack overflow and elogd will crash. So
> the current length is a compromise.
> 
> - Stefan

Thanks. Thats useful to know.

Paul