I have some problems of understanding how the "Format <attribute>" parameter
is working. It may be, that there was a similar question in the forum, but I
didn't find it. I'm sorry if I come back with an old question.

I would like to have 2two attributes in the same line. As ex. PersonName,
PersonCity.

If I understand the handbook correctly, it should be posslible with "Format
<attribute> = 1". However, I'm not able to use the "Format <attribute>"
correctly because I do not understand how to use it correctly in the cfg file.

Is there a possibilty of an example by Stafan or does anybody else already
use this feature successfuly and is able to post a example here?

Thank's a lot!

Is there a way to disable editing of the textarea, but still allow editing 
of other fields in the entry? (e.g. Fixed Attributes Edit = Text)
Also, is the data entered in that field accessible through a variable like 
$author? I tried $text, but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks,
-Todd

By the way... Nice work on this. It has a lot of good features.

HI 
I have setup top group in my elog . I will want to restrict the different 
admin user on the global and the global on top groups .
But however i am not able to use the configuration on "admin user" on the 
global portion to strict admin of top group to access the main global 
config .
Did i configure it wrongly or is there a way?

And for email notification , is there a way which i can select who to email 
it to ? like check box etc.

And is there a way which i can setup the summary page to refresh every 
15mins , so that new entry can be shown ?

And can i make the message id unique , when i move the messages from one 
log book to another log book , the messages id change accorddingly based on 
the number or messages . Anyway for me to make it fixed even i moved to 
another log book , i need the running number still .

Sorry for the many questions
Thanks for your help

Hello to all,

I'm trying to get ELOG to run several separate logbooks which will
eventually have their own password/user files and other little things.
The problem I have is I want to have a main selection type page so when a
user enters ELOG they see this page with links on it to main logbook groups.

So, for my example I'd have a main page INDEX1.HTML which has links to:
  /Server_Logbooks
  /Other_Logbooks

but I want those top groups to just show standard ELOG generated logbook
list once you select a link on index1.html page.
Unfortunately "Selection page = index1.html" if defined in [global] just
gets used everywhere, so once I click on a link to go to
http://elog.blah.internal/Server_Logbooks it just shows the same index1.html
selection page. So I never get to the actual logbook list...
I could make separate selection pages for each top logbook group,
but that means that I have to alter those HTML files every time I add or
remove a logbook. I'd ruther have ELOG generate those pages on the fly.

Is there any way to do this?
Could I tell ELOG not to use a selection page at all for a particular group
of logbooks, and just show the logbook list.

Thank you very much.

GL.

//ELOG on FreeBSD 5.2//

> I have some problems of understanding how the "Format <attribute>" parameter
> is working. It may be, that there was a similar question in the forum, but I
> didn't find it. I'm sorry if I come back with an old question.
> 
> I would like to have 2two attributes in the same line. As ex. PersonName,
> PersonCity.
> 
> If I understand the handbook correctly, it should be posslible with "Format
> <attribute> = 1". However, I'm not able to use the "Format <attribute>"
> correctly because I do not understand how to use it correctly in the cfg file.
> 
> Is there a possibilty of an example by Stafan or does anybody else already
> use this feature successfuly and is able to post a example here?

This forum uses that feature. As you can see, if you display a single entry, the
author, subject etc. are on a single line. This is achieved with

Format Author = 1
Format Author email = 1
Format Category = 1
Format OS = 1
Format ELOG Version = 1

Note that in the entry form, each attribute is on a separate line no matter what
the format specifiers are. The single line option only works for the display page.

> Is there a way to disable editing of the textarea, but still allow editing 
> of other fields in the entry? (e.g. Fixed Attributes Edit = Text)

I could add that option, but I don't know if it helps you (see below).

> Also, is the data entered in that field accessible through a variable like 
> $author? I tried $text, but that doesn't seem to work.

No, that won't work. Attributes are limite to some 500 characters, while the
text body is limited to 250000 characters. If you add $text to an attribute, it
would overflow or you would have to truncate the text, which I guess is not
good in both cases.

If you still want "Fixed attributes edit = text", please explain me you exact
case and I will consider implementing it.

> The problem I have is I want to have a main selection type page so when a
> user enters ELOG they see this page with links on it to main logbook groups.

I added a new flag

Show top groups = 1

which shows the list of to groups. Hope this is what you want. The new version
is available from CVS (see download page).

Great! That takes care of the problem for sure.

Cheers once again for such a quick response.

GL.


//we use ELog very extensively internally, it's great, especially now with
replication//


> > The problem I have is I want to have a main selection type page so when a
> > user enters ELOG they see this page with links on it to main logbook groups.
> 
> I added a new flag
> 
> Show top groups = 1
> 
> which shows the list of to groups. Hope this is what you want. The new version
> is available from CVS (see download page).