That would be a lot of effort for very little gain. I appreciate your detailed response. 

Thank you,
   - Dan

> > Hello,
> > 
> >    Thank you for such a great piece of software!
> > 
> >    When displaying the entries in a log book with Summary view, ELCode is not processed in 'Text'. I know 
> there
> > is an option called 'Allow HTML", but is there something similar for decoding ELCode in the Summary 'Text' 
> field?
> > 
> > Thank you again,
> >    - Dan
> 
> Decoding HTML (or ELCode which translates to HTML) in the summary field is difficult, since the text is 
> truncated. 
> Assume you have some code like
> 
> Text
> <b>Text
>   <i>Text
> ----- cut here
> </i>
> </b>
> 
> Sot he bold <b> and italics <i> tags are opened, but closed after the cutting line. In that case the whole page 
> might render wrongly, because everything after the summary text will be displayed in bold and italics. To fix this I 
> would have to scan the HTML code and close all open tags "by hand". But since there are very many possibilities, 
> especially if one used multi-column tables, this is almost impossible without writing my own HTML parser which is 
> beyond the scope of elog. So the only clean solution I have found so far is to strip off all HTML formatting and 
> just showing plain text there.

The ETH physics department is running an ELOG behind an Apache reverse proxy:

ProxyPass / http://localhost:$port/ retry=0
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:$port/
ProxyAddHeaders off

Authentication is done on the Apache side using LDAP authentication, example:

<Location /demo>
  Use PhysLDAP
  AuthType Basic
  AuthBasicProvider ldap
...
  Require valid-user
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)
  RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1,NS]
  RequestHeader add X-Forwarded-User %{RU}e
</Location>

And all ELOGs use the following config:

[demo]
Authentication = Webserver

For the PSI-Praktikum we had to create a logbook that is accessible without an ETH-Account. A new logbook was added, which is not authenticated via the proxy, but the ELOG internal authentication. In order to grant access to the students, I was made admin for that logbook. The configuration is the following:

[PSI-Praktikum]
Authentication = File
Password file = /home/wwwelog/private/password/psi-praktikum.xml
Admin user = damian

In order to prevent my user from editing the global configuration, top groups according to https://elog.psi.ch/elog/config.html#groups were introduced, with one top group for all the proxy-authenticated logbooks, and a separate one for the Praktikum logbook. However, even after doing this, I am still able to edit the [global] section. Is there a way to prevent this? Or is it not possible to have a global section that is not accessible by the top group admins?

Hi,

I've just installed the news 3.1.5 version and I have 2 problems.
I don't know if it works with older versions because I started with latest.

- When using "select" menu then "edit" for multiple entries, the text is replaced with "- keep original text here -" instead of keeping the original values. Really annoying...

Another problem too, if I want to edit after, I have the error message "only author - keep original text here - can edit" although the author column is OK..
It looks like this problem is global and not only on text column.

- Version number is indicated "ELOG V3.1.4" instead of V3.1.5.

My config file :

I'm using Apache as reverse proxy with SSL and transparent Kerberos authentication (Microsoft Active Directory).
URL via Apache is https://elog.xxxxxx.xxx (no subdirectory).

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your prompt help.
It looks good for text but I still have problem with "select" function (even in English).

If I use "select" menu :
- When multiple values are selected it indicates "only user - keep original values - can edit" (freshly created).




- When a single value is selected, it indicates "only user XXX can edit" where XXX is my truncated name (the first 4 letters).



After editing in with admin account the author is now my truncated name :



If I want to edit a single entry (without select menu) it works perfectly.

Thanks.
 

Thanks !

Sometime I need to edit multiple values to add a new choice.
By exemple, if I add a new column "status" (open, closed...) , it's mandatory to use select menu to add the new value to existent entries.

With a lot of lines it's not possible to edit one by one.

I want to implement the following feature in my logbook:
selecting an Option related to a specific Attribute produces a filter on the Options related to the other Attributes.

-----
Example:
I have the following configuration:
" Attributes = Project, Category
Options Project = Agenda, Software
Options Category = General, Data, Result, Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE,
Reminder, Result, Other
...
Quick filter = Project, Category "

I want that: if on the Quick filter I select "Project = Agenda", then the entry "Category" displays only the Options "Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE, Reminder, Other"; if on the Quick filter I select "Project = Software", then the entry "Category" displays only the Options "General, Data, Result, Other".
See the attached JPGs (they are edited printscreens from my logbook).

------

Is there a way to do this?

Thank you in advance!
Cossutta

Attributes = Project, Category
Options Project = Agenda{1}, Software{2}
{1}Options Category = Meeting, Status, TODO, DONE, Reminder, Other
{2}Options Category = General, Data, Result, Other
Quick Filter = Project, Category 

Thanks a lot for the prompt answer!

Cossutta

Hi Stefan,

I recently installed the latest Elog 2.7.8 revision 2277 after running Elog 2.7.7 revision 2246 for several months without any problems. However once I submit an entry by using the Reply command Elog crashes and Windows XP reports an error message screen. This also stops the elogd service.

I have pinpointed it down to the command "subst on reply Subject = $Subject" by removing my whole configuration file and just added the line "subst on reply Subject = $Subject" to your demo configuration file.

Elog seems to also stops the elogd service with any "subst on reply" command.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you,

Regards

Cliff Shaw