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Wed Nov 23 09:25:15 2016 |
 | Christine Quicot | christine.quicot@meteo.fr | Request | All | 3.1.2 | Re: Cancel button missing when editing an entry | Hello,
In my opinion, there should be a "close/return" button (discard changes), even with the drafts enabled, but effectively there will have to be several saves made (at least before/after).
I chose to unable the drafts because of this unwanted behaviour: when I modify an entry without any change and click on another tab/logbook without saving, then choose to close the window, the entry is deleted.
Chris
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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Well, the "undesired effect" you describe is exactly the reason for having drafts. Somebody works on a lengthy message, then the browser dies, or the user by accident hits the "back" button and (by accidnt, ehem...) confirms the dialog popping up which says "changes will be lost". In that case the draft mechanism should take care of that the lengthy message is not lost. That's where it is for. If one does not like it, one can always turn it off. If one now hits "New", there is the option to continue the previous draft message rather than creating a blank message. Originally, draft messages were shown on the list of entries in a different colors, but people got confused by that, since the draft message appears already during the editing of the message by the user writing it. So upon request I removed it from the listing. Actually the system cannot differentiate between "user still has the message open and works on it" and "browser has crashed". So there is no elegant way to make everybody happy. The only option I can think of is to make the listing of draft messages optioinal (with a new flag in the config file). Would that make sense? Or does anybody see another conecpt?
Stefan
| Grant Jeffcote wrote: |
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Andreas,
Doesn't using the Save Drafts = 0 option result in the old 'Back' button returning (replacing the Delete option) meaning you can revert back to your old (unmodified) version without saving, sure it doesn't save a draft but I'd rather be able to return back and lose the changes I didn't want then mess up an old entry, I guess the back button on the browser could also do what you want?
The issue I had was that entries were being deleted accidently by persons other than those that created them, I reduced the edit time to try and mitigate it but ended up going back to what we had in Ver 2.9.2, a 'Back' button.
Grant
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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The problem is that the elog database does not allow for a copy of an entry before you make modifications (and therefore get a "draft"). This is actually very simila to other note taking programs. I use Evernote, which constantly synchronizes between devices, and there I also cannot go back to the version before I started making modification. What one would need is a version system (and Evernote has one), so you can go back to the previous verison, the pre-previous version and so on. But this requires a complete redesign of the elog database.
A quick and dirty solution would be to store the origianal entry inside the browser (using JavaScript). You could then restore the initial version with a "cancel" button. But this mechanism relies then on the browser. If you just leave the page, there is no way the browser can put back the old version.
Stefan
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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If I edit an old entry, and do some mistake while editing, then there is currently no way to savely discard the changes.
The problem is that the entry will become a draft: if I close the window without saving, then the whole entry is gone: it will be converted into a draft entry. But the draft does contain my changes, it is not the originally saved entry!
The draft mechanism should keep a copy of the entry before I opened it in edit mode, and allow to go back to that copy. The edit form has currently the buttons "Submit", "Save", "Preview" and "Delete"; it should have in addition the button "Cancel", that just closes the edit window without saving the entry and even deleting the draft that was saved while the entry was modified. This should bring you back to the previous list view.
Is anyone out there in favour of this change?
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Thu Dec 8 15:39:13 2016 |
 | Christine Quicot | c.quicot@free.fr | Bug report | Linux | 3.1.2 | Datepicker not showing | Hello users,
When I configure an attribute with "Type <attribute>= date", in the new entry form a clic on the calendar symbol does nothing.
Reading the source code I see it's trying to open a window named "cal.html" through javascript (function opencal) but this file doesn't exist anywhere in source elog files.
Thanks
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Tue Jan 10 09:59:30 2017 |
| Christine Quicot | c.quicot@free.fr | Question | Linux | 3.1.2 | Limit number of characters for "login user" parameter string ? | Hello all,
I use ELOG for about 30 users, and I've listed their email adresses in the "login user" parameter, using the LDAP authentication.
As I had problems with the users from the end of the list (they couldn't log in the logbooks) I guessed that there is a max length for the string "login user" (or other parameter?). it seems to be a 1000 character limit.
How can I parameter this limit to another value? Is this value used for other parameters?
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Tue Jan 31 17:49:16 2017 |
| Christine Quicot | c.quicot@free.fr | Info | Linux | commit a6e5962 | Empty mxml directory in commit a6e5962 | Hello,
I wonder if it's normal that in the sources files, new created mxml directory is empty.
In commit # a6e5962 4 files are deleted but not moved:
- src/mxml.c
- src/mxml.h
- src/strlcpy.c
- src/strlcpy.h
Thank you
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Tue Feb 7 18:45:08 2017 |
 | Christine Quicot | c.quicot@free.fr | Question | Linux | commit a6e5962 | Is it possible change content of the notifying mail content (attachements...) ? | Hello all,
I would like to configure the email that is sent to notify users, when an entry is submitted:
- Is it possible to attach to the mail the files attached to the entry ?
- Is it possible to configure a string (with entry keywords) that will appear in the mail content instead of the default content ?
Thank you!
Christine
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Wed Feb 8 09:34:39 2017 |
| Christine Quicot | c.quicot@free.fr | Question | Linux | commit a6e5962 | Re: Is it possible change content of the notifying mail content (attachements...) ? | Hello,
I'm sorry but that's a part of the manual I've read many times, and I'm not interested in changing the subject of the email, but only body and attachements.
I guess that if I didn't find these answers in the manual, it's because the answer for both questions is no ?
Thank you
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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Please look in the manual under "Email Format" and "Use Email Subject".
| Christine Quicot wrote: |
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Hello all,
I would like to configure the email that is sent to notify users, when an entry is submitted:
- Is it possible to attach to the mail the files attached to the entry ?
- Is it possible to configure a string (with entry keywords) that will appear in the mail content instead of the default content ?
Thank you!
Christine
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Wed Sep 21 18:58:18 2016 |
| Christina winson | cswinson@bnl.gov | Question | Linux | 3.1.1 | How do I use Preset Text only when a given topic is selected? | Hi,
I'm looking to use a template for only a subset of logbook entries. Is there some way to apply a template when a specific topic or category is selected?
Help for the newbie much appreciated.
Christina |
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Thu Sep 22 14:45:17 2016 |
| Christina Swinson | cswinson@bnl.gov | Question | Linux | 3.1.1 | Re: How do I use Preset Text only when a given topic is selected? | Awesome! Thanks Andeas.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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Hi Christina,
You want to use "conditional attributes". See elog:68350 for an example. Cheers, Andreas
| Christina winson wrote: |
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Hi,
I'm looking to use a template for only a subset of logbook entries. Is there some way to apply a template when a specific topic or category is selected?
Help for the newbie much appreciated.
Christina
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