Hej,

I discovered a problem uploading images taken with the cameras of mobile devices to new elog entries directly from said devices. When selecting the image and choosing "Upload", either the blue page loading indicator gets stuck at around 10% (mobile Safari, iOS 8.3, iPhone 4 and iPad mini) or the error message "failed secure connection; connection reset while page was being loaded" ("Fehler: gesicherte Verbindung fehlgeschlagen. Verbindung zum Server wurde zurueckgesetzt waehrend die Seite geladen wurde") appears shortly after (Android 5.02, Firefox 37.0.2, Motorola G).

From the desktop browser (Firefox 38.0.5, OSX 10.10) there is no problem uploading images at all.

So far, this problem is very reproducible, but only when using ELOG with SSL enabled. Without SSL, the problem disappears on all platforms.

The ELOG daemon runs under Linux (Fedora 18) and I have also tried using the latest development version of ELOG.

Running ELOG with debug messages the only output after the page has been loaded is:

TCP connection #0 on socket 4 closed
TCP connection #0 on socket 4 closed

After these, there is no further output and the mobile devices do not indicate any progress either even after many mi.

The minimal config file I have been using is:

[global]
; network
port = 443
SSL = 1
URL = https://my.server.somewhere/
; paths
Logbook dir = /usr/local/elog/logbooks
Resource dir = /usr/local/elog
Logfile = /tmp/elog.log

[demo]
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Required Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Status, Modification, Problem Report, Problem Details, Problem Fixed, Other
Options Category = Facility, Experiment, IT, Other
List Page Title = $logbook - $subject

As mentioned before, removing the first three lines fixes the problem (the URL line points to my actual server of course).

I would appreciate any pointers on how to debug this further! The functionality of posting images directly from mobile devices is quite important for the planed deployment of ELOG and I would very much prefer to have SSL enabled when doing so.

Thanks and cheers,

Hanno

That's strange. Might have to do with the SSL library elog uses. I just tried this forum (actually the "Demo"), and it worked fine through SSL, but I use an Apache proxy server for elog implementing the SSL protocol, which might be slightly different.

On the subject of uploads, is there a way to restrict the viewing size of an uploaded photo or picture in the config? So it doesn't appear over more than one page.

Neal

Use thumbnails (need ImageMagick to be installed for that), and you can show for example 300x300 pixel thumbnails of all pictures.

Hej Stefan,

thanks for the suggestion -- through a Apache proxy the upload does indeed work without problems.

Cheers,

Hanno

Hello.

When I use "Revisions" name for attribute I have correct entry like "DATE by XXX from SOME_IP" which is added to previous edition date. 

But when i rename Revisions attribute to polish language (like "Wersje"), the entry is preceded by 3c6435es and whole looks like "3c6435es DATE by XXX from SOME_IP" and it overwrite previous entry. 

Is "Revisions" attribute must be in english?

Regards Daniel. 

Edit:

I know what I was doing wrong. I use:

Subst on Edit Wersje = $Revisions<br>$date przez $long_name z $remote_host

but it should be: 

Subst on Edit Wersje = $Wersje<br>$date przez $long_name z $remote_host

Hej,

I just noted that when having an unknown (or presumably misspelled) user name in the "Admin user" line in the
config file, that the other users are no longer treated as admins and do not see the corresponding link to the
admin page e.g. on the list page. In my specific situation, I in fact have only one user registered (new
password file) but two users still on the admin list (old config file). The one user is only treated as admin
after removing the offending name from the list of admins.

I understand that this might be the intended behavior -- but I wonder if this could lead to a situation where
one locks oneself out, e.g. when adding a misspelled user name to the list.


Thanks and cheers,

Hanno

Is there a way to limit access to an attribute "Reviewed by" to only supervisors?

Thank you for your help

Mike

No.

Is there a way to limit access to an attribute "Reviewed by" to only supervisors?

Thank you for your help

Mike

Hi all :)

I try to setup my first lobgook, and have some problem. 

I want that Author was preset by $long_name, and it can't change its name. That works correct. I also want, when other user click Reply, that he will be author of reply, but Author windows goes emtpy... No Author, or Reply User in that field. Is it correct?

Do you have any suggestions? 

Here is part of config I use:

; preset author and email
Preset Author = $long_name
Preset Author Email = $user_email

; these attributes cannot be changed
Locked Attributes = Author

; options for reply
Subst on reply subject = Re: $Configuration Name
Remove on reply = Author, Author Email
Preset on reply Author = $long_name

Regards

Daniel.

You have "Remove on reply" together with "Preset on reply Author". Since the first is executed later, you first preset the author name, then remove it again. Just discard the "Remove on reply" and you are fine.

Ok. Now it works :) Thank you :) I'm translating Elog into Polish. When I finish, can I send it to you?

Regards Daniel. 

Drag and drop for attachments dosn't work on either Chrome 37.0.2062.94 (64-bit) or FIrefox 31.5.3 (both on Linux). D&D works on the midas.psi.ch demo page.

On my logbooks, the "drop attachements here" area does not have a dashed line border.

I don't see anything in the elogd.conf file that pertains to this feature.

Andreas,

I am running the latest version of the elogd source RPM that I could find - ELOG V3.1.0-2411f95 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago), with kernel level 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64. I can try grabbing the latest source code from Git and try building that. There are a couple other fixes I'd like to apply anyway. Thanks!

Sure, I just wanted to get feedback from you regarding the draft functionality. As it looks now people are happy, so I will do a 3.1.1.

I have multiple elogs running on a server.  Is it possible to set one elog to a different timezone?  For example, I run an elog for a group in Washington state, and another elog for a collaboration group in Germany.  I would like to set each elog to their respective timezone. 

thanks,

Gary

The elog server grabs the local timezone from the underlying OS. Under Linux, you can change the timezone using the TZ environment variable. See here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-set-time-zone-per-user-basis/

If you need different time zones on the same server, you have to create two accounts and run two instances of elogd on these accounts.

Thanks Stefan,  It looks like the group had actually contacted you directly as well (sorry for the redundant work!).  Thanks for the help, the great application and your time.

Still no luck changing the TZ for a single elog service.  I completed the following:

* I added a new user/group - central-tz-user (id 1010)
* changed user TZ to central, su as user and confirmed CDT via 'date'
* changed elogd.cfg usr and grp to central-tz-user
* changed elog directory recursively to central-tz-user ownership
* restarted the elog instance and confirmed via 'ps aux' that 1010 is running elog process
* When I go to elog and add new entry, server time (PDT) is shown. 

Am I missing a step here possibly?

Okay, I missed the obvious...

sudo -u central-tz-user (start elog)