I'll try increasing the list size(s), and will also prepare a simplified config file for you to look at.  Maybe there is a another way to implement what I am trying to achieve?  

In general terms I am trying to give an e-log a "memory" of what has been recorded previously in order to constrain what is permissible to record next.  I do this by starting a log with an initial entry, then alter the config so that users can add records only by duplicating the last record.  The log records the current state of some variables, and allows users to record changes to the state of any of these variables. Conditions are used to constrain the permitted state changes, depending on the current state; conditions are also used, with subst options, to update the current state variables when changes are made.

Specifically, we have "Mate-Demate" logs for connectors to record when connectors are mated and demated.  Previously we just had an attribute for each connector in an assembly with options "Mate", "Demate" and "-" to indicate that either a mate or demate was carried out or that the connector was not touched on this occasion (although others were).  My cunning plan was to ensure that a "Demate" (or no-op) was possible only if the connector is currently mated, and conversely that a "Mate" (or no-op) was possible only if the connector is currently demated.  For each connector (e.g. ConnectorA), there are now two attributes

• "ConnectorA state", to record the current state, and
• "ConnectorA" to record any change.

A new record can be created only by duplicating the last record, thus copying the current state of the connectors, and for each connector the relevant config file entries are like this:

Show Attributes = ConnectorA
Show Attributes Edit = ConnectorA state, ConnectorA
Locked Attributes = ConnectorA state
Preset on duplicate ConnectorA = -
Options ConnectorA state = Mate{1}, Demate{2}
{2} Options ConnectorA = -, Mate{3}
{1} Options ConnectorA = -, Demate{3}
{3} Subst ConnectorA state = $ConnectorA

 Hi All, 

 maybe I missed something in the configuration, but how do I get this nice editor for HTML like the one available on this forum?

Thanks a lot for advice.

 Hi Andreas, thank you for your reply. I have already found out that the problem on Mac was that I moved the cfg file to some other folder which did not contain the resources and scripts. I used the "-s" switch and now it works nicely. However, now I try to do the same thing on Windows and even the "-s" switch does not help (the default encodings etc. are set in the cfg file). I compiled the elog on Mac, but I used the installation package on Windows.

Hi there,

It seems that by default in a message created as "reply" of another message, the "quoted text" of the original entry is put at the _TOP_ of the new entry and not movable (Firefox 17, elog 2.92). I would strongly like to have it opposite, i.e. that one is able to create a new text first and only then has the "quoted text" since people are interested to see a new information and only then the previous messages as sort of "reminder". It was like this in older (2.6?) version but now I did not find how to change this default behavior. Did I miss something?

Cheers

Valentin

I use plain encoding, cannot answer for the others but it should do the trick as it's in the documentation.  I'm using Firefox some large number and 2.9.2.-2475

I do what I believe you want, and get it by having the following line in my config file for that logbook (which is part of elog.cfg):

 Prepend on reply = \n

This gives a blank line at the "top" of the entries when you start a reply, and all the previous entries gain another "> " unless you've also altered that default behaviou (as in fact I have).  The result then looks like:

Latest line of text

> Previous entry

> > Previous entry to that

If you use HTML encoding, you can do that with

Prepend on reply = <br />

to achieve the same thing (as I did just here in this reply).

Stefan