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If you define a field as "datetime" then you'll get the standard ELOG input field for datetime. It will be stored as seconds of the epoch (seconds since 1.1.1970).

You can define a field as a default string input, then it is stored as a string. But you can convert that string by a shell scripts into seconds of the epoch. See "subst" command in the documentation of the elog syntax:

Subst <attribute> = <string>
When submitting logbook entries, attribute values can be substituted by some text. This text can contain arbitrary fixed text and following values:

$<attribute>: The entered value of the attribute itself
$host: The host name where elogd is running
$remote_host: The host name of the host from with the entry was submitted
$short_name: The login name (if password file is present)
$long_name: The full name from the password file for the current user
$user_email: The email address from the password file for the current user
$logbook: The name of the current logbook
$date: The current date, formatted via "Date format"
$utcdate: The current UTC date (GMT) and time, formatted via "Date format"
$version: The version of the ELOG server in the form x.y.z
$revision: The Subversion reversion of the ELOG server as an integer number
$shell(<command>): <command> gets passed to the operating system shell and the result is taken for substitution.

Following example use this feature to add the remote host name to the author:

Subst Author = $author from $remote_host

Following example substitutes an attribute with the contents of a file:

  Subst Info = $shell(cat /tmp/filename)              (Unix)
  Subst Info = $shell(type c:\tmp\filename)           (Windows)

A special option are automatically generated tags, which are automatically incremented for each new message. This is achieved by putting #'s into the substitution string, which is used as a placeholder for the incrementing index. Each "#" stands for one digit, thus the statement

Subst Number = XYZ-#####

results in automatically created attributes "Number" of the form

XYZ-00001
XYZ-00002
XYZ-00003

and so on. In addition to the #'s one may specify format specifiers which are passed to the strftime function. This allows to create tags wich contain the current year, month and so on. Once the date part of the attribute changes, the index restarts from one. The statement

Subst Number = XYZ-%Y-%b-###

results in automatically created attributes "Number" of the form

XYZ-2005-Oct-001
XYZ-2005-Oct-002
XYZ-2005-Oct-003

and

XYZ-2005-Nov-001
XYZ-2005-Nov-002

on the next month.

Dear experts, I have a logbook which has authentication as follow Authentication = LDAP, File Password file = PASSWD.file LDAP server = ldaps://it-ldap-XXX.XXX.XX:1636 LDAP userbase = ou=people,ou=RGY,o=XXX,c=XX LDAP login attribute = uid LDAP register = 0 Self register = 0 Allow password change = 0 Some of the my user (but not all) have issue in accessing this protected elogbook. The ldap password is correct (we checked). What I see in the log is as follow: 22-Feb-2021 11:25:51 [XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQ] {Beam Run} LOGIN user "USERNAME" (attempt) 22-Feb-2021 11:25:59 [XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQ] {Beam Run} LOGIN user "USERNAME" (attempt) The user USERNAME is present in PASSWD.file. For other user, for which the login works, I do see an (attempt) and then (success) we tried the standard stuff: clear cache/cookies and with different browser. We also tried to remove the user from PASSWD.file and create it again, but nothing has worked. Any suggestion how I can debug this problem? Thanks in advance, Stefano

Usually a restart of the elogd server helps. If the problem persists, one of the logbooks might be corrupt. Try to disable one logbook at a time to figure out which one it is. Then remove that one and set it up freshly. Stefan