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ID Date Icondown Author Author Email Category OS ELOG Version Subject
  65888   Wed May 21 21:06:38 2008 Idea Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll Make Email All = <list> override Suppress Email checkbox

 I would like to be notified by email of some logbook entries regardless of whether the user has chosen to suppress email or not.

This way I will always be aware of new entries, and users will still have the option of notifying a larger group of other users, or not.

As far as I can tell, presently the Suppress Email checkbox overrides Email All.

  65902   Thu Jun 5 02:06:31 2008 Idea Dennis Seitzdenseitz@comcast.netRequest  thumbnails in list and entry views?

It would be very cool to be able to select Full from the view menu and then scroll rapidly through all entries looking for that high res photo of a SQUID chip I took two months ago. Presently the photos are all full size so the Full view is slow to load and it takes a lot of scrolling to navigate. Can you implement thumbnails in Full view, and also in the single entry view? Clicking on the thumbnail should, of course, open the full size image.

For now, I'm just using the wysiwyg html entry format and dropping images into the entry, then right-clicking to set a small image size. Clicking on the image gives me a new window with the full size image, which works great.

I hope you don't mind the barrage of suggestions, and thanks again.

  65961   Thu Sep 4 20:49:59 2008 Idea Alan Stonealstone@fnal.govRequestLinuxV2.7.1-200Search Find Selected or List of Logbooks instead of all Logbooks.

I am using the CMS ELog remotely as a monitoring tool.  Information is compartementalized into dozens of containers.  I can create a find query URL, say last day, which then reloads every X minutes in Firefox.  When new ELog entries are made, then appear in the refresh and catch my attention.  But, my interests are somewhere between a single logbook and all logbooks.  If I choose all CMS logbooks for example for one day, I usually end up with > 200 entries. 

In short, I would like the ability to:

1) Select from the list of available logbooks when doing a search

2) Have more canned choices from smaller time frames, such as 1 hour or at least one shift (8 hours).

I do not see how to do this in the current elogd.cfg syntax instructions.

Thanks, Alan

  66012   Thu Oct 23 10:21:06 2008 Idea Grant Jeffcotegrant@jeffcote.orgQuestionWindows2.7.5Server derived time

Hi Stefan,

Is it possible to derive the time in a 'date/time' attribute from the Elog server?
We would like all our entries in GMT/UTC time and unfortunately as the time is currently derived from the client machines there are often entry descrepancies if the regional settings are not set correctly.

The '$entry time' variable can be used but seems to put a 1970 date in the field so bears no relevancy to an 'Event' time?

I'm also having issues with conditional entries in the Find page. If a conditional statement is used to hide attributes or change displayed attributes in the entry page then the attribute that is used in the conditional statement is not permanently selectable in the 'Find' page. It is available as a choice but as soon as selected the conditional action removes it? Is it possible to make conditional options/actions in the 'Find' page optional?

Hope that makes a little sense?

Many thanks

  66028   Thu Oct 30 09:44:25 2008 Idea T. Ribbrockemgaron+elog@ribbrock.orgQuestionAll2.7.5-2130Re: (How) can I hide columns in List view?

Thanks for the response! BTW: I did get a notification - but thanks for the "personal heads-up"!

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 Indeed you got something wrong. The conditional attributes are meant for the input form, so you can turn some attributes on and off or choose different options for an attribute depending on the value of another attribute.

[...]

 I see. In that case, could you maybe please give a quick explanation what "List conditions" is supposed to do? In conjunction with your statement above I'm now thoroughly confused as to what it should/could be used for...

Stefan Ritt wrote:

[...]

The only way I see how you can achieve what you want is to define two separate logbooks, but serve them from the same directory (via the "Data dir" option). Both logbooks should share the same attribute definition, but use different "List display" options.

 Ah, that's an idea - I'll look into that. Thanks a mil for the suggestion!

Regards,

Thomas

  66034   Wed Nov 5 11:52:12 2008 Idea T. Ribbrockemgaron+elog@ribbrock.orgInfoLinux2.7.5Re: Installation problems
> > 2) /etc/init.d/elogd: line 10: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory (I fixed this by commenting
> > out that line).
> > 
> > 3) Starting elogd: /etc/init.d/elogd: line 34: echo_success: command not found (Fixed by search/replace "echo_"
> > to "echo ").
> 
> The elogd (or elogd.init in the distribution) is written for RedHat based systems where echo_success gives the 
> typical output with a green [OK] at the end of the line. For Debian, there is (was) in principle a Debian package 
> which has it's own startup script. Since the package maintainer is not active any more (I guess), the Debian 
> updates are heavily old. Once elog gets managed inside Debian again, that should get better again, but until then 
> one has to follow 2) and 3) from above. If I would remove it, the Scientific Linux users would complain. 

I'm actually using elog on Debian and have been rolling my own ".deb" for a while now (starting with the old Debian
one and working my way up till 2.7.5). Maybe you could add the Debian /etc/init.d/elog script to the "contrib"
directory, with a suitable note in the README or something like that? That script has not changed in a long time and
is still functional - and doing so would make it easier for people who would like to install elog on a Debian (or
Debian-based, e.g. Ubuntu) system. I'll attach the script.

Regards,

Thomas
Attachment 1: elog
#!/bin/sh
# Init script for ELOG.
# Copyright © 2003, 2005  Recai Oktaş <roktas@omu.edu.tr>
#
# Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
# See the file `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt'.

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/elogd
NAME=elogd
DESC="ELOG daemon"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

# Admin should be able to lock some options.
if [ -f /etc/default/elog ]; then
	. /etc/default/elog
fi

# To be in the safe side, the followings should be always defined.
PIDFILE=${PIDFILE:-/var/run/$NAME.pid}
CONFFILE=${CONFFILE:-/etc/elog.conf}

# Add the options to argument list only if defined previously.  Since
# some options may also be present in the conffile, we couldn't preset
# those options which would otherwise overwrite the settings in the
# conffile.  Also note that, all have reasonable compiled-in defaults.
ARGS="${PIDFILE+"-f $PIDFILE"}         \
      ${CONFFILE+"-c $CONFFILE"}       \
      ${LOGBOOKDIR+"-d $LOGBOOKDIR"}   \
      ${RESOURCEDIR+"-s $RESOURCEDIR"} \
      ${PORT+"-p $PORT"}               \
      ${HOST+"-n $HOST"}               \
      ${VERBOSE+"-v"}"
      
# Always run as a daemon.
ARGS=`echo $ARGS -D`

case "$1" in
	start)
		echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
			--exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS 2>&1
		sleep 1
		if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && ps h `cat "$PIDFILE"` >/dev/null; then
			echo "$NAME."
		else
			echo "$NAME failed to start; check syslog for diagnostics."
			exit 1
		fi
		;;
	stop)
		echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
		start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
			--exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS 2>&1
		echo "."
		;;
	reload)
		# Do nothing since ELOG daemon responds to 
		# the changes in conffile directly.
		;;
	restart|force-reload)
		$0 stop
		sleep 1
		$0 start
		if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
			exit 1
		fi
		;;
	*)
		N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
		echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
		exit 1
		;;
esac

exit 0

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  66044   Thu Nov 13 13:25:25 2008 Idea Steve WilliamsonStephenWilliamson@Barnsley.gov.ukRequestLinux2.7.5Sorting Museremail

Hi

I've just upgraded to 2.7.5 mainly because I wanted to have Museremail sorted.  We use this to list contacts on an RFC form and it's much easier to find the ones you want when they are in a predictable sequence.  As an extension to this it would be great if they could be sorted by the last part of their real name - typical user, give him a sweetie and he wants jam on it!

cheers

Steve

  66103   Tue Dec 9 00:25:52 2008 Idea Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.5Please add Subst on Duplicate

 I would like to be able to substitute some attribute values when an entry is duplicated. I don't see Subst on Duplicate available in the cfg file syntax. Can you add that?

 

Thanks

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