Hi

I'm doing something wrong but can't work out what! 

I've created a new logbook with some date attributes that need to keep in step, e.g. one date ("receipt date") is set to the date the new record is created and another ("response required") to 7 days later.  The logbook doesn't use threaded messages, just a single page for each log entry with Submin/Preview/Back.  The dates are set with:

Preset Receipt Date = $date

Preset Response Required = $shell(gawk 'BEGIN{ print $Receipt Date + 86400 * 7}')

"receipt date" and "response required"  are set correctly when the log is written but if I change "receipt date" then "response required" is not altered - presumably because Preset only works on "New".  Tho I haven't found a way to make this dynamic with Subst.

When the log is updated later a third date may be entered ("proposal submitted") and this should calculate a fourth date ("proposal expires").  Again, I thought I could do this with some sort of "Subst" but can't work out how.  If I use Subst then the value of "proposal expires" isn't changed at all and if I use Subst On Edit then the value isn't changed until I go in to edit the log when the correct "proposal expires" date gets calculated and displayed, e.g.:

Subst On Edit Proposal Expires = $shell(gawk 'BEGIN{ if ($Proposal Sumbitted > 0) {print $Proposal Submitted + 86400 * 30}}')

Am I trying to do the impossible, and is there a document that will help me to understand when different updates (Preset, Subst, Subst On..., Change etc) happen and comparing their use?

A great piece of software - though I sometimes find it hard to get my head round all that it can be bent to do!

regards

Steve

It is occasionally convenient to be able to put the Edit button at the beginning of the line in list view, e.g. when pages are wider than the screen it saves having to scroll across to find it.  Would it be possible to do something similar with the Attachments button?

regards

Steve

 Thanks for that - it works perfectly.  Another success for elog!

Typing in a text for a new entry results in an error message, whenever
one forgets to fill in mandatory attributes (as it should happen !). However
after using the back button in this case (Using netscape 4.79) I made the
experience, that the text typed in gets lost. Other browsers like Mozilla
or IE do not have this problem. Any idea how this problem can be
avoided for netscape as well ?

In the "find" command, when searching over all logbooks, it
would be nice to see ALL attributes, which are common for all
logbooks (e.g. typically the author name), not just
logbook name, date and text.

> > In the "find" command, when searching over all logbooks, it
> > would be nice to see ALL attributes, which are common for all
> > logbooks (e.g. typically the author name), not just
> > logbook name, date and text.
> 
> That depends on how you specify what gets displayed in a search (with 
> the "Display search" option for example). If you try the following link:
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Forum/?mode=summary&all=1
> 
> you see that all attributes are displayed from the three logbooks in this 
> installation.

How does the corresponding elogd.cfg entry look like for the
display search command ? - I can't reproduce this behaviour...