outdated debian package, posted by Chris Körner on Fri Dec 18 18:08:54 2020
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Hi everyone,
I am currently trying to setup elog as a docker container. I wonder if there is any reason why the elog debian package is stuck at version 3.1.3?
Would it be possible to update it to the latest version? |
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Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Mar 22 14:56:12 2021
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Hi Stefan,
I've just tried to read the $text with subst into another field and failed.
It looks like $text is only available for the execution of shell scripts in the "execute new|edit|delete = <script>" command. |
Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Mar 22 15:10:12 2021
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$text is the full body text and can go over many lines. Since attributes are restricted to single lines, it's not possible to substitute them with
the body text.
Stefan |
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Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Mar 22 19:59:13 2021
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While the input widget of text attributes is a single line, they can easily be multi-line in the display - when you use HTML at least.
And of course the user can parse the text field and generate a single line, if he wants to.
If you leave it to me, I'll create wonderful applications to that feature :-) |
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Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Sebastian Schenk on Tue Mar 23 13:42:27 2021
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I am not Stefan, but maybe I can add to this issue.
Personally I think it is not a good way to dump all the information into the text field and try to let the server parse it.
This could be archived more simply by using e.g. the python elog scripts or using the elog command tool to directly submit well structured elog |
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Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 24 10:06:26 2021
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Sure, attributes can be shown multi-line, but they cannot be stored in the elog internal database. The database is a very old design and only allows
for single line attributes. Just look at a YYMMDDa.log file and you will see that. I would have to change the database format to somethign more advanced
like XML, but that would take me a couple of weeks or months. |
Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Mar 24 22:09:56 2021
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Hi Stefan,
no problem: if I just strip all newlines from the $text field (in HTML you use <br> anyway, the newline has no function apart from whitespace),
and my multiline attribute is fine to go. |
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How about string constants in config files?, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu Oct 21 11:15:20 2021
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My config files are often large and use some shell scripting. In these shell scripting part I interact with files and execute scripts in specific folder.
It would be nice to have the ability to define for example a file path once and reuse it in different parts of the config file. It would help to
make config files cleaner. For example: |