We use ELOG 2.3.5 for Windows with a German language file and have found 


some new problems:




. Certain strings are not translated.


Language error: string "Plese log on by clicking on following link and 


change your password" not found for language "de"


Language error: string "A new password for user <i>"%s"</i> has been sent 


to %s" not found for language "de"




While the first string is obviously written wrong, the second one misses a 


quotation mark.






. If a user uses the new "password forgotten" function, he receives an 


email, but after having clicked the URL in the mail, he gets the following 


error message as simple text, i.e. not formatted by use of the CSS file:




Invalid URL: Notizen/?redir=%3Fcmd%3DChange%20password%26old_pwd%


3DE3ARcjI/&uname=sal&upassword=E3ARcjI/ 


Bitte benutzen Sie die Zurück-Taste Ihres Browsers ...  




Nevertheless the new password was written into the specified password file. 


(This behaviour as far as we know was also with earlier versions of ELOG.)






. If one could not log in through the button "Login", one does not receive 


an error message, but will be pushed simply back to the main page, 


status "Not logged in". (This was as far as we know was also with earlier 


versions of ELOG.)








. If you want to change as an admin the passwords of several users, it 


would be convenient, to get always back to the page, where you may choose 


the next user ... but you will be pushed back to the main page with the 


messages. (This was as far as we know was also with earlier versions of 


ELOG.)








. But the simple change of passwords for users does not always succeed: I 


have changed the password for a user A to "anuvis", the next user B should 


have gotten the same new password, but this time it was not accepted. 


Message "Wrong password". Might it be, that this goes only once because of 


an initialisation problem ? I had to edit the password file manually.








. Opera browser 7.03 simply crashes, when choosing the direct URL to our 


logbook, i.e. http://localhost:8080/logbook2. We have set a general 


password file and a different read password for each of our logbooks.


If we choose http://localhost:8080/logbook1 everything is fine. We get a 


window "Authentication required" and type in simply the read password, no 


user name.


If we choose http://localhost:8080/logbook2 the behaviour is different. We 


see the window "Authentication required" appear, then Opera crashes.


Change of the read passwords did not change this erroneous behaviour. This 


problem was not with version ELOG 2.3.4.




In Internet Explorer 6 all is okay.






. NOWRAP tag in Date column


The date column takes quite a lot of space in the logs overview. As the 
information is only of secondary importance I would prefer date and time 
being wrapped like e.g. the contributors name. Of course, I could help 
myself with a 
 in my language file, but this would force a break also 
on 
the single message view.

> > Yes thats wicked perfect, now im prob being thick but is there a way to 
> hide 
> > logbook tabs in the same way, as i dont really want to use groups as the 
> > people that use the system arent really techie and the titles will 
confuse 
> > them :)
> 
> Well, I changed the flag from "hide from selection = 1" to "hidden = 1", 
> which hides it now also from the logbook selection tabs on the top row. But 
> this means that the only way to access the hidden logbooks is by entering 
> their URL directly (or from a bookmark). I'm not sure how useful this is...
> 
> New version under CVS.

Thats perfect, administrator such as myself can access those books directly 
from the URL, and can be used as an archive logbook running in sync with the 
live one, so hold records such as completed tickets in a request system once 
completed can be moved to the archive logbook.

Cheers fella  that is gonna help me a great deal.

I would like to dump mylog files into comma/tab seperated files. Is there 
an easy way to do it?

I tried to run elconv, but had no success. Always returns an error. 

Thanks,
k. 

> Yes thats wicked perfect, now im prob being thick but is there a way to 
hide 
> logbook tabs in the same way, as i dont really want to use groups as the 
> people that use the system arent really techie and the titles will confuse 
> them :)

Well, I changed the flag from "hide from selection = 1" to "hidden = 1", 
which hides it now also from the logbook selection tabs on the top row. But 
this means that the only way to access the hidden logbooks is by entering 
their URL directly (or from a bookmark). I'm not sure how useful this is...

New version under CVS.

> > I tried that but on the summary screen it displays a list of all the 
> logbook 
> > regardless of group, also im not using public groups im using a seperate 
> > password file.
> 
> Ah, you mean by "summary screen" the initial logbook selection screen where 
> each logbook is displayed in one line. For that case, I just added a 
> flag "Hide from selection". If set to "1", this logbook is not dispalyed 
> among the list of logbooks. Is this what you want? New version under CVS.

Yes thats wicked perfect, now im prob being thick but is there a way to hide 
logbook tabs in the same way, as i dont really want to use groups as the 
people that use the system arent really techie and the titles will confuse 
them :)

Im trying to make it idiot proof for them 

Cheers

> I tried that but on the summary screen it displays a list of all the 
logbook 
> regardless of group, also im not using public groups im using a seperate 
> password file.

Ah, you mean by "summary screen" the initial logbook selection screen where 
each logbook is displayed in one line. For that case, I just added a 
flag "Hide from selection". If set to "1", this logbook is not dispalyed 
among the list of logbooks. Is this what you want? New version under CVS.

> > Is there a way to hide logbooks from all views.
> > 
> > Basically i want to use the move function to move old entries to another 
> > logbook but only want administrators to be able to see the logbooks in 
the 
> > view, everyone will just see the primary ones.
> > 
> > At the min im having to put Archive logbook, everyone is complaining at 
me 
> > that there is too many to choose from :)
> > 
> > Any suggestions ?
> 
> What about grouping the archive logbooks into a logbook group? Like:
> 
> Group Pubilc = Logook1, Logbook2, ...
> Group Archive = Archive1, Archive2, ...
> 
> So if a "normal" user is in the public group, it only sees Logoook1, ... 
and 
> a single tab "archive", which is then (I hope) not too much to choose from.


I tried that but on the summary screen it displays a list of all the logbook 
regardless of group, also im not using public groups im using a seperate 
password file.

EDIT: I downloaded the latest elogd.c from CVS, replaced the one from the
latest tar, and recompiled.  Worked great!

Thanks for the prompt response, Stefan!

> > I am using 2.3.4 and I am still having this problem.  If someone posts a
> > message with an attachment, and I then reply to that message, the attachment
> > gets 'deattached' from that message.  However, the file is still in the
> > logbook directory, so it is possible to recover it, but it did cause a 
> slight
> > panic the first time it happened :)
> 
> Uups, that is indeed a problem. I found that it was unrelated to the first 
> one, so it was there since quite some time now. I fixed it. It will come out 
> in 2.3.6 or can be obtained already now from CVS. It is trongly recommended 
> to upgrade all installations to avoid this problem.