Hello

first of all, congrats for bring back the forum after down for sometimes, :D

but seems my old account is broken, I cant login with that anymore, so I make new account and strangely I can make identical account like the old one ahahahaha

okay first question :

Recently my elog setup got smtp host error, everytime someone submit log, error result that SMTP host is not found in global setting.

I dont't set mail server on my server so I cant use smtp host function, and I use register type 1 to avoid email function, but after sometimes those error occured, it seems some members accidentally check ëmail notification option

so, how to completely disable this function or maybe some work around on this error? I dont have mail server right now,

second

When we export logbook to CSV and open to microsoft excel, html tags still there, how to ommit html tags completely during export? and how to make nice table data from csv in elog? I saw many inconsistency there, especially on comment data

for example if I make more than two lines of logbook, second line will place in first column , not in the last column, just like the first line of comment.

If you have more than one topic it is better to do more than one post.

I did not understand your first question. You should not have a line "SMTP host= " if you don't want to send any email. Have you tried "Suppress Email to users=1" to get rid of the error message?

If you export in cvs format, then it is the correct behaviour that multiple lines of text in the body are put into quotation marks and printed as multiple lines in the output. Every spreadsheet program (Excel, Openoffice, Libreoffice, ...) should be able to read that into a table. I've tested it, it works fine. If you have a problem, then you'll need to attach your elogd.cfg file and the exported file in the forum and some screenshots of what your MS Excel does with it.

sorry for may bad english, not my natives :D

for first question, I'll make it clear,

after sometimes running elog, suddenly SMTP host error occured.

I dont have SMTP host= on my configuration, but that error keep show up.

how to disable email notification completely for my elog? or at least how to disable those SMTP Host error?

I'll try supress email users =1 to my elog.cfg and error still exist. where I should place supress email users flag to make it works?

on the picture attached, it is said there is no smtp host defined in global setting.

could it be because members check automatic email notification on their setting?

for second question I'll attach my csv file, and you will see <p> </p> tags still there, and inconsistency when open it to ms excel (see picture)

you can see that portion of text file (second line of text file and soon, placed in "id pesan")

please help us.

You need to specify "Suppress Email to users=1" in the [global] section of the configuration. And it does matter if the letters are capitalized on not.

That's not correct. Any option in the configuration file is case-insensitive. It should also not matter if the statement is under the logbook or in the [global] section. 

What you probably made wrong is to write "supress email to users =1" instead "suppress email to users =1". Note the second "p". So English in the end DOES matter, at least here 

PS: I'm no English native speaker either. I have been told that international business language is anyway not English, but "Bad English"

If you enter ELOG text body entreis as HTML, they will be exported as HTML, and thus you have the <p> tags. To avoid them, enter the ELOG text body as plain text, or just remove them in your spreadsheet via find and replace (find "<p>" and replace by nothing). Ther is NO HTML to text converter in ELOG, so they cannot be stipped automatically. And maybe other people DO want the full HTML there.

so I assume there is a way to force member to use plain text mode, right?  :D

how to make my member force to use plain text?

thanx for help sir,

Allowed encoding = 1

As written in the documentation (which you should read before asking questions here)

is it possible to set reply only for certain member?

all members can submit lobook, but only certain member can make reply on it

thanx for help and so sorry if I have too many question :D

You can use the switches

Alloe reply = <user list>

Deny reply = <user list>

to give only certain uses the right to use that command.

/Stefan

so let say I just want to add certain members for replying logbook, so I just need to add parameter Allow reply = <user list>

and automatically all members not listed will be forbidden, am I correct?

I dont need to specify members for "Deny Reply" right ?

Hi Banata,

If you only have a few people who can reply, then use

Allow reply = <user list>

and no need to produce a "Deny reply" list.

If most people are able to reply, but a few are *not* allowed to reply - bad behaviour or whatever - then the Deny reply list is more appropriate, and no need to generate an "Allow reply" userlist.

David.

I HAVE A LOGBOOK WHICH KEEPS THE RECORD OF ALL FAULT BOOKED BY DIFFERENT SUBSCRIBER.THIS LOGBOOK HAS THREE ATTRIBUTE DOWNTIME,UPTIME & TOTAL DURATION (DATE &TIME FORMAT) . I WANT TO CALCULATE THE TOTAL DURATION AUTOMATICALLY WHENEVR UPTIME VALUE IS GIVEN AND IF THE UPTIME IS NOT GIVEN IT SHOULD CALCULATE DEPENDING UPON THE SYSTEM PRESENT TIME.PLEAS EXPLAIN IT WITH EXAMPLE.

If you have the following elogd.cfg:

And the shell script /usr/local/elog/diff.sh is:

#!/bin/sh
s1=$(date -d "$1" +%s)
s2=$(date -d "$2" +%s)
d=$(echo "($s2-$s1)/3600"|bc -lq)
printf "%.0f hours" $d

Then DURATION is calculated from START and END in full hours.

It appears that if you define START and END as "datetime", then only the date part would be passed to the script. This may is a bug of elogd: Stefan, have you ever tried?

PS: Please do NOT write all capital text in a forum. Thank you!

I tried that It is not calculating  and it is giving the error "Shell execution not enabled via -x flag ".I started elogd -x from command prompt  it still gives the same error.

Yes, I forgot to mention that you need to enable shell script execution by starting the server with "elogd -x".

Before you start elogd from the command line you need to shutdown any running elogd; otherwise the port is blocked and the command line elogd cannot start: "sudo /sbin/service elogd stop"

From Linux you can edit instead /etc/init.d/elogd and add there the option "-x" to the line where "elogd" is started and then restart the service: "sudo /sbin/service elogd restart".

I am working in window system.Itries using elogd  stop and start  command  but it is always showing it is running.Kindly help  me  thanking you.

Unfortunately I cannot help you with Windows. But you must have started the service somehow in the first place: that is where I would expect you can stop it as well.

I HAVE A LOGBOOK WHICH KEEPS THE RECORD OF ALL FAULT BOOKED BY DIFFERENT SUBSCRIBER.THIS LOGBOOK HAS THREE ATTRIBUTE DOWNTIME,UPTIME & TOTAL DURATION (DATE &TIME FORMAT) . I WANT TO CALCULATE THE TOTAL DURATION AUTOMATICALLY WHENEVR UPTIME VALUE IS GIVEN AND IF THE UPTIME IS NOT GIVEN IT SHOULD CALCULATE DEPENDING UPON THE SYSTEM PRESENT TIME.PLEAS EXPLAIN IT WITH EXAMPLE.

1.I HAVE A ELOG BOOK WITH TWO ATTRIBUTE 'FROM' &'TO'. I WANT TO USE A FILTER WHICH WILL SEARCH FOR A VALUE  IN BOTH ATTRIBUTE .KINDLY HELP ME.

2. HOW TO CALCULATE THE TIME DURATION  AUTOMATICALLY BASED ON TWO ATTRIBUTES 'START TIME' AND 'STOP TIME' .

1a. If you go to the "Find" form, you can add filters on several attribute. The URL of the result page can be bookmarked: this is your filter.

1b. If you define quick filters on FROM and TO, then you can enter filters on both.

2. If you start elogd with the -x option, then you can execute scripts in the "subst" and "subst on edit" commands. Within those shell scripts you can use $START TIME and $STOP TIME to calculate the attributes value. Look for the "Subst" command in the documentation.

We've upgraded our ELOG installation to v3, and we really like the new CKeditor. However, one of my users has noticed a problem when using Iframe HTML elements with CKeditor; namely that the HTML is not present when trying to edit the post, and saving the post erases the HTML. 
I was able to reproduce this fairly simply, by trying to embed a youtube video. I would create a new post, click the "Source" view in CKeditor, and paste something like the following:
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RzZgFKoIfQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Upon submission, this produces a totally normal .log file in the logbook directory, and the video is viewable on the ELOG page:

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:52:20 -0800
Author: test
Type: General
Category: General
Subject: test
Attachment:
Encoding: HTML
========================================
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RzZgFKoIfQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Then, upon hitting "Edit," I am greeted by a totally empty CKeditor window, and hitting "Source" does not display the original HTML. 
Any help is greatly appreciated!

PS: Including the first line of the logfile in this very post would cause the submitted post to be truncated for some reason, although the preview looked fine. Pasting it here also caused the log to end abruptly. The string is "(dollar sign)(at symbol)MID(at symbol)(dollar sign): 9"

This is an issue with CKEditor, not with ELOG. 

Maybe this helps:

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/96069/ckeditor-removes-iframes-in-editor-after-update-to-6-x-1-14

Hello, I try to translate elog using 2.9 version, I never try on 2.9 until new version 3.0 released

I translate 2 files here : elcode_indonesia.html and eloglang.indonesia,

after new version 3.0 I try to load those translation to the latest version using :

Language : indonesia

but language still in English, What I'm missing here?

Maybe 

language = indonesia

instead

language : indonesia

???

sorry, this is the elog.cfg on my server

Theme = default
Comment = Logbook Balai Sabo
Attributes = Author, Category
Options Category = Rutin, Litbang
Required Attributes = Author, Category
Page Title = LOGBOOK
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Category, Author
self register = 1
Time format = %d %B, %Y
Password file = pass.txt
Self register = 1
Admin user = Banata
Allow delete = Banata
Preset Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author
Login expiration = 1000
Restrict edit = 1
Language = indonesia

and still I cant load my language, any idea?

The Language = ... setting has to be under the [global] section as written in the documentation: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html

ah really thanx, this is the one I missed,

oh btw, can I send this language to you?, if you want to add it as distribution on next version maybe, Indonesian language

Sure.

here you go language translation for Indonesia, if you find any mistakes or missing things please contact me

I also need elcode_indonesia.html and eloghelp_indonesia.html.

oh, okay, elcode_indonesia.html

for eloghelp still on progress, :D

this is eloghelp

Hello!

I was wondering if it is possible (and how) to define a template (something equivalent to an excel table with some required informations to be filled) that opens each time one wants to make a new entry of a given type, e.g., I want this template to open only when the informations concern data taking.

I hope I am sufficiently clear ...

Thank you,

I.M.

In ELOG you can define "attributes", so take one attribute for each informaiton you need. The flag these attributes as required via "Required attributes = ...". If you only want this attributes for certain occations (like data taking in your case), you can either do a separato logbook for data taking, or use "conditional attributes" to make these attributes only show up for data taking.

/Stefan