Re: Elog client usage, posted by Alan Grant on Tue Jul 26 21:50:05 2011 
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| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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| Alan Grant wrote: |
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I have searched the Elog forum and docs at length for actual examples of how to use the Elog client and I apologize if I missed it somehwere but could someone please provide some actual examples of how the parmeters are used? I haven't had much success setting it up just going by the Elog command syntax quide.
What I intend to do is load a raw text file into an active logbook directly, either one line at at time or batched from a text file ("m" option).
Also, I saw a Perl script contribution somewhere on the site which appears to offer the same functionality as the above util. Just wondering why there would be two methods, and which might be the best for me to use? Thank you.
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I suppose you have your demon "elogd" running and you can connect to your logbook via the web interface?
Then you can use the "elog" command to upload a text file as one entry.
If you want to split the text file to one-entry-per-line, you need to write a batch script to do that.
The usage of the "elog" command is descibed in the ELOG User's Guide: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html#misc
The command line for "elog" has to define all "Required attributes" with "-a ..."
elog -h <host> -p <port> -l <logbook> -u <user> <password> -a <attribute>=<value> -n 1 -m <text-file>
<port> can be omitted if port 80 is used, "-u <user> <password>" can be omitted if anonymous entry creation is allowed.
Here's an example to write to the demo logbook at midas (local text file /tmp/hello.txt contains "hello world")
elog -h midas.psi.ch -l Linux+Demo -d elogs -a Author=nobody -a Type=Other -a Category=test -a "Subject=hello" -m /tmp/hello.txt
I hope this helps.
PS: please never refer to a location as "somewhere on the site".
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It seems straight forward enough but I must be missing something in my elog command string. I run the client utiltiy but it always hangs after pressing Enter from the cmd window. It could be the way I specifying the host or subdir but I'm not sure. I tried multiple variations.
Some more info: For the prototype I'm just running Elog locally. I installed it to my XP in "c:\program files\elog". I verified tht elogd process is running. With the Elog page already open (ref my attached cfg file) I typed the following, observing case sensitivity, then press enter and at this point it just hangs:
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l Tartan+Tow+Log -d elog -a Ticket+date="Jul26/11"
Note since all attributes are optional I only included "Ticket Date" for now until I can get this cmd working.
Please bear with me as I don't have an extensive technical background but I would be very grateful for any help as it's for a project at work. Soonest response would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Alan
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Re: Elog client usage, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jul 27 04:36:40 2011
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| Alan Grant wrote: |
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| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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| Alan Grant wrote: |
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What I intend to do is load a raw text file into an active logbook directly, either one line at at time or batched from a text file ("m" option). [...]
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[...] The usage of the "elog" command is descibed in the ELOG User's Guide: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html#misc |
[...] I typed the following, observing case sensitivity, then press enter and at this point it just hangs:
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l Tartan+Tow+Log -d elog -a Ticket+date="Jul26/11"
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You wrote you want to upload a text file, then you need to add at the end "-m <file>". E.g. if the text-file is named "C:text.txt", then write:
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l Tartan+Tow+Log -d elog -a Ticket+date="Jul26/11" -n 1 -m C:text.txt
The "-n 1" is just to tell elog to upload plain text. If you do not specify "-m <file>" then it expects input from a pipe and therefore hangs. If you don't know what "input from a pipe" means then ALWAYS use the "-m <file>" option.
PS: if "Ticket date" is of the format "date" then it is sensitive to the formatting of the date string. "Jul26/11" is likely not a legal date format. Better do not specify it for the first test. Write instead:
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l Tartan+Tow+Log -d elog -n 1 -m C:text.txt
PPS: do you really use a sub-directory "elog" instead of the default location "logbooks" for your ELOG logbook files? If not, then leave out this option, too.
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l Tartan+Tow+Log -n 1 -m C:text.txt
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Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 10:50:43 2012
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[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...]
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If you want to use https you should know what a certificate is.
Certificates are used to encript the data, but at the same time they are used to identify the host.
ELOG is delivered with a self generated certificate.
This can be used to encript the data, but no certification authority knows this certificate, so nobody can guaratee that you are connected to the right host.
Most browsers will warn you, that nobody did and if you don't care you need to change the security settings of you browser to accept the connection anyway.
The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option) |
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Re: Forgot Password, posted by Christopher Lee on Tue May 1 09:20:00 2012
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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We seem to have a problem with retrieving user passwords using the forgot password system
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Thanks for reporting that bug. With the help of your config file I finally could reproduce and fix it. The fix is contained in SVN revision 2462.
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Thanks mate.. Glad to know it wasn't just me going insane? I'll keep an eye out for the new file |
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Re: elog's image manipulation of .png file generated from a pdf/jpg, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Fri Jul 19 14:03:29 2013
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> > I can confirm this bug in V2.9.2. Also after submitting the entry, the orginal image is being displayed, with no rotation, resizing etc...
> Have you tried on the Demo logbook on the PSI server or on your installation. I just attached an image to this entry, rotated it twice, reduced its size and it works fine. The point is that I have to reproduce your bug in order to fix it, but it seems I cannot.
> /Stefan
Hi Stefan,
I've noted that you did your test with a PNG while he was reporting about a problem with a PDF. I'll give it a try with your server 
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It appears to work nicely.
I would suggest that the reporters of the issue add a little bit of information, like the version of the operating system, of ImageMagick and if the problem occurs with only a specific browser, etc.
Regards
Andreas
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Cool: while it worked fine when I've created the entry, it stops working when I EDIT the entry that had been rotated! Actually it sometimes works and sometimes not.
As a workaround you can always go to "1:1" and then retry to rotate. That worked here.
Andreas
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PS: I've noticed that the thumbnail PNG file only updated in the List view after I did a reload. I'm using Firefox 10.0.11 ESR on SL6.0. |
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Re: Adaptation of the language, posted by Markus Grosse-Kock on Thu Feb 20 17:37:06 2014
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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Hello,
I want to change the language to German. But it does not work.
Here my config:
Theme = default
Resource dir = D:\Elog
Language = german
Where is the problem? Or is it not possible to change the language in Windows?
Best regards,
Markus
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You put the "Language = german" statement into the logbook section, but it has to be placed in the [global] section as written in the documentation. Unfortunately this section of the configuration file cannot be accessed through the web interface, so you have to edit the elogd.cfg file manually, which might require admin rights.
Viele Grüsse nach Reken,
Stefan
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Danke, hat funktioniert.
Gruß Markus |
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Re: Problem with ELOG, posted by Markus Grosse-Kock on Thu Mar 13 12:39:41 2014
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Hi,
we have a problem. After windows updates, the elog service doesn´t start:
What can we do?
Best regards,
Markus
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After I uninstalled the software and reinstalled, the function is working again.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Markus |
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Re: Subst Attributes..., posted by Francois Cloutier on Mon May 4 16:03:19 2015
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Wow !!! Im impressed :):):) I didn't expect such a fast reply !!!
Thanks alot Stefan, I will try it right away !!
Andreas, I really like the idea of hiding attrib 1 and attrib2 and fill attrib3 with a script (I guess using elog.exe command line) ?
I play a little with it and I can modify an attribute with the command line but I cant figure how to set the cell style based on the attrib2 and
replace attrib3 value with attrib1 value... (basicially I need help !!!) do you think you could help me ? |
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