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    icon6.gif   Re: Elog client usage, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jul 27 04:36:40 2011 

Alan Grant wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Alan Grant wrote:

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). [...]

[...] 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"
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
    icon6.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 10:50:43 2012 

Christian Herzog wrote:

[...] 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)
    icon6.gif   Re: Forgot Password, posted by Christopher Lee on Tue May 1 09:20:00 2012 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Christopher Lee wrote:

We seem to have a problem with retrieving user passwords using the forgot password system 

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.

 Thanks mate.. Glad to know it wasn't just me going insane? I'll keep an eye out for the new file

    icon6.gif   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 psi.pdf
> > 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.

    icon6.gif   Re: Adaptation of the language, posted by Markus Grosse-Kock on Thu Feb 20 17:37:06 2014 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Markus Grosse-Kock wrote:

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

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

Danke, hat funktioniert.

Gruß Markus

    icon6.gif   Re: Problem with ELOG, posted by Markus Grosse-Kock on Thu Mar 13 12:39:41 2014 

Markus Grosse-Kock wrote:

Hi,

we have a problem. After windows updates, the elog service doesn´t start:

 

What can we do?

Best regards,

Markus

After I uninstalled the software and reinstalled, the function is working again.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Markus

    icon6.gif   Re: Subst Attributes..., posted by Francois Cloutier on Mon May 4 16:03:19 2015 
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 ?
    icon6.gif   Re: Attribute not updated, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu May 14 04:59:03 2015 
 
> Seriously, I really hope It could make it... Could you try it on your side ?

My personal opinion here is, that if you want others to investigate your problems, then the best way to do it is like that:
- attach a minimal configuration that reproduces your problem (never attach a 100 line configuration, unless you've tested that the problem disappears
regardless of which line you remove!);
- attach the entry data, if the behaviour depends on the data;
- use a specific, to the point subject line;
- explain what you did, what happened and what you would have expected to happen;
- ask kindly; and then
- wait and hope for the best ;-)

(This is actually a very general procedure; I think it is applicable to all newsgroups, forums, etc.)

BTW: This tip was absolutely free of charge ;-)
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