Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Gary Cramblitt on Tue Jul 15 23:37:58 2003
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Great program! Thank you.
Short of manually editing the logbook files, is there a way I can change the
date of an entry? I want to transfer my "Linux Journal", which I have been
writing as a regular document for several months, into elog so I can take
advantage of the threading, sorting, find, etc. |
Re: Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jul 16 08:32:35 2003
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> Short of manually editing the logbook files, is there a way I can change the
> date of an entry? I want to transfer my "Linux Journal", which I have been
> writing as a regular document for several months, into elog so I can take
> advantage of the threading, sorting, find, etc.
You cannot change the entry date, since this is kind of system stamp which
should not be modified. But you can add an attribute like "Issue" for your
Linux Journal, where you can add manually the month and year of release or so.
Then you can preset this attribute with the current date, which you can change
for older issues, like
Attributes = ...., Issue
Preset Issue = $date
Date format = %B %Y
Hope this helps.
- Stefan |
Re: Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Gary Cramblitt on Wed Jul 16 21:21:52 2003
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> > Short of manually editing the logbook files, is there a way I can change the
> > date of an entry? I want to transfer my "Linux Journal", which I have been
> > writing as a regular document for several months, into elog so I can take
> > advantage of the threading, sorting, find, etc.
>
> You cannot change the entry date, since this is kind of system stamp which
> should not be modified. But you can add an attribute like "Issue" for your
> Linux Journal, where you can add manually the month and year of release or so.
> Then you can preset this attribute with the current date, which you can change
> for older issues, like
>
> Attributes = ...., Issue
> Preset Issue = $date
> Date format = %B %Y
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Stefan
Yes! Thank you. But now another question. How can I hide the entry date
attribute on the summary screens and automatically sort by Issue? No point in
showing both dates. |
Re: Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Gary Cramblitt on Wed Jul 16 21:31:26 2003
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> > > Short of manually editing the logbook files, is there a way I can change the
> > > date of an entry? I want to transfer my "Linux Journal", which I have been
> > > writing as a regular document for several months, into elog so I can take
> > > advantage of the threading, sorting, find, etc.
> >
> > You cannot change the entry date, since this is kind of system stamp which
> > should not be modified. But you can add an attribute like "Issue" for your
> > Linux Journal, where you can add manually the month and year of release or so.
> > Then you can preset this attribute with the current date, which you can change
> > for older issues, like
> >
> > Attributes = ...., Issue
> > Preset Issue = $date
> > Date format = %B %Y
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > - Stefan
>
>
> Yes! Thank you. But now another question. How can I hide the entry date
> attribute on the summary screens and automatically sort by Issue? No point in
> showing both dates.
I figured out how to hide columns, using the "Display search" parameter. (BTW,
suggest you modify the Administrator manual to mention that "Display search" applies
to the initial display as well as any "Find"s. I had seen this, but assumed it
only applied to actual search results.) Still have not figured out how to change
the default sort attribute however. |
Re: Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jul 17 10:28:22 2003
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> I figured out how to hide columns, using the "Display search" parameter. (BTW,
> suggest you modify the Administrator manual to mention that "Display search" applies
> to the initial display as well as any "Find"s. I had seen this, but assumed it
> only applied to actual search results.)
Fully agree. The name comes from historical reasons. I renamed "Display search"
to "List Display". Will come in the next version.
> Still have not figured out how to change
> the default sort attribute however.
There is a little trick to do that:
Start page = ?rsort=Issue
Since sorting is done only lexically, you need a special date format like
Date format = %Y %m %d
in order to sort correctly. |
Re: Modify the date of an entry?, posted by Gary Cramblitt on Fri Jul 18 01:58:10 2003
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> > I figured out how to hide columns, using the "Display search" parameter. (BTW,
> > suggest you modify the Administrator manual to mention that "Display search" applies
> > to the initial display as well as any "Find"s. I had seen this, but assumed it
> > only applied to actual search results.)
>
> Fully agree. The name comes from historical reasons. I renamed "Display search"
> to "List Display". Will come in the next version.
>
> > Still have not figured out how to change
> > the default sort attribute however.
>
> There is a little trick to do that:
>
> Start page = ?rsort=Issue
>
> Since sorting is done only lexically, you need a special date format like
>
> Date format = %Y %m %d
>
> in order to sort correctly.
Thanks again! That did the trick. One little hassle is that I had to go back and edit
all the Issue fields in my existing records so they would have the correct date format.
Rock on OSS! |
Only show log entries for logged-in user, posted by Bartjan Wattel on Wed Jun 30 11:59:57 2004
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Hi,
Is it possible to restrict the display of logbook entries to the entries
created by the currently logged-in user?
I'm thinking of using the ELOG system in a school laboratory environment:
students must write entries in the logbook about their excersises, but I
would like that students can not "see" what other students have written. To
make it even more complicated, I would like that students can see their own
entries and the teacher entries.....
Is something like this possible?
Thanks in advance
Bartjan Wattel
the Netherlands |
Re: Only show log entries for logged-in user, posted by Ralph Kuehn on Wed Jun 30 14:59:06 2004
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One way would be to create a seperate logbook for each student including the
teacher. It should then be fairly simple to set up the permissions however you
would like. For a large class it might be a bit cumbersome to set it up this way.
Ralph Kuehn
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to restrict the display of logbook entries to the entries
> created by the currently logged-in user?
>
> I'm thinking of using the ELOG system in a school laboratory environment:
> students must write entries in the logbook about their excersises, but I
> would like that students can not "see" what other students have written. To
> make it even more complicated, I would like that students can see their own
> entries and the teacher entries.....
>
> Is something like this possible?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bartjan Wattel
> the Netherlands |
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