I have 4 services running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machines, 4 separate logs, only one of them is doing this, but that could be because only one of them is trying to delete records once they are posted, I cannot say.

On that one log, everything runs fine until they try to delete a record, and they are doing it under the admin login, but the service hangs.  anyone trying to log in get the 404 error that the page is not available.  to clear it I have to open Manage/Services and then Task Manager.  First I kill the process for that log book, then I can restart the service and everything is back.. trying to stop the service and then start it, or just restart the service, this does no good, in fact, it will hang at stopping the service.. it is not responding at all.  this happened to the same log when I had this on the original Windows Server 2003, so it is not new.. they just don't delete things for a long time, then they seem to do it every week, more than once.. and usually at night or on the weekend. (are they just doing it to mess with me?  Maybe, but I do not think so since it would not get me in trouble if I were busy, out of town or just not home and could not get to it until the next business day and they know this..

Any ideas what could cause this?

My Configuration is as follows, with only the names changed to protect the guilty:

[global]
port = 8081
SSL = 1

css = solar.css
password file = PWFILE
self register = 0
login expiration = 0
restrict edit = 1

Allow Password change = 0
List Menu Commands = New, Find, Select, Config, Help
Menu Commands = List, New, Edit, Delete, Reply, Help
Enable Attachments = 0
show attachments = 0
display mode = summary

admin users = admin,ME
login users = user,ME,user2,user3
deny config = user,ME,user2,user3
deny delete = user,ME,user2,user3
deny edit = user,ME,user2,user3

Welcome Title = <p><font size=6 color=white> S---- T------ Furnace Logs</font><br><font size=3 color=white> These logs are C---------- Confidential: </font> <font size=3 color=55ff55> Green </font>
Attributes = Badge, Run, Recipe, Mod, Rebraze, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty
Options Mod = Boolean
Options Rebraze = Boolean

list display = date, Badge, Run, Recipe, Mod, Rebraze, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty

Options Recipe = AN001, AN002, AN003, AN004
Extendable Options = Recipe
Required Attributes = Badge, Recipe, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty
default encoding = 1
allowed encoding = 1
allow HTML = 0
suppress default = 3
suppress email on edit = 3
display email recipients = 0

[V8]
Theme = default
Comment = V8 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V8-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V9]
Theme = default
Comment = V9 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V9-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V10]
Theme = default
Comment = V10 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V10-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V11]
Theme = default
Comment = V11 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V11-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V12]
Theme = default
Comment = V12 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V12-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V13]
Theme = default
Comment = V13 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V13-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[Freezer]
Theme = default
Comment = Freezer Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = Fre-%Y-####
Preset recipe = None
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[MyTest]
Theme = default
List Menu Commands = New, Find, Select, Config, CSV Import, Help

Comment = MyTest Log
Preset Run = MT-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

Hey,

I am testing out automated entries using elog on the command line. The file I pass has html code for a table; the resulting entry shows the html code for the table instead of generating the table. Is there a way to make elog parse the code to show a formatted table?

Thanks  in advance.

The elog command has the option "-n <n>" to tell elog, what type of text it should expect.

[-n 0|1|2]               Encoding: 0:ELcode,1:plain,2:HTML

It is necessary for elog to know the type of encoding, otherwise it would not show non-html content correctly.

Hi Stefan and Andreas,

When I submitted the previous entry, I had an error message about not able to send via psxxxx.psi.ch come up as
a red bar at the top of the elog page - sorry, cannot remember the subdomain name correctly.

The observations I was going to make is firstly the change in layout of the Find section - maybe I'll get used
to it but the change in layout wasn't warmly welcomed.

Also, shame that moving from Subversion means that the increments are no longer in easy numerical order.  So I
believe that I am commenting on the latest possible version available, a738232.

A question.  My logbooks directory is now 1.8GB.  Yes, there are a lot of attachments etc to bulk it out, but
it's all plain text comments.  Is there a limit as to the size, or total number of entries?  Elog takes a
notible amount of time to index it all these days, and I have wondered whether a couple of "instabilities" might
be caused by this.  Anyone any thoughts?

I don't know how I managed it, but I got elog to generate two entries with the identical ID no.  The new entries
were different as well.  The log file faithfully had recorded the two separate replies to the entry having the
same ID no as well.   Unfortunately I went and corrected it by editing the YYMMDDa.log file without keeping a
copy.  I have also had a mysterious entry ID0 appear in threaded display, despite there being no entry 0; and if
it appears, it appears in two or three places within the list of threaded entries.

I tried to attach a screenshot showing this, but kept getting a 502 bad gateway error.
The message in the red banner is
Error sending Email via <i>"psquad.psi.ch"</i>
with that html showing, by the way.
> Hi Stefan and Andreas,
> 
> When I submitted the previous entry, I had an error message about not able to send via psxxxx.psi.ch come up as
> a red bar at the top of the elog page - sorry, cannot remember the subdomain name correctly.
> 
> The observations I was going to make is firstly the change in layout of the Find section - maybe I'll get used
> to it but the change in layout wasn't warmly welcomed.
> 
> Also, shame that moving from Subversion means that the increments are no longer in easy numerical order.  So I
> believe that I am commenting on the latest possible version available, a738232.
> 
> A question.  My logbooks directory is now 1.8GB.  Yes, there are a lot of attachments etc to bulk it out, but
> it's all plain text comments.  Is there a limit as to the size, or total number of entries?  Elog takes a
> notible amount of time to index it all these days, and I have wondered whether a couple of "instabilities" might
> be caused by this.  Anyone any thoughts?
> 
> I don't know how I managed it, but I got elog to generate two entries with the identical ID no.  The new entries
> were different as well.  The log file faithfully had recorded the two separate replies to the entry having the
> same ID no as well.   Unfortunately I went and corrected it by editing the YYMMDDa.log file without keeping a
> copy.  I have also had a mysterious entry ID0 appear in threaded display, despite there being no entry 0; and if
> it appears, it appears in two or three places within the list of threaded entries.

Hi Stefan and Andreas,

With the latest incremental version of elog (a738232), I have noticed that when attaching a pdf file, the
.png thumbnail is not generated when the "upload" button is pressed - there is just the usual small line saying
what the latest attachment is.  If this happens, a subsequent attachment will force the generation of the
thumbnail for the *previous* attachment, and again no thumbnail for the latest attachment.

Submitting the comment will also generate the thumbnail.

As of yet, I cannot find any consistent pattern to this.  Also, it's hardly a disaster, but I have been fooled
when attaching a pdf file that subsequently turned out to be damaged and thus unreadable.

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

Hi

I've written a powershell script parse a html table that contains old log book data that i would like to import to a elog book.  I've attached a example of the output.

When i attempt a import i get this error

"XML file does not contain <ENCODING> element"

The file does contain an encoding for utf-8  I've tried converting the xml to ANSI and ISO-8859-1 encodings but i get the same error.

is there something obvious that I'm missing?

here is the config of the log book:

[WLTST]
Theme = default
Comment = Test Logbook
Attributes = Author, Object, Action
Comment Author = Username
Comment Action = What
Comment Text = Why
Required Attributes = Author, Object, Action, Text
Page Title = Test Logbook
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Type

I hope this helps.

 Hi Andreas

That worked,  thank you so much. now I'm on to a new error. 

Now every time i try to do the import it crashed the elogd. 

OS is windows server 2008 R2.  I have the elogd installed as a service.

here is the even log:

Faulting application name: elogd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x51248707
Faulting module name: elogd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x51248707
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x000682da
Faulting process id: 0x558
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf37d8870fc9a1
Faulting application path: D:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\elogd.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\elogd.exe
Report Id: defc3f39-a3cb-11e3-9dd5-005056954c86

I have attached the Data file I'm using to generate the fault every time.  same config as before.   Any Ideas?

 Anyone have any luck reproducing the error? or have suggestions on how to fix it?

I am handling several ELOGs for medium-sized collaborations (scientific experiments) with a large number of authors (~250) and chose to have single-user access and entries for every author - in the config file, the "Options Author"-List contains ~150 name for now.

However, the Author drop-down menu stops after ~100 names - is that a ELOG-webserver hard limit? I checked there is nothing strange in the author names following (no strange character, etc.).

I tested it on Firefox, Chrome, Safari - it does not seem to be a browser issue.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Hello Kay,

I had to look it up in the source code: yes, you are right, it is hard-coded in elogd.h

elogd.h:#define MAX_N_LIST      100

You can of course change the limit and recompile.

As an alternative, you could have sub-menus with less than 100 entries  (disclaimer: the following is untested example):

Cheers

Andreas

Hello Andreas,

thanks a lot for your quick reply - both options are valid and working. For simplicity (the author list is generated automatically from a shell script) I opted for the first one.

Best regards,

Kay

 Hi

I just want to know if there is a way to upload a bunch of images at once. I need to upload ~50 images per day and of course it is really tedious. 

Thanks!!

The "standard" HTML protocol does not allow multiple selection of images. You can use the "elog" command-line utility to upload images from the terminal window. We plan in the summer this year a switch to HTML5, which does allow upload of multiple images plus a drag-and-drop functionality.

/Stefan