I read how to use the email all feature in the syntax page after I messed up. I haven't done anything with the password so I don't know why I get a a password message but it happened when I put 5 email addresses in. Anyway if I have to wipe out ELOG and start over to have admin capabilities again, do all of my logbooks have to be rewritten? Can I import existing logbooks into a new ELOG? This ELOG is critical to our operation and I would rather not have to wipe it all out if at all possible.

Thanks Stephan!    - Terry

 Fantastic! That worked great. Thanks so much for the help guys!!

Terry

Good Morning,

I would like to limit the ability to edit certain attributes in an ELOG logbook, depending on the user who is logged in.  I.e. if "guest" or a standard "login user" is logged in, I only want to allow the user to edit "attribute1" & "attribute2" of say, 5 attributes.  However, if an Admin user or specific user, say "Terry" or "Bob" is logged in, I want to allow ALL 5 attributes to be editable.  To expand on this, I may want to even limit the visibility of the attributes as well.

I've read though "Condition Attributes" section of the help page, but it is not clear to me how/if I can do this?  Is that section even relevant to what I want to accomplish?

Can anyone provide some guidance?

Thank you for your time & help!

Sincerely,

Terry

Hi Eddy,

Thank you for your response.  I had a feeling that was the case, but I had high hopes! :)  The reason I would like this feature is because I am trying to use ELOG as a software anomaly tracking log, where any user can create an ELOG and fill out "category", "computer" etc, but only administrators can fill out the "status" & "assignee".  If I am lucky, this will be an added feature in a future revision.

Thanks again,

-Terry

Is it possible to include more than one style attribute in a "Cell Style" directive?

For example, if I want to change the background color and text color for a given cell:

Cell Style Status Fixed  = background-color:green;color:white

If so, what is the proper way to encode it?

Thanks,

Terry

I've created an elog where users can then enter links to a file: for example they would enter:

<a href="file:///M:/Data/Inspection%20Reports/ABC123.doc">ABC123</a>

If they are running this on their desktops where everyones M drive is mapped to the same location, not a problem, the file opens perfectly.

The problem we have is some people work off of site and hence they run everything from a memory stick (USB drive), then once back in the office, copy the memory stick back on to the network.

Unfortunately when off of site the href link M: is no longer valid as the M drive doesn't exist.

Hence i've been trying to open a local file with the following syntax: 

<a href="file:///../ABC123.doc">ABC123</a>

It just won't open

Hence in my frustration i basically copied the word file ABC123.doc into every single directory on the memory stick thinking surely this must work, it must find it somewhere, unfortunately not.

What am i doing wrong?

Hi Stefan

Unfortunately this would become impractical for us as many of the test data files which we'd need to link too are Gb's in size, some over 100Gb, hence only the files needed to do a say an inspection of the equipment would be copied onto memory sticks. Currently we use an excel speadsheet to store hyperlinks to all of the files / directories we need - unfortunately some people forget to update this and it was asked could we do it using elog as people are familiar with this wonderful peice of software.

Hence why i'm now investigating - so is it actually posible?

Kind regards

Terry 

Hi Stefan,

Obviously it's not magic but my inability to explain. I've attached a quick jpg of the file structure we use. So for every project we just repeat the file structure. It then becomes a browser based interface for our engineers, inspectors, project managers etc. so via the network they can access the data anywhere onsite.

Elog is used in an iframe on the manrec page. Here we record several logs (a record of everything we do, a record of test equipment, tools used, harnesses, connectors made and disconnected, etc. and what i'm now trying to achieve a document record / check list).

Now in the data directory we store hundreds of documents from procedures, circuit diagrams, mechanical drawings, parts lists, test reports and data, inspection reports, down to consumables like what type of cloth and liquid was used to wipe down a cable.

So the bulk of documents can fit on to an 8G memory stick, the only section that doesn't fit is the test data.  So when we need to move off site, or supply this data to a subcontractor we copy the contents (minus the test data) on to a memory stick, when the memory stick is returned we simply synchronise it back to the network. So the only links that would fail to work off site are links to test data - which we are not worried about.

Now, any new person working on the project needs to review the check list (hopefully the new elog if i can get it to work) part of this check list  / document record could say something like - carry out inspection, refer to drawing <href link> now this is where the problem occurs, as when the files are on the site based machine, we know the file structure is on the M:Drive; however when the memory stick is now plugged into a subcontractors machine / laptop we have no control of the drive allocation, so how can i get the link to the drawing to work?

When they finish the job required, they upload the data to the memory stick and state where.  ie inspection carried out - results passed see report "xyz" <href link>

I hope this now makes more sense

Kind regards

Terry