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I intend to create a script that updates one of our elog logbooks based on mails it receives. I was hoping to be able to do this using the "elog" command line tool. Adding a new entry works fine, as does "replying" to an existing entry. The only thing I cannot get to work is editing an existing entry. All entries ahve several attributes and I intend not to use the "message" itself. I tried the following (on the machine this elogd is running on):

1. Create a new entry with Attribute1 set to "value":
   

   elog -a 'Attribute1=value' -x -h localhost -l 'LOGBOOK' -p 8080 -u USER PASSWD

   This works - the entry gets created and is displayed properly.
NOTE: I found that this does not work if LOGBOOK has any spaces in it - I would get error messages where the logbook was not found.
 

2. Edit this entry to set a second attribute:

   elog -e 1 -a 'Attribute2=something' -x -h localhost -l 'LOGBOOK' -p 8080 -u USER PASSWD

   The result was: Error transmitting message. Running the same command with -v gives me a whole bunch of text with at the end this message (I've stripped the HTML): "This entry has in meantime been modified by someone else. Submitting it now would overwrite the other modification and is therefore prohibited." However, I know for certain that this entry is not being editied by anyone at that moment, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here...

Tehe, leave it to us "stupid users" to break your nice little program in new and exiting ways... ;-) But: THANK YOU! Both things are indeed working now - that brings me one step closes to my automated logbook, which is great!

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O elog.txt

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?unamee=USER&upassword=PASSWD"--save-cookies cookies.txt

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something&unm=USER&upwd=ENC_PWD" -O elog.txt

I thought about grabbing the ID on first creation. The problem with that is that I really would have to run parallel "databases" - one in elog to keep the information I want plus a second one which maps the elog-IDs to the "real" IDs - and the second one would also have to deal with things like "ID exists", "ID doesn't exist", "ID gets deleted" and so on - just the kind of hassle I want to avoid. But what you suggest with wget will most likely be sufficient. The logbook in question is readable for everyone (only editing/writing requires authentication), so I can search without password hassle. In fact, this will work:

wget -q "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O -| grep '\$@MID'|awk '{print $2}'

Et voila, I have an ID. This will generate a bit more traffic than a parallel "DB", but I think it will be less susceptible to errors, as all information is kept within the elog logbook at all times. Thanks again for your help - time to do some scripting! :-)

I have two logbooks running, one for current accounts and one for non-active ones. The idea is to move an entry from one logbook to the other once an account becomes non-active. Both logbooks share some attributes (e.g. the name of the account, its creation date, ...), but both also have some uniqe attributes.

While I was playing with this set-up, I ran into a problem:

1. Move an existing entry from current to non-active.
   • "Type" and "Status" have options. "Created" and "Archived" are in date format.
   • "Created" and "Type" are supposed to be locked in non-active. This works.
   • "Archived" and "Status" are empty, as they do not exist in current. This also works.
   • Depending on the "Type", only certain of the additional attributes are shown on edit. This works as well.
   • I would also like "Status" to have some influence on how certain other attributes are preset and/or shown. This is where the problem starts...
2. Edit the entry in current.
   • As expected, "Created" and "Type" are shown as locked.
   • As soon as I change the selector for "State", the whole edit mask is redrawn - and the date shown in "Created" is deleted.

I've been experimenting with this quite a while and as far as can see the following applies:

• Only date format attributes are affected
• Only locked attributes seem to be deleted completely
• If I have a date attribute that is not locked and I set it partially in the edit mask (e.g. only select the month or enter a year), it is also deleted
• If I have a date attribute that is not locked and I set it completely in the edit mask (i.e. day, month and year), it is not deleted

During the experiments I came up with a stripped down version of the non-active logbook configuration, which does show the bug. It only contains Type, Created, Status, Archived. To make an entry to experiment, you'll have to comment out the "Locked attributes" line, make a new entry (with "Created" date), the uncomment that line.

I hope my description isn't too confusing - please don't hesitate to ask if anything is unclear. I'd be much obliged if you saw a chance to fix this at some point...

Best regards,

Thomas

We have a logbook in which we use two "Status" attributes, both of which are MOptions. What we want to do is have the corresponding line of the list change its colour depending on the combination of those attributes. I have done so successfully using "Style" for a single Options or MOptions or even two Options (using conditionals and a third attribute), but up until now I have no luck with two MOptions. Conditionals do not seem to work with MOptions (the manual only mentions Options and when I tried anyway, it did not work... ) and multiple "Style" statements also do not seem to work. I've tried the following:

MOptions StatusA = Status-A-red, Status-A-orange, Status-A
MOptions StatusB = Status-B-red, Status-B-orange, Status-B

Style StatusA Status-A-red = background-color:red
Style StatusA Status-A-red | Status-A-orange = background-color:red
Style StatusA Status-A-red | Status-A = background-color:red
Style StatusA Status-A-red | Status-A-orange | Status-A = background-color:red
Style StatusA Status-A-orange = background-color:orange
Style StatusA Status-A-orange | Status-A = background-color:orange
Style StatusB Status-B-red = background-color:red
Style StatusB Status-B-red | Status-B-orange = background-color:red
Style StatusB Status-B-red | Status-B = background-color:red
Style StatusB Status-B-red | Status-B-orange | Status-B = background-color:red
Style StatusB Status-B-orange = background-color:orange
Style StatusB Status-B-orange | Status-B = background-color:orange

As far as I can see, the "Style" statement for StatusB only gets evaluated if none of the statements for StatusA matches (i.e. StatusA = Status-A). What I would want to achieve is that any "red" condition in either StatusA or StatusB takes precedence over "orange" and "none" and that "orange" takes precedence over "none".

Is there any solution for this problem short of merging both status attributes into one (which would be very unwieldy, especially, as StatusB is not used at all in some cases)? Any suggestions are most welcome!

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

Originally, all information about our machines was stored in a spreadsheet with one sheet for the hardware of the machines and one for the software. By now, I've sucessfully moved the software part to an elog logbook and am now looking at transferring the hardware part as well.

As both lists are machine-name based, one of the options would be to merge both lists, as this would place all machine-related info into one logbook. The downside of this is that I get so many columns in list view that the result is quite unwieldy. Hence, I would like to hide some columns - ideally creating a "hardware view" and a "software view".

From the documentation, the only option I could find that seemed suitable was "List conditions". Unfortunately, I do not quite understand from the manual how this is supposed to work, so I'm quite possibly doing something wrong. I've tried this:

; General settings
List conditions = 1

; Attributes
Attributes = Type, Created, StatusA, StatusB, Archived

; Options & Tooltips
Options Type = Type1{10}, Type2{11}

; Conditionals
{10}List display = Edit, Type, Created, Status
{11}List display = Edit, Type, Created, StatusA, StatusB, Archived

but no matter how I set "Type", it does not seem to have any effect on the List display. One thing I don't understand for example is how does elog decide in List view which entry sets the condition? If all entries are set to the same value (in this example e.g. "Type1")? The first entry? Or am I missing something altogether?

Also, if there are alternative ways how I could accomplish my goal, I'd also be most grateful for suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

Thomas