We're using elog as our CMDB, but now management wants us to employ "web services" and I fear going to another tool (elog is fitting the admins like a glove, so we'd rather keep it)

Is it possible to configure elog to be able to run as a web-service ?  (basically getting xml-output according to a specific (SOAP) schema instead of html output)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services

A 'Web service' (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network." Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.

The W3C Web service definition encompasses many different systems, but in common usage the term refers to clients and servers that communicate using XML messages that follow the SOAP standard. Common in both the field and the terminology is the assumption that there is also a machine readable description of the operations supported by the server written in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The latter is not a requirement of a SOAP endpoint, but it is a prerequisite for automated client-side code generation in many Java and .NET SOAP frameworks (frameworks such as Spring and Apache CXF being notable exceptions). Some industry organizations, such as the WS-I, mandate both SOAP and WSDL in their definition of a Web service.

Has anyone developed a report tool for elog?  I would like to be able to sort certain items and send them to either a printer, or an email (external to my own use).

If not, any ideas on an easy means of doing this?  I write a lot of Perl, so that would be an option for me if the text is easily obtained.

Thanks

After I moved an item from one logbook to another one I cannot reply on this item anymore.

When the submit button is clicked it returns: Submit not allowed

This eLog server running Linux is sync'd with an server running Windows XP.

On the windows server the funcionality is working perfect(so no Submit is not allowed on a reply)

Hi,

I love this software. I am not a programmer but have learned alot about the program.

I have 2 questions.

1. when i do a reply it will bring the original qutes with it but i have the option to change what had been entered. once i do the reply and reply to the reply i can not change the first reply but can change the second reply. This just started last week and i am not sure what has changed. i even uninstalled and reinstalled. If I try to just the HTML i tcomes up with code? If I do elcode seems to do ok just not able to stop the editing of the the last reply. Plain seems to do the same as ELcode.

2. I have also had trouble with E-Log not starting on my XP machines. Any ideas?

Thanks for sharing such a powerful program it is sweet.

Kyle

Any reason why when I click "Reply" to a previous submission that the body is full of HTML code?

See below:

<p>
<table width="98%" align="center" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #486090;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td cellpadding="3px" style="background-color:#486090; font-weidht:bold; color:white;">Hal Proctor wrote:</td></tr>
<tr>
<td cellpadding="10px" style="background-color:#FFFFB0;"><p>
<table width="98%" align="center" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #486090;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td cellpadding="3px" style="background-color:#486090; font-weidht:bold; color:white;">Quote:</td></tr>
<tr>
<td cellpadding="10px" style="background-color:#FFFFB0;">removed the thing and the other thing....added this and that!</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</p><p> </p>
testing reply</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
 

Here is my logbook config:

[Logbook]
Theme = default
Comment = Maintenance Logbook
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Shift
Options Type = Repair, Routine, Preventative, Other
Options Category = Emergency, General, Change-Over, Other
Options Shift = 1, 2, 3
Extendable Options = Category
Required Attributes = Author, Type
Page Title = Maint Log - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Preset Author = $long_name
Preset on reply Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author
Quick filter = Date, Type, Category

I have a logbook with data in it that I need  to  rename  and preserve the the existing data (old book) in the newly named book (i.e. can I move all of the data from one book to a new book and than delete the data from the original book)?

As always thank you for your time.