> OK elogd.cfg is attached.

I tried to reproduce your problem, but without success. I only have to login once. 

So can you please check how your cookies are set? Under Mozilla Firefox, enable
prompting for cookies (Tools/Options/Privacy/Cookies/Keep kookies=ask me every
time, IE must have similar switch). Each cookie contains a path, for which it
will be sent to the elogd in the future. Since you have your password files in
the [global] sections, they are valid for the whole set of logbooks and the path
is therefre "/". This means of course that the browser also tries to send the
cookies to the logbooks in the other top groups, since in the URL path they are
all next to each other (like "/Work+Requests", "/Completed+Work+Requests").

With the cookie prompting enabled, you can check which cookie gets set for which
directory. You should see a cookie "unm" for username, "upwd" for the encrypted
password and "urem" for the "Remember me" button. If the cookie contents is
empty, the cookie will be removed.

So carefully check the sequence of setting and resetting of cookies, trying to
figure out what goes wrong. It is a good idea for a starting point to delete all
your cookies.

- Stefan

> Currently there is a dropdown when searching for MOption fields. Maybe you could 
> allow multiple selections in the dropdown. This to me is an "OR" search.

Multiple selections are not possible in HTML, only a single value can be selected at
a time.

> Was wondering  if it was possible to increase the height that the text box
> for an attribute is displayed as.

What you ask for is multi-line attributes. This is not implemented, but on the
wishlist since some time, where I added your vote.

Best regards,

  Stefan

> I have a play with the Preset text setting and see what I can come up with. By the
> way there is a spelling mistake in the config.html page. In the Conditional
> Attributes section you use the Preset text setting as an example but have spelt it
> as "Prset text ="

Thanks, fixed.

<SELECT NAME="lid" multiple size="5">

Oh, nice, I didn't know of that. However, I prefer to have multiple options to be selected
with individual check boxes, this saves more vertical window space. So I added that
functionality to the find page. If more than one option of a MOptions attribute are
selected, they are or'ed together during the search. You can try that in this forum with
the "OS" for example.

> I was just wondering if it is possible to define what logbooks you want
> mirrored in the [Global] part of the elogd.conf file.

I added a new option

Mirror exclude = 1

which has to be put into the individual logbook section (not the [global] one).
The modification will be contained in the next release.

> Is there any way to automatically export the logbook(s)? 

Kind of. You can use "wget" under Linux (use cygwin under Windows to get wget
under Windows). Then issue a

wget "http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/forum/?cmd=Search&mode=xml"

and you will get an XML export. Same works with CSV export. If you put that
command in cron, you have this on an automatic basis.

> Is there an inbuilt way to find the last entries changed in an elog?
> 
> I could add a "Last Mod" attribute and then config "Subst on edit Last Mod =
> $date", but it occurred to me that this functionality might already be in
> this wonderful tool somewhere, but I just haven't found it yet.
> 
> So, is it?

No it isn't. Not everybody wants it. So you have to do it in the way you
outlined it. Also have a look at http://midas.psi.ch/elog/faq.html#11

- Stefan