Good Day

I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.

Regard
Kenzo Abrahams

If you are using IE as your browser, the problem may be with that rather than the server. By default IE 11 display intranet sites in a "Compatibility mode" which breaks the FCKEditor in Elog version 3.  Fortunately this mode can be disabled, which is what I have had to advise users here to do.

• Click on the "cogwheel" and select "Compatibility settings" 
• Deselect "Display intranet sites in Compatibility view"

Pictures attached

You can turn off thumbnail creation with

Thumbnail size = 0

as written in the documentation. The PNG files are "thumbnails" (= smaller versions of large pictures). Mostly people put large images into elog entries, which take long times to download. Having small thumbnails insted speeds up download times considerably.

Stefan

I am honestly not sure if I understand the question. You can run ELOG behind an Apache Webserver. Look for example at https://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#secure

How can I host elog in a web server. I need sample config file on [global] segment to show config on how it can be host. Please need your help. Thanks

Hi,

We have a user who posted a lot of inline jpg.  The elog system converted those to png and thus cause the size of the elog to expand about ~4x of the original size.  It is caused the problem of entry size too large for email notifications.  Is there a way to turn off the conversion to png picture file?  May I know also know why it converts to png to store on the server?  Thank you very much.

Jacky

Hello,

we have been using elog 2.7.1 as a logbook to signal problems and so on in our Engine Room Simulator for a couple of months now. Since this is exactly what we're looking for, I've installed the latest release in our sailing simulator as well. On this occasion I thought about updating the logbook in our engine room simulator as well. Unfortunately I cannot do that, because I get the error "elogd.exe is not a valid Win32 application" with every version of elog higher than 2.9.2 (so every version 3.x.x). The difference between our two simulators is that the elog package for the sailing simulator is installed on a Windows Vista machine, while the version for the engine room simulator is installed on a Windows 2003 Server.

Question: can I get/find/compile the latest version as a Win32 application and if yes: how or where?

Thanks,

Jean Pierre

Oups: there is a flaw in this approach! You can only get different commands for Anonymous and Login Users. You cannot select different command for Admin users: they will just have the "Config" command automatically.

You could allow anonymous users to make new entries and restrict login to administrators. But that is certainly not what you want, so forget my suggestion altogether.