Elog 3.x comes with CKeditor, not FCKeditor any more! I would actually recommend to use the CKeditor from the current Elog 3.1.1 source package if running together with Elog 3.1.1.

Hi Andreas, I opted for the first solution since the Debian package, although outdated and broken, has some goodies like a systemd unit for managing the daemon which is very handy. I downloaded FCKeditor 2.6.11 from SourceForge (after a long search, seems that CKeditor made its parent almost disappear from the web), unpacked it in the proper folder and not the WYSIWYG editor works. I have just a couple of minor issues: there is no attachment drop area (I had it in my old Debian 6 server) and the editor toolbar has an ugly "Windows 95" look; see the attached image. I can live with these problems but if the can be easily fixed then obviously I would do that, can you give me any hint? Thank you very much.

I tried to paste an Image from Clipboard into the CKEditor 4.5.1. Unfortunatelly, that doesn't work. I used Firefox, version 42. When I  looked in the javascript error console, it reported that "TypeError: b is undefined, ckeditor.js:1139:112". The variable  d.config.filebrowserImageUploadUrl could not be found.

I set the variable in the file ckeditor-config.js in the folder scripts, but that didn't solve the problem. As far as I can tell, Pasting Image from Clipboard does not work in this forum neither, but I don't know whether this is in purpose.

Pasting via the button "Paste from Word" works as it inserts a 64base formated image, but that's not what I'm searching for. Also normal upload of files works fine and puts the file in the correct folder (logbook/year/)

I suspect that this might be a Debian packaging issue; however no one replied to my help request on the Debian forums so I try posting the question also here. I insatlled Elog on my Debian Jessie machine, I can open it with a browser but when entering a new post just a simple plain text editing box is shown instead of the WYSIWYG editor, and no drag and drop area for attachments is shown. When I start the elog service with "systemctl start elog" I get this suspect message in the journal: "FCKedit NOT detected". Indeed, I see that the elog installation creates a symlink which I guess is supposed to point to the fckeditor installation, which nevertheless is missing:

root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll fckeditor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 25  2014 fckeditor -> ../../fckeditor
root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll ../../fckeditor
ls: cannot access ../../fckeditor: No such file or directory

Is this a Deban misconfiguration or a bug in Elog? thanks

>  
> > Hi Kenzo,
> > I think it would help me to understand your problem, if you would provide a minimal configuration file with two
> > logbooks.
> > 
> > There is no ELOG internal feature to propagate data from one logbook to another; 
> > using a shell script is the only method I know.
> > But you could easily put your script into the background: 
> > ELOG can handle multiple parallel request, by handling one request after the other.
> > 
> > Kind Regards, Andreas
> 
> Hi Andreas
> 
> Im using python to do the scripting. Everything works fine until it comes to submitting the entry to my logbook.
> The extractTable.py file is the one running the command to submit to elog.
> I see now that im starting a subprocess in my python script (subprocess.call) and thats why its not finishing.
> Could you perhaps suggest how I would go about doing this by putting my scripts in the
> background? I might have to look at multiprocessing in python as well. The reason im using python is because im
> doing alot of file processing as well. I do have to add that this method works perfectly when i just run the python
> on its own. As soon as i run it by submiting an elog entrie from the browser it hangs on the subprocess.call method.
> 
> Regards, Kenzo

Hi Andreas

I sorted my problem out, I had to use threading in python such that I can time the submissions to the elog server.
Everything works fine now. Thank you for the assistance.

Regards
Kenzo