Right, spaces won't work. But others work. Andreas, if you just put elog:1 without any link etc. just as plain text, it will be converted automatically into a link.

A workaround is to explicitly specify a link to an elog entry. Press the link button from the editor toolbar, enter a name and copy the full URL from the browser address bar, like here: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/68129. If you switch to "Source" (Top left editor toolbar, you can changed the link name manually, like here.

You are right. "Edit" should be more like "Replace". I changed that in the documentation.

I acknowledge the request to replace or append only a specific attribute or attachment, and put it on my to-do list.

Stefan

[-e <id>]                Edit existing message

The "elog" command has no "append" feature. You can either create a new entry, or you can overwrite an old entry. Therefore this is not a bug but the intended bahaviour.

I admit that the documentation is misleading, since overwriting an existing entry is called "editing":

[-e <id>]                Edit existing message

I interprete your posts that you would like to have two new features for the "elog" command:

• to append text to the body of an existing entry
• to add additional attachments to an existing entry

Without a specific application in mind I would like to add a request (for consistency):

• to modify a specific attribute of an existing entry.

Cheers, Andreas

I can confirm this bug.

Yes it was a path issue PHP was not loading correctly environmental path

> > <p>Hi,</p>
> > 
> > <p>I have a problem running elog command from php script. Basically in the php I call system(&quot;elog -h etc etc.. And from the php command line works but not in the browser apparently without errors (php apache 
> logfile no problem), any suggestions?</p>
> 
> Hey,
> this sounds more like a PHP issue.
> Which PHP version are you using? 
> Which webserver? 
> Which php function are you using: shell_exec() or exec()? Try looking at the return of exec()
> Is the elog file set to the correct file permissions to be executed by the webserver?
> Is the elog file in the PHP path or do you take care of defining the correct path?
> 
> 
> eddy

> <p>Hi,</p>
> 
> <p>I have a problem running elog command from php script. Basically in the php I call system(&quot;elog -h etc etc.. And from the php command line works but not in the browser apparently without errors (php apache 
logfile no problem), any suggestions?</p>

Hey,
this sounds more like a PHP issue.
Which PHP version are you using? 
Which webserver? 
Which php function are you using: shell_exec() or exec()? Try looking at the return of exec()
Is the elog file set to the correct file permissions to be executed by the webserver?
Is the elog file in the PHP path or do you take care of defining the correct path?


eddy

Hey,

You can use the elog command line tool and submit the same attributes to the 5 different logbooks by iterating over the logbook names executing something like this:

elog -l logbook1 -a "attr1=value1" -a "attr2=value2"

elog -l logbook2 -a "attr1=value1" -a "attr2=value2"

elog -l logbook3 -a "attr1=value1" -a "attr2=value2"

elog -l logbook4 -a "attr1=value1" -a "attr2=value2"

elog -l logbook5 -a "attr1=value1" -a "attr2=value2"

Another option would be having an additional common logbook, removing the commonly shared attributes from the other logbooks and add an attribute which links to this entry (using the "elog:logbook/ID" syntax as a value).

Cheers, eddy