That has probably to do with the program with which you read your email. The coloring is done in a cascading style sheet, which the email program has to load from the elog server upon display. Most programs ask you if you like to "load images" for this email. This is a bit misleading since the style sheet is no image, but similarly loaded form an external source. I use Thunderbird, which remembers my decisions. So if I get an elog message from a certain email sender, and I click on "load images always from this sender", then it will show the colored background for each following entry. If the sender now is different (like if you use a different computer), this will be different and you have to load images once by clicking somewhere (mostly a bar above your email display).

This is possible with conditional attributes. An additional trick would be to not show the text body of an attribute is not selected. This way the user first has to select the attribute, then the text field with the specific preset will show up. The configuration would be something along these lines:

Attributes = Type, Subject
Options Type = One{1}, Two{2}, Three{3}
Show text = 0

{1} Preset text = text1
{2} Preset text = text2
{3} Preset text = text3
{1,2,3} Show text = 1

Of course you have to supply proper text files text1, text2, text3.

- Stefan

 Thanks, it works perfectly!

> I'm (mis)using elog as a database. I like the fact that I can have presets for fields, but I also like the fact 
> that I can make a duplicate of an entry. Now when I make a duplicate, all the fields get overwritten with the 
> preset-value. Is there a way to get the preset-values only on entering a NEW reord and NOT on a duplicate ?

I fixed that in the SVN revision 1583. The fix will be contained in the upcoming version 2.6.1.

Right. Number of options is limited to 100.

> Right. Number of options is limited to 100.
hi, i found the MAX_N_LIST macro and increased it