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Mon Apr 3 10:35:37 2006

Re: Change in encoding close entry

> Maybe it is a wrong configuration, because in this forum it works well.
> If I change the encoding in the logbook entry I get "Submit modified ELOG entry?",
> and after clicking OK the entry is closed. Because this behavior is on all loggbooks
> it must be a global config entry, but I dont know, which.
>
> ...
> Use Lock = 1
> ...

I comes from using the lock. If you remove that, you won't get this dialog box any more.

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Mon Apr 3 16:32:52 2006

Re: Numerous questions that I am hoping to get a response on

Steve Jones wrote:

Stefan, I have several issues/questions that I am still hoping to get an answer on. Any chance? If you would rather you can send email to me directly.

I'm pretty busy these days, since we have a deadline on April 18th. I started already working weekends, so not much time is left for ELOG. But I hope it will get better by the end of this month.

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Mon Apr 3 17:09:19 2006

Re: elogd 2.6.1 program Crash is repeatable under Windows

Steve Jones wrote:

BTW, Stefan, unless you can make the most recent version of a Windows eLog available I cannot test the most recent -- I do not have access to a Windows development environment. Solaris-Yes, Linux-Yes, Windoze-No.

There is a 2.6.1-4 version for Windows for download, which contains the most recent code.

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Tue Apr 4 08:15:29 2006

Re: Simple math within an elog form

Steve Jones wrote:

This may sound a little strange but I am trying to determine if it is possible to create a series of attributes that may be assigned an integer value via OPTIONS, and then take the selected values and perform some simple math and display the result.

This item is already on the wishlist, so I added your vote there. But due to my workload, it will certainly not be implemented in the next few weeks.

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Tue Apr 4 20:45:28 2006

Re: Change in encoding close entry

> So if I switch the encoding the whole entry is reloaded, and the JS take it as leaving.
> Is it possible to change this behavior? Changing encoding should be handled different as
> "regular" leaving.

I fixed that in the current SVN version.

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Wed Apr 5 10:07:59 2006

Re: Simple math within an elog form

Steve Jones wrote:

Subst TotalRisk = $shell(echo $Risk1 + $Risk2 + $Risk3 > /tmp/elog_out)

What comes out with my simple echo or gawk line is "+ + " so it looks like the attributes are not getting passed into the $shell code?

The reason is that the substitutions get evaluated from left to right, so first the shell is called with $Risk1, and because the shell by itself does a subsitution and $Risk1 is not defined on the unix system, the shell returns an empty string, leading to "+ +" as the result.

I changed that in the current SVN version, so we have first the attribute substitions, then then shell substitution. The "echo $Risk1..." will of course not work, since it gets substituted by elog as "echo 12 + 23 + 45" (or whatever the numbers are), and the "echo" will just return these numbers without adding them. To make the shell to add things, you would need to define the risks as environment variables for the shell, so I guess the "gawk" method will work better for you. I tried it and it worked fine for me.

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Fri Apr 7 10:29:49 2006

Re: elog client authentication and attachment comment

Yoshio Imai wrote:

Until revision 1642, it was possible to submit entries to a password-protected logbook using the elog client without supplying authentication information. With revision 1671 this is no longer possible. In principle this is good. However, many of our run control programs use the elog client (via rsh to the elog server computer) to submit automatic entries, which fails now. In order for this mechanism to work again, we would have to change the command-line call in the sources, including now the password in clear text. Since this can be considered a security issue, we would like to avoid it if at all possible. I guess my request would go in the direction of PAM support, but would it be possible to revert to the old behaviour as an option? (If you tell me where in the code to look, we could probably also comment out the respective lines ourselves so that you don't have extra work...)

There was a quite strong request to not allow unauthorized access via the elog utility. People were also able to submit entries with the "curl" program without supplying authorization. So I rather would not like to go back to the old version. But I would propose a different scheme: We could save the username/password in a file on the server, which is maybe readable only by the owner. Then one could call elog with

elog ... -u @filename

so that the user name and password gets retrieved from the file on the server. This way the password does not have to be passwd over the network. BTW, you also could use ssh instead of rsh to prevent password being sent over the network in plain text.

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The second remark is about attachment comments. When editing a logbook entry, the attachment upload buttons appear again, but without the comment. Shouldn't it be there, too?

I'll have a look and fix it.

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Thu Apr 13 09:07:24 2006

Re: Can a field value be calculated during display?

Sridhar Anandakrishnan wrote:

I have a logbook which is a Calendar/Appointment book with Attributes: "Appointment DateTime", Place, etc.

I would like another Attribute called "When" whose value is calculated from Today's Date - Appointment date (so for example I could display today's appointments in red...). This calculation has to take place each time the logbook is displayed...

Possible? Useful?

No.

ELOG is an electronic logbok and should not be used as a full calendar application. There are much better packages for that, like PHP groupware. Better use one of those packages.

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