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  66055   Mon Nov 17 11:42:46 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chInfoLinux2.7.5Re: Installation problems
> I'm actually using elog on Debian and have been rolling my own ".deb" for a while now (starting with the old 
Debian
> Maybe you could add the Debian /etc/init.d/elog script to the "contrib"
> directory, with a suitable note in the README or something like that? That script has not changed in a long 
time and
> is still functional - and doing so would make it easier for people who would like to install elog on a Debian 
(or
> Debian-based, e.g. Ubuntu) system. I'll attach the script.

The problem is not putting this into the "conrib" area, but supporting it. Since I don't have a Debian system, 
may I suggest that you put it yourself into the elog:Contributions/ logbook. If people then get problems in the 
future, they can contact you directly ;-)
  66057   Mon Nov 17 12:20:17 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.7.5Re: Sorting Museremail

 

Steve Williamson wrote:

 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Steve Williamson wrote:

Hi

I've just upgraded to 2.7.5 mainly because I wanted to have Museremail sorted.  We use this to list contacts on an RFC form and it's much easier to find the ones you want when they are in a predictable sequence.  As an extension to this it would be great if they could be sorted by the last part of their real name - typical user, give him a sweetie and he wants jam on it!

cheers

Steve

 

 That's a bit hard since different groups enter their names differently. While for a human it's easy to figure out what the family name is (usually), this must not be true for a computer. So I would propose that you enter the real names in the sequence family name, given name like

Ritt, Stefan
Doe, John

then sorting will work as you like.

 

 Good point! However, the current sorting appears to be done on email address rather than name.  Having the option to sort on name, where we are in control of the format so could structure it accordingly, would be great.

regards

Steve

 

 Can you give me an example on how names an email addresses look in your case? If the email address has no fix relation to the real name, I personally find it much harder to find an email address on a Muserlist, since the real name is not shown there. I guess what you really want is a display of the email addres in the form

real name <email address>

then sort by real name. Right?

  66060   Tue Nov 18 09:13:26 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.7.5Re: Sorting Museremail

 

Steve Williamson wrote:

 

However, the main reason for the request was that the I was so pleased with the ordering introduced in 2.7.5 but, as it is more normal for me  to look down a list of names ordered by last-name/first-name than the other way about, I thought it worth asking if there was any way to do this sensibly.  I appreciate that it isn't simple and what suits me may well not suit others - so thanks for taking time to consider the possibilities.  I guess the only real solution is to define users differently, e.g. by structuring the name data into first name(s) and last name (not a global solution but would suit most of western europe and the USA at least!) but that is bound to have lots of impacts both on the application and on existing setups - so not really feasible, and probably not worth the disruption.

 

 That's correct. Adding first name(s), last name(s) requires major modifications which are not se easy and I don't have time for that in the moment. So we'll keep it for the time being.

  66061   Tue Nov 18 13:56:59 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux2.7.5-2130Re: Select -> Edit wipes dates

 

T. Ribbrock wrote:

I just ran into the following bug:

I have a logbook where entries have several attributes, among which several dates. All of these are set to "Type <attr> = date". If I use the "Select" action, tag several entries and subsequently chose "Edit", the values of all date attributes are wiped. All other attributes are kept at their original values, unless changed explicitly. For the date entries, the date choosers are shown (as when editing a single entry), but all set to blank.

Editing single entries works fine.

 

 This problem has been fixed in revision 2.7.5-2143. Please upgrade.

  66064   Fri Nov 21 09:24:07 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion  Re: Quick filter in this forum, how to do "Text" search?

 

Niklas wrote:

Hi,

 

In this forum there is a quickfilter for text search. How do I get that into my elog?

When I add:

Quick filter = Date, Type, Text

into config file. I get:

Error: Attribute "Text" for quick filter not found

 

How do I add the quick filter text search box?

 

 Quick filter = Date, Type, Subtext

as described in the manual 

  66067   Fri Nov 21 11:28:31 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5Re: Threaded emails

 

Paul O'Shaughnessy wrote:

Can you email a thread of log entries. I think this would be a very useful function, which would enable the logger in effect to send an entire history of a particular issue to the interested parties.

 

 Well, kind of. If you notify yourself with elog entries, they are grouped in a thread in your email application. From there you can forward the thread to someone. Or you forward the link to one entry in the thread, and if the link is the opened, the interested parties see the whole link. Sending the whole thread inside elog is however not possible.

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  66071   Sat Nov 22 20:45:05 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5Re: Several drop down menu's for a field

 

Niall Dooley wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to have several drop down menus associated with a particular field. My problem is as follows, currently I have a particular field where its value is a name of a person obtained from a list of names from a drop down menu. However, I would like to be able to select on certain occasions more than one name from this same drop down list of names. 

The field name in question is "Call-out" as in the name of a person called out. I guess I could add another field say "Call-out 2" and have a drop down menu of names for this new field too but I would like to avoid this if possible. So I would like possiby to have two (or more) drop down menus side by side for this Call-out field which would each populate this one field with the names selected (if any) from each drop down menu. This way if only an a selection is made from the first drop down menu then it should work as it does currently but if an entry was also selected from the second drop down menu then both names should populate the field when the log is complete.

I hope I have been clear in my question/request? Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestions received.

 

Try

Moptions = name1, name2, ...

This gives you not a drop down list, but a series of check boxes, where you can select multiple persons simultaneously.

  66073   Mon Nov 24 09:50:16 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5Re: Threaded emails

 

Niall Dooley wrote:

 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Paul O'Shaughnessy wrote:

Can you email a thread of log entries. I think this would be a very useful function, which would enable the logger in effect to send an entire history of a particular issue to the interested parties.

 

 Well, kind of. If you notify yourself with elog entries, they are grouped in a thread in your email application. From there you can forward the thread to someone. Or you forward the link to one entry in the thread, and if the link is the opened, the interested parties see the whole link. Sending the whole thread inside elog is however not possible.

 

 Hi Stefan,

Your suggestion of emailing a link for a log entry with which any interested parties open the link are able to see the entire thread works. However, it does not display the additional text which may be added in the text box below the standard field entries. To view this additional text would require the email recipiant to log into the elog account. The only problem with this is the interested parties may not have the priviledges to log into the elog account. Thanks for your time.

 

 You could implemente guest read-only access to the logbook (like for this forum).

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