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Re: Creating ELog Links not working properly in HTML Editor

Hi Stefan,

yes, I know that a plain text "elog:1" works in the HTML editor, too.

But if you put "elog:1" in the URL field of the link dialog, then ELOG screws up: you get the text

elog:1">elog:1

and the link points to link type "URL", protocol "<other>", URL "1".

Or more precisely, the HTML source looks like the following:

<a href="1">elog.1</a>"><a href="1">elog.1</a>

(I've replaced ":" by "." here in the source, to avoid another iteration of links by ELOG).

That is not what I would have expected:

either it should have been remained unchanged, or it should point to the right URL of the entry elog:1 (the latter case preferred :-).

Cheers, Andreas

Stefan Ritt wrote:

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.

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

I can confirm this bug.

But I don't think this has to work as you've described it, when using the HTML editor: if you use HTML, you can use the link feature of the editor.

But that link feature does currently not work at all with internal elog references, not even a simple elog:1">elog:1 (as you can see here). I suppose there is some more work to do for Stefan on that ;-)

Cheers, Andreas

Edmund Hertle wrote:

Hey,

the syntax for creating links to other elog entries has a small issue in the HTML editor. The link will not be created properly if there are whitespaces in the name of the logbook. Using ELCode (or in a simple attribute field) the whitespaces can be replaced by "+", but this does not work in the HTML editor. The work-around would be to use ELCode mark-up instead of HTML.

Example 1 (this should work): elog:Contributions/47

Example 2 (this will not work): elog:Config+Examples/11

Example 3 (will also not work): elog:Config%20Examples/11

68144

Thu Oct 15 12:32:19 2015

How does one create a html template for an entry

Good Day

I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.

Regard
Kenzo Abrahams

68145

Thu Oct 15 14:34:36 2015

Re: How does one create a html template for an entry

> Good Day
> 
> I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
> a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
> or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regard
> Kenzo Abrahams

So-called "custom" entry/view forms are a bit for experienced people. You should be fluent with HTML and JavaScript. The (minimal) documentation is here: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66909

If you want a table style input form, better use Google Spreadsheets.

Stefan

68149

Mon Oct 26 11:06:46 2015

Logging entries from the command line

Good Afternoon

Im trying to automatically post an entry using information saved in a text file. I have followed the example in the users guide but i always seem to get a error message saying transmission failed. Lets say for instance I have a user named John and his password is Blue and he wants to log into a logbook called home from a textfile the command im using to log a message from the file is

elog -h localhost -p 8080 -u John Blue -l home -a Author=John -m textfile

I cant seem to figure out why i keep getting this error message. I even tried deleting the password file because i thought it might be an authentication issue.

Can anybody assist me please it would be much appreciated.

Regards

68150

Mon Oct 26 11:16:54 2015

Re: How does one create a html template for an entry

> > Good Day
> > 
> > I am new to elog and have a question. This is best explain with an example. If I have two logbooks named "home" and "work" and I would like all the entries of home to be of a specific html format (for example a table containing
> > a set amount of rows and columns) and work can be any plain text entry how would I go about doing this? I saw the documentation mention something about html templates but i cant seem to find the section about where they are stored
> > or how they are created and applied to a specific logbook. I know how to restrict the entry encoding to either html, elcode or plain text for a logbook. Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Regard
> > Kenzo Abrahams
> 
> So-called "custom" entry/view forms are a bit for experienced people. You should be fluent with HTML and JavaScript. The (minimal) documentation is here: https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66909
> 
> If you want a table style input form, better use Google Spreadsheets.
> 
> Stefan

Thank you Stephan this really helped me.

68151

Mon Oct 26 11:18:57 2015

Re: Logging entries from the command line

Run the elog command with an additional -v flag (verbose output), and you will see what the elogd server return. It's HTML, but you should be able to see some error message.

kenzo Abrahams wrote:

Good Afternoon

elog -h localhost -p 8080 -u John Blue -l home -a Author=John -m textfile

I cant seem to figure out why i keep getting this error message. I even tried deleting the password file because i thought it might be an authentication issue.

Can anybody assist me please it would be much appreciated.

Regards

68152

Mon Oct 26 11:24:46 2015