elog -a 'Attribute1=value' -x -h localhost -l 'LOG\ BOOK' -p 8080 -u USER PASSWD

Message successfully transmitted, ID=12345

 I fixed two things:

• The logbook can now contain a space. Enclose it in double quotes such as elog -l "LOG BOOK" ...
• The error you report comes from the fact that you are the first person using elog submissions together with "use lock=1" in the configuration file. This has never been tested and therefore does not work . So I fixed this by adding a new hidden parameter. If you update to SVN revision 2122, things should work

Concerning your request of editing existing entries by their idea, I agree with Yoshi that you could grab the ID upon the first submission. An alternative is to make a direct search on a logbook. Since this is not implemented in the elog command line tool, you have to use wget for it:

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O elog.txt

A problem here is that the username and password are normally transmitted in an encrypted form as cookies by your browser after you logged in. Now you have to convince wget first to log in like

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?unamee=USER&upassword=PASSWD"--save-cookies cookies.txt

followed by a second call to wget with --load-cookies cookies.txt. I tried that but was not successful since the login procedure above redirects to the elog listing page, and only the cookies set after the redirection were saved in cookies.txt. Maybe you can figure out how to do that. The only way I could get it to work is to supply the encoded password, which I manually obtained from the password file. The URL was then

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something&unm=USER&upwd=ENC_PWD" -O elog.txt

Tehe, leave it to us "stupid users" to break your nice little program in new and exiting ways... ;-) But: THANK YOU! Both things are indeed working now - that brings me one step closes to my automated logbook, which is great!

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O elog.txt

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?unamee=USER&upassword=PASSWD"--save-cookies cookies.txt

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something&unm=USER&upwd=ENC_PWD" -O elog.txt

I thought about grabbing the ID on first creation. The problem with that is that I really would have to run parallel "databases" - one in elog to keep the information I want plus a second one which maps the elog-IDs to the "real" IDs - and the second one would also have to deal with things like "ID exists", "ID doesn't exist", "ID gets deleted" and so on - just the kind of hassle I want to avoid. But what you suggest with wget will most likely be sufficient. The logbook in question is readable for everyone (only editing/writing requires authentication), so I can search without password hassle. In fact, this will work:

wget -q "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O -| grep '\$@MID'|awk '{print $2}'

Et voila, I have an ID. This will generate a bit more traffic than a parallel "DB", but I think it will be less susceptible to errors, as all information is kept within the elog logbook at all times. Thanks again for your help - time to do some scripting! :-)

> I've been able to select a specific logbook entry and move it, and I've 
> been able to filter and select and toggle, but I can't figure out how to 
> get the Move To option to show up on the main logbook menu....

To be able to move entries between logbooks, you have to enable the "move to"
command with the option "Menu commands" like:

Menu commands = Back, New, Edit, Delete, Reply, Find, Config, Move to, Help

Having done this, the menu "Move to xxx" should show up when you select an
individual entry, where xxx is the name of the other logbook(s). If you so a
"Select" on several entries, a new button should show up which lets you move
all selected entries to the other logbook(s). See elog:/1 for an example. If
you do not observer this behaviour, please let me know.