Internet Explorer fails to display correctly some aspects of pages generated by elog when the zoom functionality is used (Ctrl + and Ctrl -).  This is really a bug in the IE renderer rather than elog, but since IE can be persuaded to do better relatively easily it might be worth making some minor changes to make elog more robust when used with the buggy Microsoft browser.

The problem I encountered was initially with the multiple checkboxes for an Moptions attribute, but I noticed later it also affects the logbook tabs at the top of the screen.  If you start creating a submission to this forum in IE (7 or earlier, at least) you can see the problem; when zooming, the text labels and  the checkboxes do not scale together so start overlapping, and the same happens with the logbook tabs and the text links on them.  The problem is apparently to do with a proprietary IE concept called "layout" - see http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html for details - and IE struggles when some elements do not have the hasLayout property set to "true".

The fix is to coerce elements to have the hasLayout element set to "true" by giving them some benign CSS property.  The best I can find is to set "display: inline-block" for some of the key elements, and this can be done by modifying default.css rather than the elogd.c code.

Adding

span {
  display: inline-block;
}

to default.css (e.g. just after the default style definition for the "td" element) and adding

  display: inline-block;

to the style sets for the .sltab and .ltab classes (generic, not those specific to the "a" element) seems to prevent IE doing bad things with the display when zooming without messing up the display in Firefox.  I have not tested this comprehensively or in any other browsers, but I thought it might be worth passing on.

Cheers,

Richard Stamper

Hello,

For some reason if I define a "login user" that is allowed the configure
option he is also allowed to change the configuration file. According to the
documentation it seems like this should NOT be the case. Any ideas as to
what the problem might be? 

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Ralph 

One way would be to create a seperate logbook for each student including the
teacher. It should then be fairly simple to set up the permissions however you
would like. For a large class it might be a bit cumbersome to set it up this way.
 
Ralph Kuehn

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to restrict the display of logbook entries to the entries 
> created by the currently logged-in user?
> 
> I'm thinking of using the ELOG system in a school laboratory environment: 
> students must write entries in the logbook about their excersises, but I 
> would like that students can not "see" what other students have written. To 
> make it even more complicated, I would like that students can see their own 
> entries and the teacher entries.....
> 
> Is something like this possible?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Bartjan Wattel
> the Netherlands

In a configuration with elog running (8080) under Apache (80) [as explained in admin guide], what is the syntax for tunnelling in with ssh, of both the ssh command and the browser locator?

Maybe some more information will help with the question.  Here's the results of my playing around with URL = /host.domain/subdir in elog.cfg.  Commented out, I can access locally with http://localhost:8080 and tunnelled (1234:host.domain:8080) with http://localhost:1234, with and without Apache (i.e., Apache is bypassed?).  URL = /host.domain/elog in elog.cfg works locally with browser locator localhost:8080 (of course), localhost/elog, and host.domain/elog, but the tunnel directly to 8080 no longer works, nor does http://localhost:4321/elog (even though this ends up showing the same URL on the remote browser as on the local browser) (4321:host.domain:80).  http://localhost:4321 brings up the Apache window.  Every other URL assignment I tried failed both locally and remotely, so, I assume the ssh tunnel directive is wrong, or the browser locator, or maybe still URL = .  Anyway, my question is, what am I doing wrong?

Howdy and Thank you in advance.

       Can I limit an elog entry mails to only go to my e-mail, my supervisor and the person who is entering the elog entry.  I have the Elog server on Windows XP Pro running version 2.7.8.2282.

Thank you

Paul

Hello Sir,

        I'v been a long time user fo Elog for about 14 years.  We use it for indexing our Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting Minutes for Decision on Properties within the Town of Hampton.  Is it possibel to by-pass the SMTP mailer for building logins and password changes.   We are a small network where we deal wiht the customer face to face in reseting password and builing new users.  Having the user reset them selves doesn't happen and normally we just take a ticket and do the task for them. 

We are building a new user and take we have not done in 10 years.  In those ten years the decsion was made to The Town onto Office 365 E3 GCC  and remove the ole mail server.  Now I'm finding impossible to build a new user or reset a password without SMTP support.

Thank you in advance.