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

> 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

Hm, looking through the source, there are many many places where PDF files are treated differently than strictly image filetypes (PNG, etc.). This makes sense in the context of multi-page documents. 

Still, I like using PDFs for vector plots... I suppose I should also confess to the following modification I've made to my ELOG for treating PDFs like images in drag-and-drop uploading. 

--- a/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/dndfiles/plugin.js
+++ b/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/dndfiles/plugin.js
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ CKEDITOR.plugins.add( 'dndfiles', {
                                                                return;

                                                        if(src.indexOf(".png") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".jpg") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".jpeg") >= 0
-                           || src.indexOf(".gif") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".svg") >= 0) { // This is an image
+                           || src.indexOf(".gif") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".svg") >= 0 || src.indexOf(".pdf") >= 0) { // This is an image
                                                                html += '<a href = ' + src + '><img src = "' + thumb + '">' + '</a>';
                                                        } else {        // this is not an image
                                                                // Server appends 14 characters in front of the name so we should remove them

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

> > 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.

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.

Hi Stephan

The error message I get is "Error: Command Submit not allowed". I dont know if this might be an issue but it says Response Recieved: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in the first line of the servers response

This indicates that the username/password is not correct. Can you log in to that logbook in your browser with the username "John" and password "Blue"?