Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

Without path, the file must reside in the "scripts" subdirectory.

For the multi-line form, it depends how you want to format your elog entry. If you format in "plain", the simple line breaks are sufficient. If you format in HTML, your preset file must be in HTML as well, so a line break has to be a <br> tag. If you format in ELCode, a simple line break again would be ok. 

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

 Dear Soren,

Just use HTML (and call the file network.html to remember).

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just  one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

Hi Stefan,

When Moving entry (and replies) from one log book to another, is it possible to prevent elog from renumbering
the entries' ID number(s) ($@MID@$).  While it may not be good practice, we've referred to these numbers in
cross-referencing, and it all goes wrong when an entry is moved from an "Open" thread to a "Closed" thread (cf
your FAQ about marking of whole threads).

In the cases I'm thinking about, i.e. from main logbook to archive logbook(s), there would never be a clash of
ID number.

Thanks,

David Pilgram.

I have a logbook named "Centaur" (instrument name) for a problem log on an instrument and a logbook named "CentaurNewLot" for

a logbook (Database Like - ELOG format) where we would log reagent lot number changes for that instrument.

The problem is that when I name the logbooks, like I have, it screws up the formatting (List page) of the second log book.

If I rename the second logbook something totally unrelated to the first logbook my originally intended formatting returns.

Now I realized that it is not a problem in /etc/init.d, but deamon itself.

When I run the following command as a root, it didn't run

/mnt/wd500/jnj/products/elog/sbin/elogd -D -c /mnt/wd500/jnj/products/elog/elog/elogd.cfg

But, it runs when I did as a user.

I really don't understand this strange behavior.

Thanks,

You need:

Show text = 0

Enable Attachments = 0

to supress the text entry box and the attachment field.

Display search = ID, Type, Location, Status

to show only the attributs of interest in the list display (your attributes could be different)

Summary lines = 0

to supress the text in the list display. At the moment, this still shows the paperclip colum, but I want to fix this in the next version.

The normal situation is that elogd gets started by root under /etc/init.d/, then the configuration file contains "Usr = elog" and "Grp = elog", so after it has been started as root, the program falls back to the "elog" user, which only has restricted rights.