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  66264   Tue Mar 24 10:42:25 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2.7.4Re: "Full" view formatting

Erik Iverson wrote:
I have a logbook I use to capture machine settings. There are many (~30) different attributes defined. I've defined the "Summary" view via "List display" in such a way that not all the attributes are displayed in the summary list, because there's no practical way to fit the 30 different attributes in 30 rows across the screen, and there's no need to have every attribute shown in the summary view. I would like to define something for the "Full" view that lets me put one (or more, but not all) attributes per line; much like the single-entry view does now, just with multiple entries. So a "Full" listing would look like

ID: 1
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

ID: 2
Attribute1: Value1
Attribute2: Value2
Attribute3: Value3
Text...

rather than
ID Attribute1 Attribute2 Attribute3
1 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
2 Value1 Value2 Value3
Text...
etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks as always for a wonderful piece of software!


This is not implemented, but I will consider it for a future version.
  66040   Mon Nov 10 19:40:43 2008 Entry Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduBug report 2.7.3-2109Show/Hide links are displayed but don't work if Show attachments = 0

If I add this statement to a logbook config file:

Show attachments = 0

When viewing and individual entry, attached images are not displayed, which is as intended, but the links Show/Hide and Show All/Hide All are still displayed although they do nothing when clicked except switch between Show and Hide. Clicking on an image opens it in a separate window.

Could you make show/hide and show/hide all work? This way, by default the images are not displayed, but the default could be overridden on a case by case basis as desired, and the images displayed inline in the same window with the entry. 

Thanks!

 

  66051   Mon Nov 17 11:06:29 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug report 2.7.3-2109Re: Show/Hide links are displayed but don't work if Show attachments = 0

 

Dennis Seitz wrote:

If I add this statement to a logbook config file:

Show attachments = 0

When viewing and individual entry, attached images are not displayed, which is as intended, but the links Show/Hide and Show All/Hide All are still displayed although they do nothing when clicked except switch between Show and Hide. Clicking on an image opens it in a separate window.

Could you make show/hide and show/hide all work? This way, by default the images are not displayed, but the default could be overridden on a case by case basis as desired, and the images displayed inline in the same window with the entry. 

 

Very good idea! I changed that in ELOG V2.7.5-2139. The fix will be contained in the next release.

  65842   Fri Apr 18 14:17:52 2008 Agree Yoshio ImaiBug reportLinux2.7.3-2104Re: Problems with elog client

Stefan Ritt wrote:
I fixed that in SVN revision 2103, please download and test it.


I just downloaded and tested it. It works!!

Thank you for all the work.

Yoshio
  65886   Mon May 19 06:14:04 2008 Question Grant Jeffcotegrant@jeffcote.orgQuestion 2.7.3-2104Conditional Attributes Boolean?
Hi Stefan,

After searching the manual and not finding (missing?) the answer is it possible to add conditional statements to a Boolean attribute? I would like a tick box to be able to trigger an event when submitted.

Many thx
  65905   Fri Jun 6 11:24:49 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion 2.7.3-2104Re: Conditional Attributes Boolean?

Grant Jeffcote wrote:
After searching the manual and not finding (missing?) the answer is it possible to add conditional statements to a Boolean attribute? I would like a tick box to be able to trigger an event when submitted.


Conditions are not possible with boolean attributes. You have to define the attribute as a list like

Attributes = ..., Flag, ...
Options Flag = Yes{0}, No{1}

{0} ...

{1} ...
  65921   Wed Jul 9 19:57:50 2008 Warning Yoshio ImaiBug reportLinux2.7.3-2104Error messages while creating thumbnails
Hi again!

I have recently noticed that elog often creates large accumulations of the following group of error messages in our syslog:
Jul  9 19:05:00 elogd[27009]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:00 elogd[27009]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:02 elogd[27009]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:02 elogd[27009]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27016]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27016]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:06 elogd[27016]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:06 elogd[27016]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied

I have further found out that these coincide with the generation of attachment thumbnails (i.e. every time a user displays an entry generated before the advent of ImageMagick support for the first time, and every time the preview pictures are scaled/rotated while editing an entry).

The PID-file is indeed owned by the root user and not elog, but is correctly cleaned up at termination of the elog server.
Jul  9 19:47:08 elogd[27335]: elogd server aborted.

Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: elogd 2.7.3 built Apr 18 2008, 14:08:31 
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: revision 2104
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: ImageMagick detected

Does this point at some sort of problem?


Another question concerning the thumbnails of multi-page PDF-files: would it make sense to restrict the thumbnail generation to the first page? Since this is the title page, which in most cases is the only relevant page (really reading the file from the thumbnails is usually not possible anyway), this could help keep the attachment display less crowded ...


Thanks for the work and continuing support!

Yoshio
  65922   Thu Jul 10 12:06:31 2008 Question Dougie Mooneydougie.mooney@selex-galileo.comQuestionWindows2.7.3-2104Synchronising between physically separate networks

Hi there. Just started recently set up the application and think its very usable and easily configured - great stuff

I'm looking to roll it out to the masses but have a slight logistical problem in that we work on 2 separate networks - NET1 with connection to the internet, and NET2 physically isolated from NET1 and the internet.

It would be desirable to allow users to add/update/delete logs from both NET1 and NET2 with periodic synchronisation.

I believe the mirroring facility is what should be used, and think the following setup and synchronisation steps may be workable:

Setup:

  • elog installed on node of NET1
  • elog installed on 2 nodes of NET2
  • elog server running on NET1 and node1 of NET2 both using a common elogd.cfg

Performing Synchronisation:

  1. Stop the server on NET1
  2. copy logbook directories from NET1 to node2 of NET2
  3. start server on node2 of NET2 using the -M option
  4. once above complete, copy logbook directories from node 2 NET2 to NET1
  5. Start the server on NET1

Am I on the right track?

Would very much appreciate your comments and advice on the above.

Cheers Dougie

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