The elog client binary does not work with webserver authentication.  One fix would be to support both webserver and kerberos authentication (authentication = webserver, kerberos), similar to how you currently support 
"authentication = kerberos, file".

A more general discussion of the elog client binary with webserver authentication can be found at https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/68318 .

Many thanks,
Devin

Is it possible to submit entries using the elog client binary when the server is configured with webserver authentication (when the server requires the X-Forwarded-User header)?  One option would be if the server could support both webserver and kerberos (or even file) authentication, but neither 
"Authentication = Webserver, Kerberos" nor "Authentication = Webserver, File" seem to work.

In addition to using the elog binary to talk to the elog server directly, we've unsuccessfully tried using curl to post data to the apache server url (URL in elogd.cfg).  We can read entries using curl, but haven't yet been able to submit entries.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Devin

Hello,

We have accumulated some duplicate 'types' in one of our logbooks.  Is it possible to merge them?

Thanks,

John

I'm not sure I understand your question correctly.

If you want to remove options from an extendable option attribute, then you can just edit the logbook configuration file.

I seem to be having some trouble with Find when using conditional attributes.

when I change the primary attribute in the find field, the corrispnding secondary attribute dosn't refresh properly with the list of values.

I am able to use the conditional options as expected when creating a new logbook.

I am using version ELOG V3.1.1-0767eb0 running on debian wheezey (compiled from sid sources)

This may be due to how I have my config file setup

Example:

Attributes = A, B
Options B = Please Select A
Options A = One{1}, Two{2}
{1} Options B = 1, 2,
{2} Options B = 3, 4,
 

Uppon closer inspection, removing the option to preset the secondary attribute as a Option list dosn't do anything for the find page.

This:

Attributes = A, B
Options A = One{1}, Two{2}
{1} Options B = 1, 2
{2} Options B = 3, 4

Still fails to set attribute B to a option list on  the find page. 

Hello,

What is the procedure to delete a logbook (incl. attachments)?

Steve

Deleting a logbook in the config page (via "Delete this logbook") only removes the logbook defiition from the config file. To really erase all information you have to go to the file system and delete the whole directory belonging to that logbook. You have one subdirectory per year, containing all logobok entries and also attachments, so make sure you do a recursiver directory removal.

Stefan

Stefan,

Thank you that is exactly what I needed to know.

Steve

We use ELOG for our accelerator operation logbooks. As part of the shift handover every shift prints out all
entries made during the shift and files the printouts. If one entry in the shift was plain text without
appropriate linebreaks (like this one), then this screws up the printout: the whole window is scaled to the width
of this line and either the printout is cut off at the right side, or the whole content is scaled down to very
tiny scale, which makes it unreadable.

Is there a way to enforce line breaks in plain text entries?

> We use ELOG for our accelerator operation logbooks. As part of the shift handover every shift prints out all
> entries made during the shift and files the printouts. If one entry in the shift was plain text without
> appropriate linebreaks (like this one), then this screws up the printout: the whole window is scaled to the
> width of this line and either the printout is cut off at the right side, or the whole content is scaled down to
> very tiny scale, which makes it unreadable.
> 
> Is there a way to enforce line breaks in plain text entries?

Obviously there is: this logbook does add line breaks?!?

Maybe it is only a problem with entries made by the "elog" command?
I'll find it out and re-post.

Cheers
Andreas

> > We use ELOG for our accelerator operation logbooks. As part of the shift handover every shift prints out all
> > entries made during the shift and files the printouts. If one entry in the shift was plain text without
> > appropriate linebreaks (like this one), then this screws up the printout: the whole window is scaled to the
> > width of this line and either the printout is cut off at the right side, or the whole content is scaled down to
> > very tiny scale, which makes it unreadable.
> > 
> > Is there a way to enforce line breaks in plain text entries?
> 
> Obviously there is: this logbook does add line breaks?!?
> 
> Maybe it is only a problem with entries made by the "elog" command?
> I'll find it out and re-post.
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas

Okay, I found two ways to add very long lines:
- if the very long line does not contain a space then this will screw the printout.
- if the line has been added as plain text using the elog command, there will be no line breaks added.

It would be nice if the elog command would have an option to break lines to a maximum line length.
But for the moment I'll just modify the applications that make use of the elog command.

> > We use ELOG for our accelerator operation logbooks. As part of the shift handover every shift prints out all
> > entries made during the shift and files the printouts. If one entry in the shift was plain text without
> > appropriate linebreaks (like this one), then this screws up the printout: the whole window is scaled to the
> > width of this line and either the printout is cut off at the right side, or the whole content is scaled down to
> > very tiny scale, which makes it unreadable.
> > 
> > Is there a way to enforce line breaks in plain text entries?
> 
> Obviously there is: this logbook does add line breaks?!?
> 
> Maybe it is only a problem with entries made by the "elog" command?
> I'll find it out and re-post.
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas

Yepp, this is a (missing) feature of the elog command. Can you pre-process your messages outside of it, or do I have to add code to elog to do that?

Stefan

Is it possible to use wget to log into elog and export all of a logbook's data into a CSV file?

I can accomplish this perfectly when authentication IS NOT required by using:  wget --no-check-certificate -O e:\export.csv http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1

However, I cannot accomplish it when authentication IS required by using:  wget --no-check-certificate -O e:\export.csv "http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1&uname=agrant&upassword=skipper"

The latter appears to show that I've logged in, but the export file only contains a bunch of HTML tags, not the actual data as in the former.

How should I construct the wget command?

UPDATE:

After days of head banging and trying different syntax combinations, I finally stumbled on my own answer. It involved some syntax adjustments, and then splitting the task into these two consecutive operations:

      1. wget --no-check-certificate --cookies=on --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies -O e:\export1.csv "http://localhost:8080/demo/?uname=agrant&upassword=skipper"

      2. wget --no-check-certificate --cookies=on --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies -O e:\export2.csv http://localhost:8080/demo/?mode=CSV1

All is working fine now.

I'm trying to send an email based on an attribute, in other words, a lookup and not $user_email of the author.

For instance, if I set a an attribute "Assignee" with a valid user full name (i.e. John Smith), I'd like to look up John Smith's 
email address from the password file and send him an email. I can't seem to find it something like that in the docs, I can write 
a script to do that, but was looking for a less cumbersom way of doing it. Thanks in advance.

> I'm trying to send an email based on an attribute, in other words, a lookup and not $user_email of the author.
> 
> For instance, if I set a an attribute "Assignee" with a valid user full name (i.e. John Smith), I'd like to look up John Smith's 
> email address from the password file and send him an email. I can't seem to find it something like that in the docs, I can write 
> a script to do that, but was looking for a less cumbersom way of doing it. Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately such a feature is not implemented in the current version.

Stefan