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icon5.gif   Moving a logbook from one installation to another, posted by Val Schmidt on Mon Dec 17 02:17:20 2007 

I've attempted to move a logbook from an old elog installation to a new one on another system. The version of elog is the same (2.6.1) in both. Both systems have the same name and the logbooks are and installation are going in the same place. So all paths are identical. Also, for the new installation, I've simply recompiled the same sources used to install the original one. The only difference is an upgrade in the OS.
 
I've rsync'd the directory and contents from the old installation to the logbooks/ directory for the new one. I then over-wrote the standard config file with the new one. I then started elogd in the new place.
 
What I find is 
 
a) The default entry from the demo logbook is inserted into my logbook. This I can live with but it was unexpected.
b) The dates for all my entries as shown in my browser have years starting in 1946, rather than 2006. This is particularly odd since all of the actual log files have the correct dates. 
c) The numbering of entries has been reset to 1.
 
 
Can anyone explain what I've done to mucky this up and how to fix it?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Val
 

icon5.gif   Unknown toolbar item 'ShowBlocks', posted by Uwe on Wed Jan 9 21:12:20 2008 error.GIF

Hello,

I just made an update from version V2.7.0-1964 to V2.7.0-1985 and I am receiving now the error message Unknown toolbar item 'ShowBlocks' whenever creating or editing an entry.  When clicking onto Ok, everything seems to work fine. Can you help please? Error message occurs in Internet Explorer and also in Firefox.

Addition: The Show Blocks Symbol is missing

Thanks!

Uwe

icon5.gif   Configuration of HTML editor, posted by Kristján Jónsson on Thu Jan 10 18:30:26 2008 

Do I have to do any extra configuration in elog to enable the FCKeditor.

What I get with V2.7.0-1954 is that the main message entry field looks and behaves identically whether I set the encoding to HTML or plain (except the width and height of the field changes).

ELCode works as expected.  Message files saved with the encoding set to HTML have a line "Encoding: HTML", but no HTML markup.  Those saved with encoding set to plain have the line "Encoding: plain", but are otherwise identical.

I have the scripts directory as set up by "make install" containing the elcode.js file and the fckeditor subdirectory.  All are world readable.

Any hints about what could be the problem?

Thanks

Kristján

 

icon5.gif   Audit Trail?, posted by Javier A. Ortiz on Fri Jan 18 13:57:31 2008 

First thanks for the great software! My only question would be how to implement audit trail feature. I know you can control who edits and that's great but in regulated environments like mine there's a requirement that the original record, the one edited, is not deleted or overwritten. If not possible right now the only thing I could think of is a mechanism, maybe possible thru configuration, that when the record is edited it is copied to an audit trail logbook (i.e. if logbook name is 'test' it's audit logbook will be named 'test-audit' which is read only) and have a link to the audit trail of the record (show only changes of the current record).

 

I'm more than aware that it's possible thru configuration but I'm short on that dept. Any help/idea?

 

Thanks in advance!

icon5.gif   80 column Message width., posted by Carl Shirey on Mon Jan 21 15:03:48 2008 

 

First thing we have been using the Elog for 2 yr for a shift carryover and it has works out great.

Now for the problem I have. I heave the message width set to 80.  It works for plain Encoding but it does not work for HTML or ELCode. The text does not wrap around when viewing using Explorer or Fire Fox or printing out the Elog.  Is this a problem or do I need to modify the Config file?

Thanks

icon5.gif   Converting dates from an Excel import into ELOG, posted by Fergus Lynch on Thu Jan 24 13:50:10 2008 

Hi,

I'm importing an Excel spreadsheet into ELOG through CSV format.  All working fine apart from dates.

Dates are exporting from Excel in the format "day/month/year" so 1st January 2008 is exported as 01/01/2008 in the CSV.

However all dates are displayed in ELOG as "01/01/1970" regardless of the field content, and looking at the raw ELOG data file dates are displayed as numeric's - so for example 01/01/2008 is "1199188800"

Can you tell me how dates are computed/stored in ELOG so that I can do the necessary conversion.

Many Thanks

Fergus

icon5.gif   Possible to sort attribute chronologically? , posted by Dennis Seitz on Tue Jan 29 04:25:11 2008 
Hi,

We've defined a "LastEdit" attribute for some of our logs so that we can indicate that an entry has been revised, and when that was done. 

From our config:

Attributes =  Last Edit, etc etc
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Preset Last Edit =$date
Locked Attributes = Last Edit
Subst on edit Last Edit = $date

This works fine, but when we sort the LastEdit column, the dates are sorted alphabetically. Is there a way to tell Elog to treat this particular attribute 
as a date when sorting?
icon5.gif   Cross references within ELOG, posted by Richard Hardwick on Wed Jan 30 10:28:50 2008 

How can I make a cross reference from one entry to another entry in the same ELOG logbook?

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