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  66725   Sun Feb 28 07:25:10 2010 Reply Capt. Ben Smithben@maperl.comQuestionAll2280Re: Single Button Entry

Geoff Ellis wrote:

For our application we have a lot of very common events we would like to log.  It would be preferable that for certain events/entries we could setup a single button / quick entry method.  Is there away to accomplish this?

 This would be of value for me as well. I'm trying to develop a event log for a research ship. Thanks. -ben

  66664   Mon Jan 11 09:55:52 2010 Question Ben Weynben.weyn@vanderlande.comQuestionWindows2.7.7-2246Each day new logbookfile

I have installed Elog in a Windows-environment. It's working fine, but i get a new logbookfile each day. Is it possible to have all entries in 1 logbookfile?

  68029   Wed Jun 24 15:18:30 2015 Warning Ben Shepherdben.shepherd@stfc.ac.ukBug reportLinux3.1.0-2411f95CKEditor won't load under IE Compatibility Mode

I just upgraded to 3.1.0 after many years using 2.9.2. Our eLogs are absolutely crucial for the operation of our accelerators, so first of all I'd like to say: thanks a lot for everything you've done! It's a rock-solid application that works really well.

The issue I'm having is a minor one. Some of our users are using Internet Explorer 11, which has a Compatibility Mode option that is enabled by default for intranet sites (of which our eLog is one). This mode emulates IE7, and this causes the CKEditor rich text box to fail to load. I can tell our users to disable the CM setting on their browsers, but it may be that a simple server-side fix is possible as well.

It would be nice if the eLog pages could have a <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> tag, so that it displays nicely on smaller screens. I've been adding this myself in some Javascript code (see elogHelper.js on the above-linked website), but it doesn't appear on every page (the logbook selection page, for instance). I also made some modifications to the CSS so that the list display collapses down when the browser window is very narrow.

The new autosave functionality is really good. I hacked something together to do this for our log a while ago, but it's nice that it's inbuilt now.

Thanks again!

Ben

 

  Draft   Thu Jun 25 14:55:16 2015 Reply Ben Shepherdben.shepherd@stfc.ac.ukBug reportLinux3.1.0-2411f95Re: CKEditor won't load under IE Compatibility Mode

The viewport thing and the IE7 mode thing are separate issues.

OK, maybe it's a CKEditor thing then. I thought it might be. It seems pretty stupid that the default setting in IE is to emulate an older browser - although I guess a lot of people have very outdated intranet sites. Anyway, we have a fix here so I don't think you need to do anything. Just thought you might want to know.

The viewport tag issue - see attachments. The first two are the log selection page and the list page, both without the viewport tag. Obviously you can zoom in, but this is how they appear by default, as (apparently) Chrome tries to render the whole page width. The third one is how the list page appears when the viewport tag is added, and the fourth is with my custom CSS to put the columns on separate lines. It's probably very bad CSS, so I'm certain that it's not robust or cross-platform, but it works for me :)

/* make things look a bit nicer on smaller screens */
@media (max-width: 700px) {
	table.listframe td, table.listframe th {
		display: none;
	}

	/* show id, date, personnel, summary in separate lines */
	table.listframe td:nth-of-type(-n+2), table.listframe td:nth-of-type(4), table.listframe td:nth-last-of-type(2) {
		display: block;
		border: 0px;
	}
}
Stefan Ritt wrote:

I don't get your point. If you add the meta tag wiht the viewport, then the IE7 mode will load the CKEditor? The CKEditor home page says that IE7 is not supported any more, so I wonder if this simple tag might help. Can you turn off the compatibility mode on a per-URL basis?

If I try on my smatphone, the display is correct, so why you need the viewport tag? Can you shouw me examples?

If you have nice CSS features which are helpful for everybody, please send them to me and I can include it in the distribution, but only after you convince me that it works (almost) everywhere.

Best,
Stefan

Ben Shepherd wrote:

I just upgraded to 3.1.0 after many years using 2.9.2. Our eLogs are absolutely crucial for the operation of our accelerators, so first of all I'd like to say: thanks a lot for everything you've done! It's a rock-solid application that works really well.

The issue I'm having is a minor one. Some of our users are using Internet Explorer 11, which has a Compatibility Mode option that is enabled by default for intranet sites (of which our eLog is one). This mode emulates IE7, and this causes the CKEditor rich text box to fail to load. I can tell our users to disable the CM setting on their browsers, but it may be that a simple server-side fix is possible as well.

It would be nice if the eLog pages could have a <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> tag, so that it displays nicely on smaller screens. I've been adding this myself in some Javascript code (see elogHelper.js on the above-linked website), but it doesn't appear on every page (the logbook selection page, for instance). I also made some modifications to the CSS so that the list display collapses down when the browser window is very narrow.

The new autosave functionality is really good. I hacked something together to do this for our log a while ago, but it's nice that it's inbuilt now.

Thanks again!

Ben

 

 

 

  68035   Thu Jun 25 15:16:51 2015 Reply Ben Shepherdben.shepherd@stfc.ac.ukBug reportLinux3.1.0-2411f95Re: CKEditor won't load under IE Compatibility Mode

The viewport thing and the IE7 mode thing are separate issues.

OK, maybe it's a CKEditor thing then. I thought it might be. It seems pretty stupid that the default setting in IE is to emulate an older browser - although I guess a lot of people have very outdated intranet sites. Anyway, we have a fix here so I don't think you need to do anything. Just thought you might want to know.

The viewport tag issue - see attachments. The first two are the log selection page and the list page, both without the viewport tag. Obviously you can zoom in, but this is how they appear by default, as (apparently) Chrome tries to render the whole page width. The third one is how the list page appears when the viewport tag is added, and the fourth is with my custom CSS to put the columns on separate lines. It's probably very bad CSS, so I'm certain that it's not robust or cross-platform, but it works for me :)

/* make things look a bit nicer on smaller screens */
@media (max-width: 700px) {
	table.listframe td, table.listframe th {
		display: none;
	}

	/* show id, date, personnel, summary in separate lines */
	table.listframe td:nth-of-type(-n+2), table.listframe td:nth-of-type(4), table.listframe td:nth-last-of-type(2) {
		display: block;
		border: 0px;
	}
}
Stefan Ritt wrote:

I don't get your point. If you add the meta tag wiht the viewport, then the IE7 mode will load the CKEditor? The CKEditor home page says that IE7 is not supported any more, so I wonder if this simple tag might help. Can you turn off the compatibility mode on a per-URL basis?

If I try on my smatphone, the display is correct, so why you need the viewport tag? Can you shouw me examples?

If you have nice CSS features which are helpful for everybody, please send them to me and I can include it in the distribution, but only after you convince me that it works (almost) everywhere.

Best,
Stefan

Ben Shepherd wrote:

I just upgraded to 3.1.0 after many years using 2.9.2. Our eLogs are absolutely crucial for the operation of our accelerators, so first of all I'd like to say: thanks a lot for everything you've done! It's a rock-solid application that works really well.

The issue I'm having is a minor one. Some of our users are using Internet Explorer 11, which has a Compatibility Mode option that is enabled by default for intranet sites (of which our eLog is one). This mode emulates IE7, and this causes the CKEditor rich text box to fail to load. I can tell our users to disable the CM setting on their browsers, but it may be that a simple server-side fix is possible as well.

It would be nice if the eLog pages could have a <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> tag, so that it displays nicely on smaller screens. I've been adding this myself in some Javascript code (see elogHelper.js on the above-linked website), but it doesn't appear on every page (the logbook selection page, for instance). I also made some modifications to the CSS so that the list display collapses down when the browser window is very narrow.

The new autosave functionality is really good. I hacked something together to do this for our log a while ago, but it's nice that it's inbuilt now.

Thanks again!

Ben

 

 

 

  68688   Wed Sep 20 16:34:18 2017 Question Ben Shepherdben.shepherd@stfc.ac.ukRequestLinux3.1.0-2411f95Email fields - accept semicolons too

My elog has a field for entering a list of email addresses, which goes into the "Email All" attribute. They need to be comma-separated, and an error is thrown if semicolons are used instead. Would it be possible to automatically change semicolons into commas before attempting to send the mail via SMTP? Neither character is allowed in email addresses so it shouldn't break anything to just do that silently. Thanks!

  68916   Thu Mar 21 16:14:00 2019 Question Ben Loerben.loer@pnnl.govQuestionLinux3.1.3elog.css and lock.png fail to load with top groups

As the title says, we have our elog running behind an Apache proxy that is also providing authentication. We also have top groups enabled.  The first time a user views a top group page with a fresh browser cache, the index is delivered, but requests for elog.css and lock.png are returned with http 302 with location set to the elog root.  (I.e., if the server is proxied under server.example.com/logs,  the first request for server.example.com/logs/TopGroup1/elog.css returns a 302 with location set to server.example.com/logs// ). 

Any subsequent visits return the files fine. The attached screenshot shows the network requests in chrome. 

Is this a proxy configuration issue, something we've set wrong in elog, ??

 

  68927   Thu Apr 11 20:31:55 2019 Warning Ben Loerben.loer@pnnl.govBug reportLinux3.1.3Can't subscribe email to logbooks in different top groups

We're running elogd behind an apache proxy server, with Authentication = Webserver. We have top groups configured, but a single shared password file.

If a user is looking at a particular logbook and goes to the Config link, they are presented with a list of checkboxes for email subscription to logbooks in that top group.  Clicking "Save" will remove all email subscriptions from all other top groups.

Is there a workaround to this issue?

EDIT: Manually adding an entry for different logbooks in the password file gets clobbered the next time the user logs in.

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