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icon5.gif   Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Siegel on Fri Aug 9 12:40:23 2002 
Hello,

Is there a possibility to prevent elog to overwrite attribute values when 
editing an old message? The old values are overwriten with the preset 
options for that attribute. 
But sometimes you will preserve attribute text and /or options from the old 
message.

Thank you for your help. Regards,

Stefan
    icon2.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 9 12:50:58 2002 
> Is there a possibility to prevent elog to overwrite attribute values when 
> editing an old message? The old values are overwriten with the preset 
> options for that attribute. 
> But sometimes you will preserve attribute text and /or options from the old 
> message.

The option "Fixed attributes = ..." will do the job.
    icon2.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Siegel on Fri Aug 9 13:04:58 2002 
> > Is there a possibility to prevent elog to overwrite attribute values when 
> > editing an old message? The old values are overwriten with the preset 
> > options for that attribute. 
> > But sometimes you will preserve attribute text and /or options from the 
old 
> > message.
> 
> The option "Fixed attributes = ..." will do the job.

Ok, but is there a possibility to preserve the fields of the old message, but 
still be able to edit it. This would be a nice feature in the case of an entry 
with lots of attributes (set to something different then the preset values). 
After submiting the message you realize : one option was wrong and now you 
want to edit it without changing the other options again.
Is this possible?

Thank you and best regards,

Stefan
    icon5.gif   Re: Edit an existing message overwrites attributes with preset values, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 9 14:59:17 2002 
> Ok, but is there a possibility to preserve the fields of the old message, 
but 
> still be able to edit it. This would be a nice feature in the case of an 
entry 
> with lots of attributes (set to something different then the preset 
values). 
> After submiting the message you realize : one option was wrong and now you 
> want to edit it without changing the other options again.
> Is this possible?

Actually this is a good idea. After thinking a while, I wonder if anybody at 
all would like not to preserve the preset values. So if nobody complains, I 
will set the behaviour such that elog always preserves the entries if one 
edits an existing message.
icon5.gif   self-registration, posted by tony summerfelt on Fri Aug 9 21:10:20 2002 
i seem to be unable to find a clear explanation of how to enable self-registration in the docs.

just to be sure i grepped the doc directory, but the two references to it were in the changelog and the faq.

it could be just me but i'm not reading between the lines or connecting the various places in the docs to get it going :/
    icon2.gif   Re: self-registration, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sat Aug 10 13:00:26 2002 elogd.cfg
> i seem to be unable to find a clear explanation of how to enable self-
registration in the docs.
> 
> just to be sure i grepped the doc directory, but the two references to it 
were in the changelog and the faq.
> 
> it could be just me but i'm not reading between the lines or connecting the 
various places in the docs to get it going :/

Sorry, I haven't fully documented it yet, will do on Monday next week. For 
now, see the configuration file for this forum which is attached.
    icon2.gif   Re: self-registration, posted by tony summerfelt on Sun Aug 11 18:45:08 2002 
> Sorry, I haven't fully documented it yet, will do on Monday next week. For 
> now, see the configuration file for this forum which is attached.

that's ok. i just wanted to make sure that i hadn't missed something. i'm eventually switching over my entire dial up bbs, to my web page, with elog being the message system. self-registration was the last piece of the puzzle for me :)
icon4.gif   Error while trying to change password (elogd 2.1.0), posted by Stefan Siegel on Mon Aug 12 11:01:51 2002 
When logging in with a username and password; then trying to logout or 
change password one gets the following message:

Error: Parameter value too big. Please increase VALUE_SIZE and recompile 
elogd ; Please use your browser's back button to go back 

(up to now I have not yet tried to recompile - may be it works then)

Regards,

Stefan
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