> I noticed the site has been updated as far as the documentation for 2.3.1, 
> however the latest version in the downloads section is 2.3.0, any other 
> places where I can get 2.3.1
> 
> Cheers

Patience, patience! 2.3.1 is currently kind of in "beta" version, but will be 
released this week. Not that you can always get the latest snapshot from the 
CVS tree at

http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src/elogd.c

- Stefan

I noticed the site has been updated as far as the documentation for 2.3.1, 
however the latest version in the downloads section is 2.3.0, any other 
places where I can get 2.3.1

Cheers

> When will you have 2.3.1 out? I just upgraded to 2.3.0 and would like to 
see
> the links in my summary view. If it is going to be out soon I will wait
> instead of compiling from source.

2.3.1 will come out next week, since this week I'm at home. But you always 
can get the sources from CVS (see below).

> > The modification will come in 2.3.1, or you can get the source code from 
CVS 
> > under 
> > 
> > http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src/elogd.c
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/themes/default/default.css

Stefan,

When will you have 2.3.1 out? I just upgraded to 2.3.0 and would like to see
the links in my summary view. If it is going to be out soon I will wait
instead of compiling from source.

Thanks for great software,
k.

> > Would be nice if you can specify which columns data has links as a flag or 
> > setting of some sorts, as opposed to either the first or all, but given a 
> > choice I would want the first column to be the linkable one 
> 
> Well, I decided to make all entries in a table a link, to be consistent with 
> the threaded display. But I changed the style such that they look like 
> before, but are actually links. This way it cannot hurt (like having too 
> much underlined text). The style can be changed via classes ".list1" 
> and ".list2" in the style sheet.
> 
> The modification will come in 2.3.1, or you can get the source code from CVS 
> under 
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src/elogd.c
> 
> and
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/themes/default/default.css
> 
> > > > Problem 2 - no matter what i try in the config file i cannot get elogd 
> to 
> > > > use stylesheets ive tried specifying and even editing and removing the 
> > > > default.css style sheet i downloaded but it just seems to ignore its 
> > there.
> > 
> > I resolved this problem, many thanks for your help
> 
> What happened. If you tell your initial problems, I can maybe put something 
> into the docs so that others won't have it...
> 
> - Stefan

> When you do a find in elog, records per page (some crazy large number - for 
> your forum logbook, display 57 entries seem to cause the problem, then 
> select last year (1 years worth of logs),(don't select printable)
> 
> the results appear way off the screen (the message body looks fine, but the 
> title, etc extend way off the screen).
> 
> Printable doesn't have this problem.

I could not reproduce this problem. Can you send me the exact URL (the 
address with all the parameters from your browser's address bar like 
http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Forum/?npp=57...) and tell me exactly under 
which browser this happens?

> > > Can you consider implementing the following additions to the 
functionality
> > > 
> > > 1) Subt on edit <attribute> = xyz 
> > > 
> > > This would be fantastic for implementing version control so you can see 
> > who 
> > > has edited a posted or a db entry.
> > 
> > Can you give me an example of how you would use that?
> 
> -----
> 
> Lets say you are storing configuration information relating to a customers 
> solution, you need the ability to track who has made what changes to the 
> config information stored in the log book so you can backtrack who changed 
> what and when, for example
> 
> If you have a field name called Last Edited by this field is locked and not 
> editable using the Lock attributes flag, but if you had Subt on edit 
> everytime that entry is updated it places your login name into this field 
and 
> therefore stamps it to say you have edited it, as the field isnt free txt 
it 
> cant be spoofed as the $long_name comes from your login details.

Ok, I implemented "Subst on edit", it will be contained in Version 2.3.1 
which is supposed to come out next week.

- Stefan

> > Can you consider implementing the following additions to the functionality
> > 
> > 1) Subt on edit <attribute> = xyz 
> > 
> > This would be fantastic for implementing version control so you can see 
> who 
> > has edited a posted or a db entry.
> 
> Can you give me an example of how you would use that?

-----

Lets say you are storing configuration information relating to a customers 
solution, you need the ability to track who has made what changes to the 
config information stored in the log book so you can backtrack who changed 
what and when, for example

If you have a field name called Last Edited by this field is locked and not 
editable using the Lock attributes flag, but if you had Subt on edit 
everytime that entry is updated it places your login name into this field and 
therefore stamps it to say you have edited it, as the field isnt free txt it 
cant be spoofed as the $long_name comes from your login details.

-----
>  
> > 2) Have a SORT fieldname flag so you can decide which column to sort 
> things 
> > by on a display listing in conjunction to the display flags, it current 
> > defaults to the # column and I find i am directly linking to a sorted 
> > display
> 
> Sorting is not done by the "#" column but by the sequence when messages 
have 
> been entered. You can sort the table differently by clicking on the table 
> titles (twice for reverse sort). To sort by default on a column, for 
example 
> sort by the author, you can add
> 
> Start page = ?sort=author
> 
> into elogd.cfg which does the job.
----
Excellent I didnt know what Ill try that tomorrow

----

 

> Can you consider implementing the following additions to the functionality
> 
> 1) Subt on edit <attribute> = xyz 
> 
> This would be fantastic for implementing version control so you can see 
who 
> has edited a posted or a db entry.

Can you give me an example of how you would use that?
 
> 2) Have a SORT fieldname flag so you can decide which column to sort 
things 
> by on a display listing in conjunction to the display flags, it current 
> defaults to the # column and I find i am directly linking to a sorted 
> display

Sorting is not done by the "#" column but by the sequence when messages have 
been entered. You can sort the table differently by clicking on the table 
titles (twice for reverse sort). To sort by default on a column, for example 
sort by the author, you can add

Start page = ?sort=author

into elogd.cfg which does the job.

> 3) Have the elogd.conf track actual log entries people have changed 
> detailing date and time etc.

Revision management is not forseen by the structure of the ELOG database. 
What you can do is if you edit a message you check "Resubmit as new entry", 
then you keep a copy of the old version. 

> 4) Ability to export contents of the log books to files on disk for backup 
> purposes as all data is contained within a single log file which causes 
> problem for command line searches.

Well, you have already all log book files on disk in a simple format:

YYMMDDa.log

(Year/Month/Day) which you can easily backup. By a mask like 02*a.log you 
can backup all data from 2002 and so on. The idea of having separate log 
files for each day is to have this possibility to simply backup various date 
intervals. 

What kind of command line searches are you interested in?

- Stefan