> 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.

I want to know if there were some way to insert a screen shot directly into the log book instead of going through the "save-attach" procedure. i.e. add some plug in button to do this under Linux?

Or, can I just make a plain log file "xxxx.log" and put it into the directory? Will that work?

Thanks

You cannot directly paste a screen shot into an elog entry. Use HoverSnap (Windows) or ksnapshot (linux) to produce directly an image file, then you need only two mouse clicks (browse and select file). There is also an Add-On for FireFox called "dragdropupload" which can be used for drag-and-drop a file into the attachment file selector. 

 I see. But what I want to do now is writing a script to make a elog entry, is that possible? I mean, I don't know if the log entry I generated could be recognized by elog.  e.g. the following text is generated by me, no through elog, is there a way to let them shown on elog?

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:45:21 -0500
Author: Anonymous
Author Email: $user_email
Category: Shift summary
Subject: test
Attachment: 081201_184113_bigcal_014.jpg
Encoding: HTML
========================================
test
 

 For what you need you can use the "elog" utility, as described in https://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html at the bottom. Using the "-f" option you can add attachments there.

 Got it! This is exactly what I need, thanks a lot!

What I would like to do is:

If attribute "A" and attribute  "B" - send email to person #1

If attribute "A" and attribute  "C" - send email to person #2

(I apologize if this in the documentation. I have looked at the "Email" section and have either missed it or don't understand it. Thank you for the help)

This is not implemented, you only can test on a single attribute. There might be a possibility with conditional attributes, but I have never tried this out.