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Section: Logbook Admin
Task: Feature Requests
Currently, the bottom of a search results page includes the "Displaying reports X-Y of Z. Go to page Start 5 6 ... End" links. Conspicuously absent from the links are links for the Next and Previous pages of results. Navigating through the results therefore always requires more energy than should be needed, to identify the number of the current results page, and select the next number. If a Next link was provided, it would be much easier to scroll through search results.
Better yet, the subsequent results should just automatically show up at the bottom of the page when scrolling down. This can be achieved fairly simply with the jQuery jScroll plugin.
Ability to log out a user out and not have the previous users info saved, so I can log him out and log myself in without clearing cookies. This is not Jeff Garcia. Also, I'd like to be able to add captions to attached files.
Thomas tried to add a python script (with extension .py) to his LHO aLOG 3758, but was thwarted and needed to change the extension to .txt in order upload it. Please add this to the acceptable files.
I don't see why the log book should be rejecting any attachments based on extension at all. That doesn't make any sense. One should be able to attach anything they think is relevant to a report, regardless of file type. File name extensions aren't a particularly good way to determine a file type anyway.
I have added .py to LLO's logbook. This OSL software that we are using requires defining allowable attachment extensions and associating them with a not null mime type. I didn't write the code, or participate in the process that determined which software would be used.
Added at LHO as well.
One of the nice features of commercial search engines is that surrounding a phrase with double quotes forces the search to use the whole phrase as an exact string, i.e. "Optical Lever" returns only results that contain the whole phrase, not every entry with either "optical" or "lever." Is it possible to do this with our aLOGs?
In my bouncing between aLOGs, I've found that the colors for different Sections + Tasks are not symmetric between them. Any chance we could? (I'd specifically notices that the LogBook Admin Sections are RED in the LHO aLOG, and SEA GREEN in the LLO aLOG).
Image files have thumbnails, but PDFs do not. For multipage PDFs, the thumbnail could be just the first page.
This one is a no-brainer.
The emails of the log posts (L-mail) would be much more convenient if they actually just included the contents of the log post directly in the message. One could just read the posts in their mail without having to click through. So nice.
Furthermore, the emails subject lines should just be the title of the log post. That way you could see if the post is relevant to you without even having to open the mail.
Links to the posts could of course still be provided in the message to provide direct access to the post for viewing images, etc.
I like the following format I get from the old SEI Notebooks: [Subject] New ETF Seismic lab elog entry [Similar to what L-mail does already] [Body] A new ELOG entry has been submitted: Author : Daniel Clark [could be replaced by ligo-org email] Type : Data and Analysis [would be replaced by "Section"] Category : Sensors & Actuators [would be replaced by "Task"] Subject : SPI Temperature Allowance - Aluminum Table Logbook URL : http://ligo.phys.lsu.edu:8080/ETFseismic/1918
But this provides barely more information than is currently in the emails. A subject that is always the same is basically useless. The subject should definitely be the title of the log post. And the body can include the information you suggest, but it should also include the full body of the post as well.
Often, in our haste to write aLOGs, we may put up errant / incomplete information. After a re-read later, we may correct typos, add extra files / information, etc. Y'know, edit it. However, when these logs are edited, they send out L-mail as though they were new. For those of us that forget about the "preview" feature, my request is as follows: (1) If an entry is edited vs. newly created, the L-mail message should reflect that. Instead of "A new report has been made...," perhaps something like "A report has been edited..." (2) We should have the ability to suppress L-mail notification with the understanding that, like the DCC, this should be discouraged, and reserved only for minor changes (e.g. typographical). I've seen this ability in other logbooks, like The Seismic Group Notebook. On a separate request, but still involving L-mail (and maybe the "link" feature in general): it is often very useful to see not only the specific log entry that has been linked from L-mail, but the context around it. Is there anyway for an entry's link to take you to the full page of surrounding entries, in addition to just the linked entry? I've found that sometimes, when I get around to reading my L-mail, that the entry of interest has fallen off the "front page" of the log, so when I hit "home" to see the other log entries around it, I have to re-find the entry, through several more clicks.
Could .fig, .mat and .m be added to the supported (matlab scripts, data and figures) be added to the list of files which can be up loaded?
I have added .m, .mat, and .fig to the list of allowed attachment types. Please note that the graphics library that the aLOG uses to create thumbnails does not support .fig files, so it cannot yet display the .fig files. I have requested that LLO update their logbooks as well.
I often find myself bouncing between the LHO, LLO, and now SEI aLOGs. It would be nice to have links to other aLOGs be added to each of these respective (and any future) aLOGs. Maybe in the second row of header link buttons (Home, Search, Add Report, etc.) but justified to the right-hand-side, and have the button be the color of the other aLOG (LHO is Blue, LLO is Green, and SEI is Red).
