ElogACCELERATOR DIVISION ELECTRONIC LOGBOOK UPGRADE PRESENTATION

BASIC USERS

KYLE HAZELWOOD 19JUN2013

Why create a new Elog?

Take advantage of relational database features/benefits

Security and accessibility

Update the GUI

Ease of use

Expand the scope of the Elog

Old MCR Elog

Elog scope

One elog made from many.

Accelerator Division elog?

Categorizing entries…

MCR Elog

Machine Elogs

Other Elogs…

New Elog

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Elog design

PostgreSQL DB

Client

Filters

Servlets/JSP

Beans

Elog1/Elog2

Apache Tomcat

Accessing the Elog

Onsite – Read access by default Offsite – Fermi services login required

Elog entry format

Entries may have unlimited comments

Entries may be tagged with multiple logs, categories, users.

Entries may be tagged important

Files always appear at the end of the entry/comment

Files may have captions

Limited HTML formatting is permitted

Filtering the Elog:

Date Span

• Used to emulate the various ways machine groups and Operations viewed their elogs

• Default is none (rolling entries)

• Can be set via url

Filtering the Elog:

Refinement

• Used for logbook selection and refinement.

• Can refine by

• Log

• Category

• User

• Importance

• Default is none (viewing all logs and not refined)

• Can be set via url

Filtering the Elog:

Sorting

• Used to sort entries

• Currently only supports date sorting

• Date – New to old (Default)

• Date – Old to new (Legacy)

• Comments always appear sorted newest last

• Can be set via url

Filtering the Elog:

Limit

• Limits the amount of entries viewable at once

• Not applicable when entriy count returned is less than selected limit

• Default is 100 (Max 250)

• Can be set via url

Elog search

Quick Search – searches within current view Advanced search

Adding entries

• Must be logged in

• Must be an active user with log privileges

• Must select at minimum one log

• Entry must have text

• May additionally tag category, user, and importance

• Files may be added with captions

Adding comments

• Must be logged in

• Must be an active user with log privileges for the entry you wish to comment

• Comment must have text

• May additionally tag users

• Files may be added with captions

Editing entries and comments

• Must be logged in

• Must be author or entry or comment (Or a super admin)

• There is a time limit on editing entries and comments (Currently 12 hours after creation)

• May change anything in the entry or comment

• May tag the entry or comment as hidden

• Intended for redundant entries

• Record kept

Emailing entries

• Must be logged in

• Emails a link to an entry

In the works…

Entry to entry linking

New file upload plugin

User preferences

GUI improvements

New text editor

Shift indicator thread

More searching terms

Search lexeme highlighting

Remote program API

Auto refresh/scrolling refresh

Elog requests and help

Getting an account

Contact Kyle Hazelwood or any log admin

Requesting a new log

Only super admins have the ability to create new logs

Contact AD/Operations department head

Requesting a new category

Contact your department log admin

Reporting a bug, or requesting a feature

Please submit all bug reports and feature requests to Redmine