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I have created a javascript to be used as a browser link that allows a one
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step cut and paste from a web browser into a elog logbook.
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The intended application is allow a user to do a text selection in a web
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browser, then click on a bookmark that automagically pastes the selected
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text, the current browser page url, and the current browser page title into
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a pre-defined elog logbook. I do some research where I would like to save
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some text from a webpage, but also have a record of where the webpage came
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from. However, you should find that you can extend this script in a varity
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of ways for your own application.
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The script is a simple one: it uses javascript in a saved bookmark to get
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your selected text, title, and url, and then creates a new browser window
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with a elog form, and print the document variables into the form, and then
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submits the form to elog. The key advantage to this approach is that you
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can use the "post" command, rather than "get", to submit to the text section
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of an elog logbook. The only way I found now to submit to elog via a
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bookmark is using the "get" command, and it doesn't allow entry of the
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"text" field, only attribute fields.
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The second major advantage to using POST is that you can submit a much
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large quanity of information ; However, some checking on this leads me to
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believe that the limit is browser and server depended, so YMMV. However, a
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great discussion on the limits of browsers can be found here:
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http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/browsers.html .
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One of the major limits is that IE6.0 browsers have a maxium of 508 bytes
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per bookmark - This book runs over 800 bytes, so I suspect tha IE6+ will
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not allow it. I tested the link with Mozilla and Firebird 0.7.
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This script will need to edited for you to use with your elog logbook.
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The script should be fairly self-explainitory, if you are used to html
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forms and have some exposure to javascript.
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You will need to modifiy the following fields:
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1) in form action = http://ELOG_URL/LOGBOOK/?cmd=New
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change the link to point to your specific logbook to be used for entry.
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2) the attribute fields need match up with the ones in your logbook.
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The ones listed in the template are Author, Email, Title, and URL.
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If you have fixed fields (like Author and Email), then you can
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predefine these fields as shown.
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I have the page title used as the entry for Title, and the page url is
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use as the URL attribute.
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Finally, I have the text selection used as the entry for the Text field.
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You can add additional fields by creating a new <input ...> segment
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in the script. For those more clever than me, you can concatinate the
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title, url and selection to paste into the Text area as well.
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3) once you have a edited version of the script (make sure you keep it as a
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single line), you can then create a new bookmark in your browser, and then
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paste the script into the properties->location field (for Mozilla/Firebird)
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or the properties->url field (IE). Give it a good name like "post to elog"
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4) once saved, you can then go a web page, select some text, and then go to
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your bookmarks and click on the bookmark. It should then create a new
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window in elog with a completed logbook entry.
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some notes:
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1) again, this may not work on IE6+ browsers due to M$ limitations.
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2) You may have to be logged in already to elog for this work - I have not
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tested the interaction using a password protected elog
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3) You can only post to a single elog logbook - You'll need to have
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multiple bookmarks for multiple logbooks.
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-- Fred Hooper <fhooper@sushisoft.com>
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