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[edit] Introduction

We are (slowly) moving to the use of electronic resources to store ALL relevant documentation pertinent to gamma-ray experiments. This includes TIGRESS. All run information is to be stored in the TIGRESS e-log.

If you insist on keeping written notes separately, please be a good citizen. Scan your log book and attach it to an e-log entry for the rest of us.

DON'T USE THE MIDAS E-LOG! Chris uses this for his own personal records.

[edit] Making an entry

[edit] Through a web page

It's actually pretty easy. Just go to the TIGRESS Experimental Facility E-Log page. You can also access this through the New E-Log link on the SECOND line of the main status page.

[edit] Screen or Window Capture

You may also add a screen or window capture directly to the e-log, if you are logged in as user tigress at one of our standard consoles.

Look for a camera icon on the taskbar of the display. Click on it. Then move your mouse over a window you'd like to capture. The mouse icon should change to a cross-hair. Click on the window. Then, when you go to the e-log page, there will be a new entry with the captured window. Edit that entry and add any descriptive text needed to explain why you took the snapshot and what future readers should get out of it.

To capture the whole screen, just click on the background.

[edit] At the end of a run

An end-of-run script automatically writes useful end-of-run information to a new e-log entry. Look for "Otto" as the author. WARNING! This end-of-run script (aparently) doesn't work with automatically restarted runs! I don't like auto-restarts anyway.

[edit] By a command-line client

You can also install a command line client to write a new entry. The screen capture and end-of-run functionality is implemented using this command line, so if you want to find an example of how to use it (and know a little bit about perl), check out /home/tigress/tigcol2/scripts/snaplog.pl and at_stop_run.pl . Documentation for this can be found at the main e-log source site at PSI.