PROJECT EDITING

All records are fully editable at all time. Adding a file or a sentence is always possible.
However, previous, unedited versions of pages are backed up in a digitally signed form to the backup folder to track the history of changes. The backup is protected with cryptographically strong digital signatures.


Editor main functions:

- editing text in existing project and note pages (including edits of links and text boxes)
- appending files
- inserting Images (JPEG, PNG, BMP etc)
- creating and inserting hand drawings
- digitally signing the data and checking the data authenticity


INSERTING FILES OR IMAGES IN PROJECTS AND NOTES

Fastest method

(1) Make EDIT MODE is not checked
(2) Select a text or an object in the ELN page, where the file or the image may belong. Note, this operation should only be performed with ELN primary pages and not with summary pages, month pages or year pages.
(3) DragDrop a file to the file pad or an image to the image pad.

Recommended method

(1) Make EDIT MODE is not checked
(2) Click +file^ or +image^ button. This will append File or Image word to the end of the main page.
(3) Select the "File" word or the "Image" word
(4) DragDrop that file onto appropriate blue panel.

This will first move the file into project folder (!) and then create a link to it on the ELN page. 


Moving files and images to a different position in an ELN page

(1) Check EDIT MODE
(2) Move any file link or image over the page with the mouse.
(3) Save edited page.

     
PAGE EDITOR

Navigate to an html page. Select "EDIT MODE" and type changes directly in the html page. 
Click "save" to save changes. 


If "save" option is not avaialble because "undo" is active

Checking "EDIT MODE" will re-activate save.


How to insert hand drawings

Press draw button to open drawing panel. Draw with a mouse pointer and click "paste" to append the sketch to the ELN page.


Changing colors and formatting

The layout and text formatting tools allow to make selected text bold, italic, change its color etc. EDIT MODE is not required for these operations to work. Select region of interest, apply change and save.
Additional editing options are available by clicking more label.

t-box

Adds text area to an ELN page.

Requires that some text is selected in an ELN page before the t-box button is clicked. If nothing is selected on the ELN page, t-box produces no output.


link selection

Opens shortcut editor to add or modify URL or local links. 
Links can be absolute or relative.
Links can be to local files or to internet web sites.

Text selection on an ELN page is required for this operation to work. If nothing is selected on the ELN page, produces no output.


Print    
 
This will show print preview and allow to print a page. You may chose whether to "Print background color and images" in the settings dialogue of the print preview.


link any two ELN pages!

To very easily hyperlink any two ELN pages, read the help (click "?") in the BOOKM panel.


SEARCH

When projects become large, finding necessary information becomes arduous. It is the same as sifting through a pile of notebooks that accumulated over years of work. The built-in search function finds pages or files that contain keywords of interest. Keyword search can be done inside files or, much quicker, inside file names in all subdirectories of the ELN's current address box.

Search function uses regular expressions. If you do not know what regex are, google has plenty of information. In short, regex allow searching for text patterns very flexibly. Here is one example. Searching for ".doc" will find files named "summary.doc", "mydocument.pdf", "old_documentary.avi" etc. This is because "." means "any symbol" in regex. To find all files with ".doc" extension, one needs to search for "\.doc" instead, where "\" is an escape character that forces regex to treat "." as simply a dot.


BOOKM

Bookmarks

It is possible to store locations of up to 8 ELN pages, local directories or any web sites. To bookmark current location, click 1-8 with right mouse button. To navigate to stored locations, left-click 1-8.