<p>Please do NOT use the "Edit this page" capability to edit previous logbooks. The HTML format is not robust enough
(to be honest all this logbook stuff is a bit of a kludge). See the link above "<ahref="computing/logbooks-parsing.html">Importing</a>" as any mistake will crash the import parser.
Historic logbooks should only be edited by an expert, and the import process should be tested offline before the edited logbook is uploaded to the server.
<p>The logbook is the place where we record the rigging of caves as we discover them. You will manually copy the notes you made underground into the logbook.
<p>Writing up this and the final rigging guide is an important part of the Expo cave exploration process and is documented in <ahref="survey/newrig.html">a specific "rigging" section</a> the survey handbook.
<b>type the text of your logbook trip report</b> instead of writing it by hand - see <ahref="#type">below</a>. But still do lots of drawings in the paper logbook.
<h3=id="type">Typing your trip report - in the UK Caving Blog</h3>
<p>In recent years we have seen an admirable increase in the number of people writing up their trips and experiences on social media and in particular on the UK Caving blog, see <ahref="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.0">2019 Blog</a>. But please, please also make a handwritten entry in the logbook saying you have done this so that the text and pictures can be transcribed later. It is too easy to lose these: in 2018 there were two blogs in operation and most people didn't know that.
<li>Just type up your trip as a separate file with a useful filename e.g. "logbook-myname-2018-08-03.txt", or just write it in an email, and send it to someone nerdish, or
<li>Install and learn how to use the version control software. (This requires a <var><ahref="computing//bulkupdatelaptop.html">Bulk Update Laptop</a></var>).
ensure that the updates from all the people entering trip data are OK and don't get overwritten by ignorant use of this software. Not recommended until you have been on a previous expo and have helped do the post-expo data tidy afterwards.
idea to type up <i>just your trip(s)</i> in a separate file, e.g. "logbook-mynewtrip.txt", and email it to a nerd if you are sitting at a different laptop.
<p>Do whatever you like to try and represent the logbook in html. The only rigid structure is the markup to allow troggle to parse the files into 'trips':</p>
<p>Note: <var><spanstyle="color:red">T/U</span></var> stands for "Time Underground" in minutes and/or hours. (We do not parse or collate this information so the format and units don't matter.)
<p>Note this special format <var>"<spanstyle="color:red">Top Camp - </span>"</var> in the triptitle line:
<code><pre><div class="triptitle"><spanstyle="color:red">Top Camp - </span>Setting up 76 bivi</div></pre></code>
It denotes the <var>cave</var> or <var>area</var> the trip or activity happened in. It is a word or two separated from the rest of the triptitle with "<var> - </var>" (space-dash-space). Usual values
for this are "Plateau", "Base camp", "264", "Balkon", "Tunnocks", "Travel" etc.
It is necessary that one (and only one) of the people on the trip is set in <spanstyle="color:red"><u></u></span> underline format. This is interpreted to mean that this is the author of the logbook entry. If there is no author set, then this is an error and the entry is ignored.