Hello,
The QSL action field is used to know the way the QSL confirmation has been or must be sent. You can set any content you like but usually is "send" when is pending to send the QSL card. "None" when you don't want to send a QSL card, "direct" or "bureau" to indicate the way it has been sent or has to be sent etc. If you have activated the membership panel, it will set LoTw, eQSL or LoTW + eQSL if the station is user of these online services (it could be only one or both) just to inform user that it's LotW/eQSL user. The intention of the QSL Action field is to help user to avoid selecting QSO marked as LoTW/eQSL in the Print QSL card wizard to avoid sending a QSL card if QSO partner is using electronic confirmations. Please read this:
- QSL Rules:
https://www.swisslogforwindows.com/engli...m#QSLRules
- Print QSL cards:
https://www.swisslogforwindows.com/engli...0Cards.htm
In case of LotW/eQSL synch, the field used to know the LoTW/eQSL status is LOTW STATUS/eQSL STATUS. This field is blank when you have not performed any synchronization. After a first synch, the content could be "Accepted", "Uploaded", or "Confirmed" (in case of LoTW) or "Uploaded" or "Confirmed" in case of eQSL. If you don't want to send certain QSO to LoTW/eQSL, simply set "Uploaded" to the LoTW status / eQSL Status field. When Swisslog performs the LoTW/eQSL synchronization, it won't upload QSOs that are already marked as "Uploaded". You can mass update a field in many QSO by setting a specific content in any logbook view. Read the "Multiple QSO Update" in the Swisslog help. You can select the QSOs you don't want to upload by means of the the filtering tools provided by the Logbook view and set "Uploaded" in these fields. You will have to load a query including these fields. Simply go to View / Logbook view (selection) and select "Status Online Logbooks" from the Logbook folder. This query contains all these fields.
However, I don't see a reason to do this extra work! Why you don't want to upload a QSO that you have worked even if the QSO partner is not eQSL/Lotw member currently? If you don't upload these QSO and this station become member, you will never get this confirmation at all! LoTw/eQSL synch in Swisslog is very easy once configured (just 2 mouse clicks). If someday this station become Lotw/eQSL member, the Swisslog synch will set the "Confirmed" tag in the corresponding Status field. But if this QSO is never uploaded, you won't get the chance to get them confirmed. The way you want to handle this will cause you a lot of work because you have to search if this station is eQSL/LoTW member, set the QSO to "Uploaded" and do lot of things... Uploading QSOs has no cost and Swisslog handles all this automatically for you. The first time you upload QSOs into eQSL, depending the number of QSO you have, it may take some hours (the first time simply leave Swisslog working the whole night). But afterwards, it will run very faster because Swisslog will only upload the QSOs since your last synch (the ones with blank content in the Lotw/eQSL status fields).
Of course it's only a suggestion. Swisslog offers many options to do selective synch or whatever you like to do. But the automatic way is very simple and faster and you don't need to worry about if a station is currently an eQSL/LoTW member or not. Maybe someday become member, uploads all his/her old logs and you will get many confirmations in the next synch. I often get confirmations from QSOs dated in the 80/90s because now this station has become member! Now I have been able to get the confirmation because I uploaded all my QSOs previously.
Best 73
