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Experimental and operational activities at European XFEL depend on timely communication between instrument scientists, users, and support teams. While electronic logbooks have traditionally served as passive records, day-to-day facility operation requires a platform that also supports structured communication, coordinated team access, and automated information flow.
This contribution shows how myLog is evolving into an operational layer for experiment and support workflows at European XFEL, combining structured communication, automated information exchange, proposal-based logbook provisioning, and bot-supported notifications within a single collaborative platform. Following beamtime scheduling and acceptance in myMdC, logbooks can now be created automatically with proposal experiment teams and support staff already assigned, reducing administrative overhead and improving consistency. In parallel, myLog supports the ongoing migration of experimental and operational logbooks from the legacy ELOG service into a unified environment.
Recent developments include the operation of a central bot server, the deployment of bots for notification and information-routing tasks such as "Copy by tags", technical and functional improvements in DAMNIT and Karabo integration, Zulip upgrades with folder support, and the export of logbook streams through a Jupyter-based tool. myLog also now includes an in-house hosted LLM-based support bot that assists support colleagues in operational tasks.
