Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:30:05 +0100

Andrew Johnson wrote:
...

I believe it is well-recognized that the status and severity of a PV reflect

the state of the record containing that PV rather than the state of PV value

itself.

This is not fully true.
* The "pseudo fields" RTYP and VERS report random (?) status and severity.

* When using monitors on fields, lets say EGU, status and severity are not

updated when they change and thus do not reflect the state of the PV.

BTW: Many records have a general problem reporting correct attributes to any

field but VAL. For example, reporting the EGU field as the units of the PREC

field is obvious nonsense.

Dirk

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Dr. Dirk Zimoch
Paul Scherrer Institut, WBGB/006
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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