Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dear Shantonu,

The new Channel Access event type flag DBE_PROPERTY was introduced in EPICS 3.14.11, but proper support for the EPICS records is only available in the EPICS 3.15 series.

I do not have a good idea about how CS-Studio, BOY and CAJ are supporting this feature. I was prompting you for the versions, hoping that one of the CS-Studio people would pick your question up. (With the version numbers, they should be able to give an answer.)

Sorry...
~Ralph

Dear Ralph,

Can you tell me the exact versions of EPICS base, CSS and CAJ in which this feature is incorporated.

Shantonu Sahoo
वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer
कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group
परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center
Ph: (033) 23182300

[email protected] wrote: -----

To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
From: Shantonu Sahoo
Sent by: [email protected]
Date: 06/06/2016 03:27PM
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY

I am using EPICS base-3.14.12.5, CS-Studio 4.1.4 , Java Utilities 3.2.0. I am not sure about the version of CAJ. I am not using EPICS CA Gateway.

Shantonu Sahoo
वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer
कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group
परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center
Ph: (033) 23182300

-----Ralph Lange <[email protected]> wrote: -----

To: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
Date: 06/06/2016 02:19PM
Cc: Shantonu Sahoo <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY

A feature to allow such updates of metadata has been added to EPICS Base and the Channel Access protocol recently.

What versions of EPICS Base (your IOC), CS-Studio (your client) and CAJ (the Java CA client library inside CS-Studio) are you using? Is there an EPICS CA Gateway involved? (If yes, what version?)

Thanks,
~Ralph

On 06/06/2016 10:29, Shantonu Sahoo wrote:

I am using CSS-BOY to display a process variable using "Text Update". I have checked the "Show Units" property. So, in addition to the VALue, it displays the string that is specified in the EGU field of the record. But, in the runtime, if the EGU field changes, it is not updated in the OPI until I do "Refresh OPI". In contrary, the VALue is updated smoothly. 

Shantonu Sahoo
वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer
कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group
परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center
Ph: (033) 23182300