Re: Adding additional fields to be archived in "policies.py"

[Timo Korhonen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi again, 

> Maybe the plugin doesn't support this? In that case would could probably
> fall back on creating an extra channel per device that reflects the error
> status. Or would the first idea we had (simply adding PVNAME.STAT
> explicitely to the archiver) work as well?

In the meantime, until the requested feature is available in the plugin, you can of course use your first idea. That should work, albeit with the caveats that I mentioned earlier (non-atomicity).
Adding an extra channel (=record) should not be necessary.

Timo