Re: Help understanding DTYP Soft Timestamp

["J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 10/18, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk wrote:
> The part of that record which copies timestamps is the TSEL link pointing to the .TIME field of the record whose timestamp you want to copy. There is documentation for the TSEL and related TSE fields here, hope this helps:
>     https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/8-docs/dbCommonRecord.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eLADVCnYetpN0XAqpFzpPW3IqHxN48gsQg0yYpgSMlUgIxmL8wI5BuvH2QSuaHaZKg0leA62uirY14GwgS-CFw$ 

Hi, Andrew!

Hmm, I think that's going to be hard to find, and it doesn't seem clear
that you can use a DTYP of "Soft Timestamp" in a stringin record.  I'd
expect documentation on the "Soft Timestamp" DTYP to appear in the
stringin documentation at

  https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/8-docs/stringinRecord.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eLADVCnYetpN0XAqpFzpPW3IqHxN48gsQg0yYpgSMlUgIxmL8wI5BuvH2QSuaHaZKg0leA62uirY14GM0NR-nw$ 

That has a "Device Support" section with a "Device Support for Soft
Records" subsection, and it includes information about the DTYP="Soft
Channel" device support as well as the DTYP="getenv" device support.  I
would expect to find information about the DTYP="Soft Timestamp" device
support here, or if not here, at least a link to information about it
here.

Looking at the ai documentation at

  https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/8-docs/aiRecord.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eLADVCnYetpN0XAqpFzpPW3IqHxN48gsQg0yYpgSMlUgIxmL8wI5BuvH2QSuaHaZKg0leA62uirY14EpAdkyTg$ 

it seems to document the DTYP field in the "Input Specification"
subsection of the "Parameter Fields" section.  This seems different than
the stringin record.  I think it would be good for the reference manual
to be consistent in where it documents fields for each record.

Regards,

Lewis