RE: subArray INDX field? (3.14.6 -v- 3.13.6)

["Chestnut, Ronald P." <ronc@slac.stanford.edu>]

 Just to put people's minds to rest ...

 The automatic conversion from GDCT to VDCT added the INDX entry which was giving us problems.

 We did not have a local version with a DBF_INLINK in the INDX field.

 The database had a nice longout with DOL and OUT links to "push" the value into INDX.
 I was able to edit the record in VDCT and remove the INDX entry.

 I cannot recreate this problem by just using VDCT, although it insists on linking the OUT field to the VAL field of the SUBARRAY record. That I'll report separately to the KGB. 

Ron Chestnut

-----Original Message-----
From: Laznovsky, Michael [mailto:lazmo@slac.stanford.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:56 PM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Cc: Laznovsky, Michael
Subject: subArray INDX field? (3.14.6 -v- 3.13.6)

Hi- can someone tell me what's wrong with this record... I believe it used to work under 3.13.6:

template:
---------
	file db/bic_tunevals.db
	{
	#           Station  Micro Unit
	  pattern { STN  ,   U   }
	          { LB60 ,   59  }
	          { HB60 ,   58  }
	}

bic_tunevals.db:
---------------
	record(subArray,GP00:CSTR:EXTRACT) {
	  field(DESC,"CSTR Voltage inspector")
	  field(DTYP,"Soft Channel")
	  field(PREC,"2")
	  field(MALM,"20")
	  field(INP,"GP00:CSTR:ARRY PP MS")
	  field(INDX,"GP00:CSTR:CRATE NPP MS")
	}

error:
------
	dbLoadTemplate("db/ps00_misc.template")

	Error   Last token ")"
	input line:   field(INDX,"GP00:CSTR:CRATE NPP MS")
	   in: file db/bic_tunevals.db line 47

	db_parse returned -1

A constant, e.g. "2", in INDX works OK... was 3.13 wrong, or is 3.14?  Seems like INDX needs to support dynamic values to be useful.

thanks!
Mike