Re: Count record that resets by date

[Diego Omitto via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Daniel,

you could forward link to a scalcout record that increments a counter and gets the time from a stringout record with DTYP "Soft Timestamp".

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 5:08 PM Maren Purves via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

I have something that needs to be reset on a daily basis and use a
cron job that runs cau with an input file.
Not the most elegant solution, but it works.

HTH,
Maren Purves, EAO

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:02 AM Daniel Cuneo via Tech-talk
<tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'd like to create a database record that counts based on a forward link. This record would need to reset back to zero
> at 12AM every day.
>
> Use case, is where a beam line user hits a reset button repeatably (tied to a bo record) as a work around for something that is broken.
> I'd like to track these resets.
>
> Is there a way to do this with base?
> I'm considering writing a C subroutine for this is it doesn't already exist.
>
> Cheers!
> dpc