Re: Question about EPICS7 + QSRV

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On 8/5/19 6:05 AM, Florian Feldbauer via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I might have a use case for the QSRV feature of EPICS 7. As far as I understand, it can be used to group multiple records to a single custom "PV-Structure".
> 
> In the documentation only the VAL field of a record is put into such a structure.
> 
> Is it also possible to put other fields into it? E.g. like this:
> 
>> record(calc, "recname") {
>>     info(Q:group, {
>>         "grp:name":{
>>              "A.A":{+channel:"A" },
>>              "A.B":{+channel:"B" }
>>         }
>>     })
>> }

Yes.  Loading this snippet verbatim gives:

> $ pvinfo grp:name
> grp:name
...
> Type:
>     structure
...
>         structure A
>             epics:nt/NTScalar:1.0 A
>                 double value
>                 alarm_t alarm
>                     int severity
>                     int status
>                     string message
...
>             epics:nt/NTScalar:1.0 B
>                 double value
>                 alarm_t alarm
>                     int severity
>                     int status
>                     string message
...