Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Alarm severity is usually propagated along with a value by adding the 'MS' (Maximize Severity)
link modifier.  eg.

>         field(OUTB, "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-I PP MS")

Will push a value to "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-I" and copy the alarm
severity of the originating (aSub) record.


On 4/29/20 9:43 AM, Sobhani, Bayan via Tech-talk wrote:
> I am able to set the alarm status of an asub record by doing the following in an asub function:
> 
>  
> 
> recGblSetSevr(prec,READ_ALARM,MAJOR_ALARM);
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> 
> This works for the asub record. Instead of setting the alarm like this for an asub record though, I was wondering if it is possible to set the alarm for an ai record.
> 
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> Here is my attempt so far. My asub record is defined as:
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> record(aSub, "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-Elapsed_asub") {
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>         field(SNAM, "timeElapsed")
> 
>         field(INPA, "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-Time")
> 
>         field(OUTA, "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-Elapsed PP")
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>         field(OUTB, "$(Sys)$(Dev)T$(N_T)-I.NSTA")
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>         field(FTA, "DOUBLE")
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>         field(FTVA, "DOUBLE")
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>         field(FTVB, "ENUM")
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>         field(SCAN, "5 second")
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> }
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> I specified the alarm I am trying to set in OUTB. And then in my asub c file I try to do the following:
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> *((epicsEnum16*)prec->valb) = READ_ALARM;
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> I get the following messages in the IOC:
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> Error (511,511) PV: XF:17ID-CT:FMX{RG:F4}T-I.NSTA error detected in routine: dbPut
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> Is there any way I can set the alarm status for an ai record from an asub function? I can do it for an asub record, but asub records lack some features that I want from ai records, such as HIGH and HIHI fields.
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> 
> Alex
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