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On Jun 18, 2021, at 12:38 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
If you look at the record reference manual for the lsi record here
https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4-docs/lsiRecord.html
<https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4-docs/lsiRecord.html> you will see that the VAL field has DCT=NO. I believe that means you cannot initialize the VAL field in your database file, but I could be mistaken.
Actually having DCT=No won’t prevent you from setting a field in your .db file; you won’t get an error message and
dbLoadRecords() will write that value to the field if it can, but it’s generally an indication that the field isn't intended to be set by hand and nothing different is likely to happen if you do so. Setting the PROC field
of any record demonstrates this nicely.
The DCT column in the record reference tables shows as No when the field has no
promptgroup() setting in its Record.dbd file, implying that there’s no point in an EPICS Database Configuration tool such as VisualDCT or the original dct showing it to the user at design time.
In this particular case both EPICS 7.0 and 3.15 give me an error when trying to set lsi.VAL because the field is actually
DBF_NOACCESS at dbLoadRecords() time, the record support code must be initialized and a buffer allocated for it for the field to become accessible. I’m a bit surprised that Andy didn’t get the same result...
- Andrew
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