Re: record with constant input link

[Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Am Fri, 3 Nov 2023 16:36:31 +0000
schrieb "Johnson, Andrew N." <anj at anl.gov>:

> > I see. But why is this written in the manual for stringin records
> > then?  

> In recent EPICS 7 versions a stringin record can use a JSON "const"
> link<https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/7-docs/links.html#Constant-Link-const>
> in its INP field to provide an initial constant string value, the older
> CONSTANT link type was limited to numeric values (see below). Even
> simpler though is just to set the VAL field in your .db file — this
> works fine as long as the INP field isn't also set.

Thanks to both of you for having the patience to explain this to me. Looks
like I somehow got lost in the documentation and stuck to the wrong lines.


cu
  Gerrit

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