XAL based PV Browser

Jeff Patton, Chris Fowlkes

EPICS Collaboration Meeting – RDB SIG

June 12, 2006

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Environment

Oracle RDB

IRMISBase data structure

SNS data structure

XAL Framework (See XAL Status presentation by Tom Pelaia)

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Philosophy

Integrate IRMISBase data with SNS data

Use the XAL framework whose look and feel most SNS users are familiar with

Simple RDB interaction through POJOs and database views to adapt IRMIS to SNS

Tailor functions to SNS users

But make UI configurable for anyone

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Installation

Populate configuration table

Set RDB connection parameters

Install jars and JNLP files on web server

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PV Browser

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Startup

Connects to RDB with a read only account

Reads configuration table to determine objects to define

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Wild Card search

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Drill down by SNS naming components

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History

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Search Results

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Preview

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Search

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So I used all invalid names for my PV’s. It drives that

database guy nuts!

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Preview

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Probe

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View Links

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Map Links

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Probe multiple PV’s

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Export to .db file

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Future

Advanced search

Seamless export to VDCT

Differences between IOC boots