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Hi Kay,

 

As an addendum to your mention of IRMIS-type data on EPICS PVs, the IRMIS 2 Global Search Tool (GST) provides information on a PV’s optional alias names (if alias names have been defined) and links to more information about that PV’s IOC and AOIs (please see picture below of IRMIS 2 GST).

 

Regards,

 

Debby

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kasemir, Kay
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:37 PM
To: John Dobbins; Andrew Johnson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: command line tool to list all field values of a Record ?

 

Hi:

 

As mentioned, Channel Access doesn't tell you what fields a record might

have. You have to parse the DBD file that your IOC loaded.

 

> Yes, CSS includes PVTree which is similar.

The CSS PV Tree,

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/EPICSPVTree, uses Channel

Access to read .RTYP, then uses a configurable table to read more fields

depending on the record type, for example INPA, INPB, INPC, ... for calc

records, and tries to figure out if those in turn contain what looks like

another record name, which it then reads recursively.

 

In addition we have a "PV Fields" tool for CSS, see

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/PVFieldsViewer ,

that displays all the configured fields of a record,

Value in the original DB file as well as current value,

based on IRMIS-type data in the RDB.

 

 

Thanks,

Kay