Experimental Physics and
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"Pearson, Matthew R." <[email protected]> · Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:03:03 +0000

Hi Phil,

The way we do this is via the command line option “-share-link” to set up a different project for the OPI screens.

I’ve pasted our CSS command line below. We have all our common screens in one place called “share”, which is actually located at /home/controls/share/master on the filesystem. In the CSS navigator this appears as simply “share”. 

So OPI buttons in our beamline specific projects use a relative link to get to the OPI screens located in the share project, e.g the file path would be something like “../../share/opi/blah.opi”

There’s a reason we use relative links rather than absolute paths for the file path used by the action button (which I think is related to remote access via a web server), but either should work.

Cheers,
Matt

/home/controls/css/CSS/css -consoleLog -pluginCustomization /home/controls/bl4b/css/combined_settings.ini -workspace_prompt /home/controls/var/workspaces/mkp/bl4b-dassrv1 -share_link /home/controls/share/master=/share,/home/controls/bl4b=/bl4b,/home/controls/var/tmp=/tmp --launcher.appendVmargs -vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.cairoGraphics=false -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.useCairo=false -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/home/controls/css/xulrunner

Data Acquisition and Control Engineer
Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge National Lab

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Phil Atkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael, and thanks for your response.
> 
> From it I can conclude that no: I'm not missing anything.
> 
> I'm such a beginner with all this that I don't really feel qualified to request a new feature - but at least now I don't need to spend any more time looking for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
> On 29/01/2016 13:58, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> IMO this is as good a forum as any.  You might also open an issue:
>> 
>> 
>> https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/cs-studio/issues
>> 
>> 
>> That said, others have requested this feature in years past (myself included) and had it denied.  I'd be happy to find that it has been added though.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/29/2016 06:47 AM, Phil Atkin wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this the wrong forum for this question?  I found a Google Groups forum for CSS BOY, but activity seems low and I haven't had any responses there, either.
>>> 
>>> Phil
>>> 
>>> On 26/01/2016 14:57, Phil Atkin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I had hoped that BOY would support a global 'search path' facility like medm's "EPICS_DISPLAY_PATH".  I thought I had found it with the "OPI Search Path" setting (under Preferences... CSS Applications... Display... BOY).  But although I find that menus with 'Open OPI' actions search this path, it seems that Linking Container objects do not.  (I see an error message reporting a FileNotFoundException; the missing path is to the container's directory).  Am I missing something?
>>>> 
>>>> (I'm developing controls for an areaDetector driver, and I'm trying to reference standard areaDetector opi screens defined in a central location without copying them).
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running under Windows 64.
>>>> Help... About reports 'CS-Studio 4.1.5-SNAPSHOT'.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Phil
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System