Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

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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