Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Kay Kasemir ORNL/SNS 2011, October at CEA Saclay, France Control System Studio Training - Overview

2Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy What is CSS? Based on le-mac-book-air-lordinateur-portable-le-plus-fin-du-monde.jpg Various control-system tools, combined into a consistent product

3Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Original EPICS Operator Interface  Primarily for Linux/X11  Many disjoint tools –Static layout –Inconsistent Look –Online help? –Data exchange: at best copy/paste PV names

4Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Example Work Flow: React to Alarm CSS includes an alarm system. Operator notices an alarm…

5Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Example Work Flow: React to Alarm.. Context menu of alarm… (“right click”)

6Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Example Work Flow: React to Alarm… Inspect history of PV, annotate, …

7Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Finally: Data Browser  E-Log After inspecting alarm PV’s history, post commented plot to E-Log!

8Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Start CSS Precondition: You somehow got CSS onto your computer  Start the executable –Linux: css –Windows: css.exe –Mac OS X: css.app

9Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Workspace  Might prompt for a workspace at startup –Check or change later via menu File, Switch Workspace  Workspace –Directory where you store CSS files –Hidden.metadata directory with settings  Run only one instance of CSS per workspace! –Each user should have own workspaces –One for development, one for operation, …

10Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy “Welcome”  Displayed when CSS opened on a new workspace –Later: Menu Help, Welcome –Close here or here

11Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Workbench Menu Bar (Mac OS example) Main “Editor” Area Tool Bar Navigator “View” More “Views” in “Tabs” Perspective Selector Status Bar Context Menu (right-click)

12Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Editors, Views, Perspectives Editors: Central Workbench Area –Text editor, BOY Operator Interface panel, Data Browser plot, …  Associated with a file. “Do you want to save?” when closed. Views: Auxiliary panels around Editors –Probe, Properties, Navigator, … Perspective: Arrangement of Editors and Views –Size of editor area. Actual editors remain. –Choice of Views. Views change when switching perspectives.

13Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Layout Options  Editors, Views can be closed, reopened, repositioned –Grab title of panel, move while watching black rectangle indicate possible target locations –Arrange ‘behind’ or ‘beside’ other panels  Multiple Perspectives –Use Context Menu of Perspective to Name, Save, Close, Restore

14Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Editor/View Limitations In the current release of Eclipse,  Editors stay in the central editor area of the screen, surrounded by multiple View areas.  Views cannot be in the editor area and vice versa.  Views can be ‘detached’ as standalone windows, but Editors stay in the workbench window. Multiple workbench windows are OK, though.  In “Eclipse 4” editors and views will be more similar.

15Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Probe  Menu CSS, Diagnostic Tools, Probe  Enter PV name “sim://sine”  Close Probe  Open it again  Select previously entered PV from drop-down  Move Probe to other view area  Close Probe

16Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Preferences, Online Help  Menu CSS, Preferences resp. Help, Help Content  Probe has no preferences and little help, but check settings for –CSS Core, EPICS –CSS Core, Logging

17Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Data Browser  Menu CSS, Trends, Data Browser –Note change to “Data Browser” Perspective, new plot  Plot context menu, Add PV, “sim://sine”  Wait a little, use Stagger and zoom buttons Archive Search “View” Data Browser Perspective “Views”: Plot Properties, Sample Export Main “Editor” Area

18Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy CSS PV Exchange  PV in any CSS Tool  Context Menu  Select other PV Tools –Opens other tool with that PV

19Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Probe via PV Exchange Open Probe on PV from Data Browser –Properties Panel –Context menu of “sim://sine” trace –Process Variable, Probe

20Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Exercise: Things to Try EPICS PV Tree –Trace PV links Clock –What’s special about it? Therapist –When all else fails