1. Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Kay Kasemir ORNL/SNS kasemirk@ornl.gov April 2013 Control System Studio Training - Workspaces, Shared Folders

2. 2Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Workspace Most versions of CSS prompt for a workspace at startup. Ideally, OK to just say “OK”. Change later via menu File, Switch Workspace, but effectively a re-start of CSS

3. 3Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy What is the Workspace? A Directory –Files you see in the CSS Navigator  *.opi displays, …  Click to open –Hidden.metadata  Preference settings  Window positions .log .lock

4. 4Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Must be single-use One instance of CSS per workspace! –Two instances (with different window positions etc.) can’t share the same “Workspace” –Each user should have own workspace  Maybe multiple: One for development, one for operation, …

5. 5Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy How to set the initial, “default” Workspace Command-line css -help Command-line options: -workspace_prompt /some/workspace : Present workspace dialog with given default -data /some/workspace : Select workspace on command-line, no prompt -share_link /path/to/folder=/CSS/Share : Create links to shared folder Custom product css/configuration/config.ini: osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/CSS-Workspaces/Default See p2.inf of example products

6. 6Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy What about shared documents? /usr/fred/Workspace: CSS/Fred’s Display.opi /usr/jane/Workspace: CSS/Jane’s Display.opi /usr/share/controls: Accelerator/main.opi Vacuum/detail.opi ?

7. 7Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy “Linked Folder” /usr/fred/Workspace: CSS/Fred’s Display.opi Share/Accelerator/main.opi Share/Vacuum/detail.opi /usr/jane/Workspace: CSS/Jane’s Display.opi Share/Accelerator/main.opi Share/Vacuum/detail.opi /usr/share/controls: Accelerator/main.opi Vacuum/detail.opi “Share” in Workspace can be a link to folder outside the workspace

8. 8Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Creating “Linked Folder” /usr/fred/Workspace: CSS/Fred’s Display.opi Share/Accelerator/main.opi Share/Vacuum/detail.opi /usr/share/controls: Accelerator/main.opi Vacuum/detail.opi Command-line: css -share_link /usr/share/controls=/Share css -share_link /usr/share/X=/CSS/X,/usr/share/Y=/TheY Running CSS instance: Menu File, New, General/Folder, Advanced, Link … Only creates “Folders” below a “Project”. For a linked “Project”, need to create new “Project” with desired shared location outside of Workspace. Command-line option much easier.

9. 9Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy “Global” Sharing: http://… 1.Place site-wide files on web server 2.View in CSS Updates put on web server available w/o need to copy to every client

10. 10Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy No workspace?  File/Open will often work with non- workspace files –*.opi, *.plt  Windows, OS X: Associate CSS with those file endings  Saving files currently limited to workspace

11. 11Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Workspace…  Directory for files, configuration  One per CSS instance  “Linked” folders for shared files