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CSS Control System Studio Update
EPICS collaboration meeting 2008 Shanghai
Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), 13th March
2008 Jan Hatje, Matthias Clausen, Helge Rickens
DESY / MKS-2
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Overview and Current State

• Version 1.0.0 of CSS (Core) is now available
• A headless build checks every night all CSS
  plugins for errors
• CSS Beta with the most recent features is on the
  CSS website
• The Alarm System (from IOC to SMS) is implemented
  and tested by the operators
• Reliability of Synoptic Display Studio is
  improved

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CSS Design
IDE with CSS applications
CSS UI
CSS Headless
CSS appl.
CSS appl.
CSS appl.
CSS appl.
CSS appl.
UI CSS appl.
CSS Core UI
Eclipse IDE
CSS Core
Eclipse RCP UI
Eclipse RCP
Eclipse Runtime
Java Virtual Machine
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Headless Build I

• Errors in CSS plugins are detected automatically
• The headless build process is not used for
  deployment yet
• Ant scripts for headless build are predefined in
  eclipse
• The selection of plugins for the headless build
  is set in a CVS project
• A program checks the log files and sends status
  mails to the developers

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Headless Build II
eclipse Headless Build
Developer
CVS
CVS
CSS Plugins
CSS Plugins
log files
Headless Build Configuration
Developer
CheckHB.xml
Check Headless Build
status mail
status mail
Detailed description csstudio.org ? Developers
Corner ? Headless Build
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CSS Beta

• Version with the latest features of CSS plugins
• Not as reliable as the current CSS release
• CSS Beta Update Site has only two features
  global plugins and plugins for the DESY
  environment
• CSS Update Site is possibly not compatible with
  CSS Beta
• CSS Beta download csstudio.org ? Download ? CSS
  Beta
• Currently there are just a few new features in SDS

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Alarm System I

• Log Alarms
• IOC Task Log Alarms monitors EPICS records for
  alarm status changes
• Sends alarm messages to the Interconnection
  Server via UDP
• Handles a set of Interconnection Server
  connections for fallback

• Interconnection Server
• Headless CSS application
• Sends alarm messages to the JMS Server
• Updates the persistent store on the LDAP Server
• Controlled via XMPP commands

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Alarm System II

• Alarm Management System
• Distribution of alarm messages to operators via
  SMS, Mail, Voice
• Group management of alarm message receivers
• Configurable filters for different criteria
• Easily extensible (new filter types, new receiver
  types)

• Alarm Table
• Shows alarm messages chronologically
• Search in alarm history

• Alarm Tree
• Representation of persistent store
• Shows the status of each record

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Alarm System III
OpenJMS Server
CSS Headless Instance
Interconnection Server
IOC
Filter Manager
LDAP Server
Jms2Ora
Filter
CSS UI Instance
configuration
Alarm Tree
Alarm, Log displays
Action
SMS, Mail
Alarm archive
Alarm Message System
configuration
A test installation of the LDAP- and JMS-Server
for external user are now available. For the
settings please look on our CSS web site.
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Synoptic Display Studio

• Synoptic Display Studio (SDS) is a set of CSS
  plugins
• SDS is based on GEF
• Easy to add new widgets
• Connection to control system via DAL
• Initialiser for widgets
• CVS support for the management of displays
• ADL converter to reuse MEDM Displays

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Synoptic Display Studio

• Align, ruler, snap to geometry, grid, ...
  functionality
• Order of overlapping widgets (To front, One
  step to front, )
• Multiple layers to organize large displays
• Aliases for process variables
• Edit properties for many widgets
• SDS Documentation Menu Help ? Help Contents
  ? CSS Applications

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Synoptic Display Studio UI
Widget palette
Editor field
Workspace
Property View
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SDS CVS support
Operator (Using Displays)
Developer (Using and editing Displays)
CVS
CVS
Update (periodically)
CSS Plugins
Display Repository
Commit and Update
Operator (Using Displays)
Developer (Using and editing Displays)

• CVS repository holds all displays files
• Operators get periodically an update that they
  are using always the current display versions
• No parallel versions of displays (Developers do
  not work on copies of the displays)
• History of all changes

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SDS Dynamic aspects
Dynamisation of a property means that the
property depends on a value of a process variable

• Dynamisation is indicated by a gear wheel
• Every widget property can be dynamic
• Initialiser sets dynamic aspects for default
  properties
• Rules for control system connections (calculate
  e. g. a double value to color)
• User can add new rules (JavaScript rules in
  workspace)
• Time widget executes rules periodically

SDS
Data Access Layer
Control system
Rule
Widget
Process variable
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SDS Action Data
Actions are related to widgets

• A widget can hold many actions
• Actions are inherited (Actions of display are
  available in all widgets)

Action type Open as View/Shell
Display Overview
Show Facility B
Show Facility A

• Opens a display from workspace
• Call new display with parameters

Open Display with Alias A
Open Display with Alias B
Action type Send Value
Display Facility

• Writes a value to a process variable

Display Facility A
Display Facility B
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SDS Example
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Outlook, Further information

• Implementation of strip chart and 16 bit widget
• Default values as parameters for rules
• Visualization for Channel Access Security in SDS
• Improve documentation for user and developer
• Get help information for the active object
• EDM converter for SDS
• For more information or to download CSS please
  see the CSS website http//css.desy.de
• To get the CSS applications please use the update
  mechanism Help ? Software Updates ? Find and
  Install ? Search for new features
• For questions please contact matthias.clausen_at_de
  sy.de, jan.hatje_at_desy.de
• - Thank you -