ALL DTAGGING FUNCTIONALY HAVE BEEN INCLUTED IN https://dmagic.readthedocs.io/
DTagging is used at the Advanced Photon Source Imaging Group to generate EPICS Process Variables (PVs)for storing the information associated with the current user including:
- User Name
- User Institution
- User Badge
- User e-mail
- General User Proposal (GUP) number
- Proposal Title
The current user information is obtained from the APS scheduluing system running at a predefined beamline. This information can be easely stored in all hdf files collected using area detector see DXFile for more details.
Install PyEpics:
pip install pyepics
edit your .cshrc to set PYEPICS_LIBCA:
Example: setenv PYEPICS_LIBCA /APSshare/epics/extensions-base/3.14.12.2-ext1/lib/linux-x86_64/libca.so
- Install DMagic from source
To access the APS scheduling system you need to create in your home directory the DMagic configuration file scheduling.ini.
Clone the DTagging project from its GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/decarlof/DTagging.git DTagging cd DTagging
Load in your EPICS ioc the DTagging/epics/experimentInfo.db file. Example:
dbLoadRecords("$(TOP)/32idcTXMApp/Db/experimentInfo.db", "P=32idcTXM:")Add a link to your main MEDM screen to load the DTagging/epics/experimentInfo.adl file.
Customize the DTagging/pv_beamline.py file to match the PV names in use at your beamline then run:
python pv_update.py
pv_user.py reads the current user information from the scheduling system and update the user information PVs. You can verify the result by accessing the user info medm screen or by running:
python pv_print.py
- Generate PVs containing the current experiment/user information