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Control System Studio Training - Overview

This training provides an overview of Control System Studio (CSS) and how to use it for control system development and operation. Topics covered include workspace setup, simulation PVs, preferences and online help, probe usage, workbench layout options, data browser, and more.

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Control System Studio Training - Overview

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  1. Control System Studio Training-Overview Kay Kasemir ORNL/SNS kasemirk@ornl.gov 2012, January 9-12 at NSRRC, Taiwan

  2. Exercise: Start CSS Precondition:You somehow got CSS onto your computer • Start the executable • Linux: css • Windows: css.exe • Mac OS X: css.app

  3. 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, …

  4. “Welcome” • Displayed when CSS opened on a new workspace • Later: Menu Help, Welcome • Close here or here

  5. Control System Want to concentrate on CSS .. still need a control system to talk to • Use built-in simulation PVs sim://sine sim://ramp sim://noise • Use provided demo databasessoftIoc -m user=demo1 –s -d tank.db -d control.db Use your group number instead of “1”. Run ‘dbl’ to see list of records.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Workbench Menu Bar (Mac OS example) Tool Bar Perspective Selector Main “Editor” Area Navigator “View” Context Menu (right-click) More “Views” in “Tabs” Status Bar

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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 Data Browser Perspective Main “Editor” Area Archive Search “View” “Views”: Plot Properties, Sample Export

  13. CSS PV Exchange • PV in anyCSS Tool Context Menu  Select other PV Tools • Opens other tool with that PV

  14. Exercise: Probe via PV Exchange Open Probe on PV from Data Browser • Properties Panel • Context menu of “sim://sine” trace • Process Variable, Probe

  15. Exercise: Things to Try EPICS PV Tree • Trace PV links Clock • What’s special about it? Therapist • When all else fails

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