UniDo EPICS Meeting 2003 The Electronic Logbook of DELTA Elke Kasel June 2003 e-journal.
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UniDo
EPICS Meeting 2003
The Electronic Logbook of DELTA
Elke Kasel
June 2003
e-journal
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2Elke Kasel <[email protected]>
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Once upon a time
there was a chaotic handwritten logbook
We want• search options• automatic entries from programms
In 2000 Matthew Bickley and Karen White from Jefferson Lab provided elog to DELTA
but we failed to adapt elog
So I sit down and write my own program.
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3Elke Kasel <[email protected]>
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• stores entries in an Oracle database
• is written in tcl/tk (DELTA convention)
• has a modular structure
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The Configuration File
• define database access (password or confirmation)
• can provide automatic entries– for usual text, like „start of shift, operator name...“– for sets of values fetched from EPICS records– for information fetched from the Oracle database
• can provide Operator list
contains all environment specific information
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Requirements• Oracle Database (sql commands for table
creation are provided)
• Tcl/Tk 8.4 (free)– Tcl package BLT– Tcl package Tix
• the program import from ImageMagick (free)
• the e-journal package (free)– tcl/tk packages– tcl/tk GUI and html Interface– sampe configuration file
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Future Plans for e-journal
other Databases
(mysql ?) other formats
more
functionality
