I believe all of the synApps screens have text-entry widgets for both the INPx and x value fields.

I checked the auto settings .req files and they save both the INPx and x value fields in autosave.

Changing the behavior so constant link fields cannot be changed at run-time should thus not break existing databases, since the x value fields will be autorestored.  It would require training users to enter new constants into the value fields, not INP fields.

Mark


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Hi Keenan,

Does synApps have GUI screens that have a text-entry widget for the INP fields but only a text-display widget for the corresponding value field on these record types? That's the other case I'm most concerned about.

- Andrew


On 4/23/19 10:41 AM, Lang, Keenan C. wrote:

>From a scan of our IOC's, it crops up in user calcs, pid calculations and limits, slit transforms, bpm calculations, cmdReply formatting, shutter arming, and a database for fastshutter limits.

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From: Mooney, Tim M.
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>>What is the bug?

>Record types that are based off of calcout can no longer have a constant value written to their input fields and have the >value of the correct data field change. For example, writing '5' to a calcout's INPA field no longer changes the A field to >5. This affects the calcout, aCalcout, sCalcout, transform, and luascript records.

I'm sure I've never written a database that relies on this behavior.

Tim Mooney (<email address hidden><mailto:<email address hidden>>) (630)252-5417 Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov<http://www.aps.anl.gov>)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab

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>Keenan Lang is working to release synApps 6.1 by the end of May (see 
>his question at 
>https://github.com/epics-modules/iocStats/issues/33#issuecomment-484995
>327), but I don't know if that is intended to support EPICS 7

I don't think this release will officially support EPICS 7, but I am definitely going to try to start getting all of our code compliant with newer versions. That's what ended up finding this issue as I was updating some of my own code for the changes to links.

>I understand this seems like a rush, but a synApps release strikes me as a good reason to try and get this fix included.

Since the whole of synApps isn't likely to use EPICSv7 at least for the next year or more, there's not really a rush. The only IOC's going in that use it will be for specific areaDetector cameras and they don't really use the record types affected.

>What is the bug?

Record types that are based off of calcout can no longer have a constant value written to their input fields and have the value of the correct data field change. For example, writing '5' to a calcout's INPA field no longer changes the A field to 5. This affects the calcout, aCalcout, sCalcout, transform, and luascript records.
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