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Improve pmac DB templates for tidier PVI engineering screen generation #141

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During a discussion on #140 with @coretl and @shihab-dls we decided on the following to improve PVI auto screen generation for pmac.

Simplified Templates

  • Create a new pmacAxis.template that incorporates:
    • all things included by dls_pmac_asyn_motor.template (cs and non-cs flavours)
    • PLUS axisStatus.template
    • i.e. ALL the per-axis things
  • And a new pmacController.template (name to be decided) that includes
    • All the templates we currently instantiate per Controller
    • EXCEPT axisStatus * n
    • i.e. ALL the per-Controller things (one of each)
  • Now we can make PVI devices for each of the above and have:
    • N Axis screens, 1 for each axis including all of the names:
      • $(P):AXIS$(ADDR) for axis status stuff
      • $(P):$(M): for motor record and supporting records
      • $(P):M$(ADDR) as an alias to the above

Alternative

Writing this up it occurs to me that we could instead:-

  • remove references to pmacAxis.template when rendering controller templates
  • insert an include of pmacAxis.template into dls_pmac_asyn_motor.template (and CS equivalent)

This would be backwards compatible because the set of PVs created would be the same (except that non-existent axes would not get axisStatus - same as the above)
@coretl do you prefer this?

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