Panel Name

fwDeviceMassConfiguration.pnl

Introduction
This panel is used to change the settings of a group of devices in one go. The group can be selected according to different criteria: type, name, alias and comment. All the criteria have to be met (logical AND). If a device is passed as parameter, then the search will only apply from that device down the hierarchy (hardware or logical), including itself.
Instructions These steps have to be followed:
  1. Enter the search criteria in the fields enclosed in the 'Device selection' frame. If a device was passed to the panel, the search will be restricted to the hierarchy below that device, including it. In the Figure 1 below, the board dist_16:CAEN/SY1527Crate/board00 was passed as parameter, so it would not be possible to search above it (e.g. setting the field 'Device name' to dist_16:CAEN/caenitco02* would give an error).
  2. After pressing the 'Select' button, the table displays the devices that met the specified criteria. Initially all the listed devices are selected. It is possible to include/exclude devices by ticking the check box at the end of a row or the row itself.
  3. You can now configure with the default settings the hardware connection, the alarms, the archiving or the dp functions for the devices selected in the previous steps.
  4. If all the devices in the table are of the same type, then it is also possible to select individual elements for all of them in the 'Device properties' tab. Choose an element from the table by ticking the check box or clicking on the row. Thereafter, the 'Configs' tab allows you to change specific configs for the selected properties. A panel will pop up to enter the necessary data. By default you can only work with elements declared in the device definition. If you want to work with all the elements in the device, untick the 'Show only functional properties' checkbox in the 'Device properties' tab.
Restrictions
  • It is only possible to select Framework device types. A datapoint type has to be registered as device type to appear in the list.
  • The controls in the 'Configs' tab to set configs, except the one to set an address, will work even if the correspondent config doesn't exist. In that case, the config will be created. For the address, it is only possible to modify existing addresses.

 


Figure 1. Mass Configuration panel for a CAEN board in the hardware hierarchy.

Dollar Parameters
Name Description  
$sDpName Name of the device where the configuration will be changed. Required
$sHierarchyType Type of hierarchy where the panel is open. If no value is specified, then fwDevice_HARDWARE is taken as default value. Optional