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SNS Control System Studio
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Control System Studio (CSS) is several things. To you as the end user it is this program, which combines tools suitable for usage at the SNS, pre-configured to access the accelerator control system's live and archived data. Technically, CSS a collection of software tools for control systems based on Eclipse, implemented by various people at different sites, which can be combined such that they look like one product to the end user. See http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net for details on the collaboration that creates CSS.
When you start CSS for the very first time, you will see a "Welcome" screen that includes an "Overview", "First Steps" etc. The Overview might have led you to this help screen.
Use the "Restore" button on the window border to make the "Welcome" screen smaller, or close it by pressing the "X" button next to the title.
The "restore" button: |
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The "close" button: |
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If you later want to return to the "Welcome" screen to read more, you can access it via the "Help" menu, subsection "Welcome".
Some basic follow-along ideas to try as a first-time user:
In case of connection problems or error messages, the network preferences under the menu "CSS/Preferences...", subsection "CSS Core/EPICS", might need adjustments.
To try the OPI tool:
Become familiar with the general CSS workbench behavior.
The Data Browser plot, of which there could be more than one, will stay in the center of the workbench, while you can arrange the accessory views like the "Properties" or the "Probe" views in various ways around the central area. Try to move them around by dragging their title bar to a new location. Note how the cursor shape changes to indicate how the view can be placed.
The arrangement of workbench windows is called a Perspective. The initial perspective is called "SNS Control System Studio", as indicated by a label in the upper left screen corner. The button to the left of the current perspective allows opening other perspectives. Use it to open the predefined "Data Browser" perspective, might be useful for Data Browser related work. Switch between the two perspectives by clicking on their title tab. A right-click on their title opens a context menu that allows you to save the current view layout under a different name or restore the original layout of a perspective.
Use the "Help/Help Contents" menu to open the help pages, and read the CSS-Applications related entries.
"Help/Cheat Sheets..." contains step-by-step instructions for selected tasks. Use the 'triangle' in the Cheat Sheets view panel to open the drop-down list of available sheets
Cheat Sheets: |
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