General Usage

The questionnaire is a form that is filled out between the experiment POC and the controls POC. IT contains the requested setup for every aspect of the experiment, including the motors, lasers, cameras and vacuum components. 

The questionnaire is available here through the pswww interface. There is a questionnaire for each run and the proposal catalog lists all of the experiments. Note, some experiments are listen in multiple runs. 

$ epicsarch-qs exp_name 

If no hutch is passed it will extract from the experiment name. 

Optional Args

• path - allows user to specify a specific path for an archfile to be created/updated
  • If no path is provided it will default to: 

    Default path: /cds/group/pcds/dist/pds/[HUTCH]/misc/

• dry-run - prints preview to the console of what will be included in the experiment archfile

• softlink - updates the softlink to the epicsArch_experiment_specific.txt

• linkpath - provides user with the option to supply custom file path for softlink.
• cds items - gets current data from the questionnaire API via psdm client

• level - more for developers and troubleshooting, allows the user to specify a debugging level.

Useful Info:

EngGen_04032024.pptx