[Halld-offline] Set "Run Type" on Run Start

[Richard Jones]

Paul,

I think we need a separate run category for runs with the pair spectrometer
trigger rather than the main detector trigger. Up until now Alex S. has
been doing PS runs in a private area he set up, but that needs to change.
We will need to have PS triggers integrated into the main data stream at
some point, but there will be times when the primary purpose of a run is to
study the beam spectrum, and in such cases we might want to block the main
trigger and run just with the PS trigger. That should probably be in the
pull-down list. There will be a similar run type for the total absorption
counter providing the trigger as well. Then the beam current will be so low
that the general-purpose trigger will be all cosmics, so it might also help
in such a case to have a dedicated run type without the main trigger
enabled.

-Richard Jones


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Paul Mattione <pmatt at jlab.org> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded.  I’ve incorporated your feedback and
> have updated my “Run Purpose” scheme (since "run type" is something else)
> (to-be-saved-in-database values are in parentheses):
>
> Main drop-down menu:
>  - Blank (Invalid / Unknown) (-1)
>  - Production (0)
>  - Test (sub-menu)
>  - Calibration (sub-menu)
>
> Test drop-down menu:
>  - DAQ Test (1)
>  - Trigger Test (2)
>  - Detector Test (3)
>  - Other Test (4)
>
> Calibration drop-down menu:
>  - Cosmic Run (5)
>  - Pulser Run (6)
>  - Pedestal Run (7)
>  - Alignment Run (8)
>  - LED Run (9)
>  - Other Calibration (10)
>
> How does this look?
>
>  - Paul
>
> > On Jan 20, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Paul Mattione <pmatt at jlab.org> wrote:
> >
> > I’m going to ask the online group to implement a system where the shift
> takers can indicate a “run type” during run startup.  This would be a
> drop-down list where users could specify whether the current run is a daq
> test, cosmic run, production run, etc.  This will make it much easier to
> sift through the data later.
> >
> > So my question to the offline group is: What kinds of “Run Types” would
> we find useful?  My first-pass:
> >
> > - Production Run
> > - DAQ Test
> > - Cosmic Run
> > - Pulser Run
> > - Zero-Field Run
> > - Empty Target Run
> > - Misc. Test
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > - Paul
> >
>
>
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