epics-base/documentation/RecordReference.md

Record Reference Documentation

The following documentation for the record types and menus include with Base was converted from the old EPICS Wiki pages and updated. This list only includes the record types supplied with Base.

• Fields Common to All Record Types
• Fields Common to Input Record Types
• Fields Common to Output Record Types

Record Types

• Analog Array Input Record (aai)
• Analog Array Output Record (aao)
• Analog Input Record (ai)
• Analog Output Record (ao)
• Array Subroutine Record (aSub)
• Binary Input Record (bi)
• Binary Output Record (bo)
• Calculation Output Record (calcout)
• Calculation Record (calc)
• Compression Record (compress)
• Data Fanout Record (dfanout)
• Event Record (event)
• Fanout Record (fanout)
• Histogram Record (histogram)
• 64bit Integer Input Record (int64in)
• 64bit Integer Output Record (int64out)
• Long Input Record (longin)
• Long Output Record (longout)
• Long String Input Record (lsi)
• Long String Output Record (lso)
• Multi-Bit Binary Input Direct Record (mbbiDirect)
• Multi-Bit Binary Input Record (mbbi)
• Multi-Bit Binary Output Direct Record (mbboDirect)
• Multi-Bit Binary Output Record (mbbo)
• Permissive Record (permissive)
• Printf Record (prinf)
• Select Record (sel)
• Sequence Record (seq)
• State Record (state)
• String Input Record (stringin)
• String Output Record (stringout)
• Sub-Array Record (subArray)
• Subroutine Record (sub)
• Waveform Record (waveform)

Menu Definitions

• Alarm Severity Menu
• Alarm Status Menu
• Analog Conversions Menu
• Field Type Menu
• Invalid Value Output Action Menu
• Output Mode Select Menu
• Scan Menu
• Simulation Mode Menu
• Yes/No Menu

Corrections and Updates

Corrections to these documents can be submitted as patch files to the EPICS core developers, or as merge requests or pull requests to the 7.0 branch of Base. The document sources can be found in the modules/database/src/std/rec and modules/database/src/ioc/db directories in files with extension .dbd.pod. The documentation source format is a combination of the EPICS DBD file format with an extended version of Perl's POD (plain old documentation); run perldoc pod for details of POD.