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Entry  08 Mar 2018, Suzannah Daviel, Suggestion, link to an array element displays whole array in mhttpd controlvar.png
    Reply  09 Mar 2018, Suzannah Daviel, Bug Report, link to an array element displays whole array in mhttpd controlvar_good.png
       Reply  23 Mar 2018, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, link to an array element displays whole array in mhttpd Screen_Shot_2018-03-23_at_17.35.54_.png
          Reply  23 Mar 2018, Suzannah Daviel, Bug Report, link to an array element displays whole array in mhttpd 
Message ID: 1350     Entry time: 09 Mar 2018     In reply to: 1349     Reply to this: 1360
Author: Suzannah Daviel 
Topic: Bug Report 
Subject: link to an array element displays whole array in mhttpd 
Further to my last message, I see that a midas version from 2013 does indeed display
links to arrays as I would expect (see attachment). Therefore the problem in later
versions  is a bug rather than a feature.


> A link to an array variable such as
> 
> [local:npet:Stopped]/>ls /rcparams/ControlVariables/
> TRFC:PB5 (V) -> /Equipment/Beamline/Variables/Demand[56]
>                                 17835
> 
> displays the whole Demand array on the mhttpd ODB page (see attachment)
> rather than just the one element Demand[56].
> This behaviour also occurs with older versions of mhttpd.
>  
> Not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but my suggestion is that it
> ought to display the one element only (as odbedit does) and not the whole array.
> 
> Suzannah  
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