 01 Jun 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023
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Dear MIDAS users,
We would like to arrange another MIDAS workshop, following on from previous successful workshops in 2015, 2017 and 2019. The
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09 Jun 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added IPv6 support for mserver and MIDAS RPC
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as of commit 71fb5e82f3e9a1501b4dc2430f9193ee5d176c82, MIDAS RPC and the mserver
listen for connections both on IPv4 and IPv6. mserver clients and MIDAS RPC
clients can connect to MIDAS using both IPv4 and IPv6. In the default
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 13 Jun 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023 - Sept 13
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Hi All,
Thanks to everyone who filled out the doodle poll.
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20 Jun 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New environment variable MIDAS_EXPNAME
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I just realized that we had already MIDAS_EXPT_NAME, and now people get confused with
MIDAS_EXPT_NAME
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28 Jul 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New environment variable MIDAS_EXPNAME
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Concerning naming of shared memories I went one step further due to some requirement of a local experiment.
The experiment needs to change the experiment name shown on the web status page depending on the exact
configuration, but we do not want to change the whole midas experiment each time.
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15 Aug 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mlogger update
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A bit of update to the mlogger. In preparation for more cleanup when Stefan is
here at TRIUMF.
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17 Aug 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023 - Sept 12-13
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Dear All,
A quick update on the MIDAS workshop. Based on the number of planned talks we have made the decision to switch to a two day workshop on Sept 12 and 13 |
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06 Sep 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023 - Sept 12-13
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Dear All,
A final reminder about the MIDAS workshop in 6 days. A (hopefully) finalized agenda is posted here:
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26 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, mjsonrpc_db_save / mjsonrpc_db_load have been dropped
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The JavaScript function
mjsonrpc_db_save / mjonrpc_db_load
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06 Oct 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, default midas history switched to "FILE" and "PerVariable" history
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We are very happy with the "FILE" implementation of MIDAS history and it is time
to make it the default for new experiments. This history driver works best if
"per variable" history is alos enabled. (SQL history already only works in "per-
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06 Oct 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new history panel editor
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the new history panel editor has been activated. it is meant to work the same as
the old editor, with some improvements to the history variables selection page.
this new version is written in html+javascript and it will be easier to improve,
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06 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display
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Since a long time we tried to convert all "static" mhttpd-generated pages to
dynamic JavaScript. With the new history panel editor we were almost there. Now I
committed the last missing piece - the equipment display. This is shown when you
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09 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display 
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An additional functionality has been implemented on the equipment table:
You can now select several elements by Ctrl/Shift-Click on their names, then change the
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07 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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Dear beloved MIDAS users,
I'm happy to announce a "holiday update" for MIDAS. In countless hours, Zaher from
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10 Dec 2023, Andreas Suter, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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Hi Stefan and Zaher,
there is a problem with the new sequencer interface for midas.
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10 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> If I understand the msequencer code correctly:
> Under '/Sequencer/State/Path' the path can be defined from where the msequencer gets the files, generates the xml, etc.
> However, the new javascript code reads/writes the files to '<exp>/userfiles/sequencer/'
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10 Dec 2023, Andreas Suter, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> > If I understand the msequencer code correctly:
> > Under '/Sequencer/State/Path' the path can be defined from where the msequencer gets the files, generates the xml, etc.
> > However, the new javascript code reads/writes the files to '<exp>/userfiles/sequencer/'
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12 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> > 3) Make /Sequencer/State/Path relative to <exp>/userfiles. Like if /Sequencer/State/Path=test would then result to a final directory <exp>/userfiles/sequencer/test
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> > I'm kind of tempted to go with 3), since this allows the experiment to define different subdirectories under <exp>/userfiles/sequencer/... depending |
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15 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Implementation of custom scatter, histogram and color map plots
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Custom plots including scatter, histogram and color map plots have been
implemented. This lets you plot graphs of X/Y data or histogram data stored in the
ODB on a custom page. For some examples and documentation please go to
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12 Feb 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS and ROOT 6.30
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Starting around ROOT 6.30, there is a new dependency requirement for nlohmann-json3-dev from https://github.com/nlohmann/json.
If you use a Ubuntu-22 ROOT binary kit from root.cern.ch, MIDAS build will bomb with errors: Could not find a package configuration file provided by "nlohmann_json"
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