Conveners
Zero/Low-code Solutions
- Chris Roderick (CERN)
Description
Zero/low-code solutions (lightning talks / demos, followed by group-discussion)
In a challenge faced by many institutes is how to enable equipment experts, physicists and operators to produce graphical applications that meet their needs, without having to invest a significant effort into writing fully-fledged graphical applications and worry about maintaining these over time as the underlying technologies inevitably evolve.
In this session, we will look at examples of developments from different institutes the aim to address this point, hearing about what has been achieved so far, and the associated challenges such as technical complexity and user acceptance.
An introduction of the Taurus library [1] (PyQt based) and demos of:
- The TaurusGUI framework (creation of GUIs without programming but with: a wizard, drag and drop and floating panels)
- Creating Taurus widgets/applications with the Qt designer.
- A brief demo of the Taurus evaluation scheme for making quick operations on the model data later on visualized by the widgets.
[1]...
WRAP (Web-based Rapid Application Platform) is a zero-code platform that allows anybody to easily configure GUI applications to interact with CERN's accelerator control system. In this session, we will briefly explain the motivation for WRAP, the technologies used, the current status and key challenges, as well as a demo.
For the past ten years RadiaSoft has been developing browser based GUIs for accelerator simulations. Recently we have begun integrating these simulation tools with control displays that are automatically generated using lattice files for accelerators and beamlines. Our software automatically configures the display and provides users with visualizations that replicate those seen in the control...
