Ticket #5473 (closed: worksforme)

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Unable to add Facility via Facilities.xml

Reported by: Peter Parker Owned by: Peter Parker
Priority: major Milestone: Release 2.2
Component: Mantid Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Tester: Owen Arnold

Description

To reproduce:

  • Add the following to Facilities.xml: 
<facility name="FACILITY" FileExtensions=".nxs,.raw">
   <instrument name="INST"> 
      <technique>Technique</technique>
   </instrument> 
</facility>
  • Create a new instrument definition file for "INST". Simply copy and paste the IRIS definition for example, and change "IRIS" to INST in the file name as well as inside the file itself.
  • Start up Mantid. The new Facility/Instrument will not appear as a choice in View->Preferences->Mantid.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by Nick Draper

  • Owner set to Peter Parker
  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by Roman Tolchenov

There is supported.facilities property in Mantid.properties file which has to be updated for a facility to be seen. I am not sure that we need this property because it is only used in two places to fill in combo boxes.

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by Peter Parker

  • Status changed from assigned to accepted

comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by Peter Parker

  • Status changed from accepted to verify
  • Resolution set to worksforme

Closed as per Roman's comment.

comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from verify to verifying
  • Tester set to Owen Arnold

comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from verifying to closed

Yes, Roman is correct here.

comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by Stuart Campbell

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6319

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