Add LoadLogPopertyTable algorithm tests and documentation

[Nick Draper]

User algorithm has been created, but needs documentation and a test. Feel free to leave out the bacon sandwich bit.

James, Rob,

I've edited he algorithm a bit.

It should now:
1) Load any file type that Load can handle.
2) Not crash with multiperiod data - although values will be from period 1
3) Handle gaps in the file structure (although this can be slow over a network if you choose a range of 100s)
4) Load only a single spectra of the data (if the file loader supports this).
5) Print out the list of acceptable log names if one is entered incorrectly.
6) Make a bacon sandwich at 07:15 each morning, however it will clean up and uneaten leftovers at 07:30
7) Use a hidden workspace for the temporary loaded workspaces, and clean up after itself.

One of the above statements may not be true.

We will include a copy of this in future releases of Mantid

Regards,
Nick Draper

-----Original Message-----
From: mantid-help-bounces@mantidproject.org [mailto:mantid-help-bounces@mantidproject.org] On Behalf Of james.lord@stfc.ac.uk
Sent: 05 March 2013 10:21
To: Dalgliesh, Robert (STFC,RAL,ISIS)
Cc: Mantid Help
Subject: [Mantid-help] More Mantid logging

Rob,
I've made a modified version of that Log extracting algorithm called LoadLogPropertyTable: it's now more general and you can give it a list of log names to read from a sequence of run files. It's similar to Mantid's built in routine "CopyLogPropertyTable" which assumes all the runs are loaded into workspaces, not practical when there may be hundreds of them.

The output is now in a table with the first column being run number.

Numeric time series logs (e.g. Temp_Sample) are averaged over the run (after run_start). Single valued logs are copied direct. It's not yet defined what happens with time series string logs (such as Kicker on/off).

It still uses LoadMuonNexus, but this could probably be replaced with whichever Load routine works and gets the log values - it's probably not necessary to load the data too. (Question to Mantid folks, should I be using a more general one here?)

James.

[Nick Draper]

Some documentation added, needs improving

[Nick Draper]

(In #6669) branch is feature/6669_LoadLogPropertyTable

[Nick Draper]

Moved to r2.6 at the end of r2.5

[Nick Draper]

completed in #6669, therefore duplicate

[Michael Reuter]

Yes, it's a duplicate.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​7514