Comment 21 for bug 1935037

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> > I'd be perfectly happy with a replacement mechanism. I.e. upon adding a
> PV
> > to the group, replace non-supported characters with '_'.
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> QSRV does not compute group or member names automatically. So I think
> this is a request for whatever person or tool is creating the group
> definition JSON for you.
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no tool, simple substitution + template
https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/ecmccfg/blob/pva/db/Beckhoff_1XXX/ecmcEL1008.substitutions
https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/ecmccfg/blob/pva/db/generic/ecmc_binaryInput-chX.template

in this case there is no suffix, but you get the idea.

> > There are potentially hundreds of PVs to add to pva-groups.
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> Hundreds? Please let us know how this works out.

What exactly do you want to know? I assume that pva/QRSV is tested and
benchmarked? I even more desperately hope that this was done with more than
just 'hundreds' of fields in groups!