[Animl-develop] Allowed Values in AnIML

[Dominik P. <dom...@ni...>]

Hi everybody,

 
I hope everyone is doing well.

At the last AnIML Working Group meeting, we discussed wanting to allow 
multiple, single "allowed values" for parameter values in the technique layer. 

Instead of multiple, single "AllowedValue" values, we might do better to allow 
ranges of "AllowedValue" values.  For example, with temperature it would be 
better to allow this "AllowedValue" to range between a minimum value and a 
maximum value.  To specify a single value we would have to put the value in 
both, Min and Max fields or maybe the Max field would be empty. But this is a 
design detail that is not so important at this point.
The usage of that could be for vendors to specify their devises in their vendor 
extensions if they want.

On another subtopic, shouldn't we add a flag (attribute) to "AllowedValue" to 
reverse it's sense and let us list non-allowed values?
This wouldn't cost us much, and it gives us more flexibility in designing 
techniques. To promote better understanding, we might choose to rename the 
"AllowedValue" to maybe "RestrictedRange" or "QualifiedRange."

In addition, do we need  a similar notation for vectors?

It would be nice to get some more ideas about this.

Hope to hear from you, 
  
Dominik
 
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Dominik Poetz 
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