Procedure to Make a SAM Dataset from the DØ Data

[Instructions originally 01 July 2001 - maintained by Wyatt Merritt ]
[updated - 09 August 2001 - by Leslie Groer based on Heidi Schellman's instructions]

1. Go to the SAM Dataset Definition editor at

   http://d0db.fnal.gov/sam_project_editor/DatasetEditor.html

   [ I have made this a bookmark on the Captain's netscape personal toolbar, but this is not guaranteed to be stable against bored captains playing with Netscape, of course.]

2. Click on 'Create New' from the menu on the left-hand side.

3. Fill in the 5 boxes in the top section as follows:

   Definition Name

   The standard name for raw data files from a shift (day, eve, owl) is
        shiftset-xxx-dd-mmm-yyyy
   where xxx = day, eve or owl and the date format is 25-jul-2001
   For example, for the day shift on July 25, 2001:
        shiftset-day-25-jul-2001
   Note that these are hyphens "-" and not underscores and all lower case. If a second data set needs to be defined for the same shift, then append an "b", "c", "d", etc. to the subsequent definitions at the end of the year e.g.
        shiftset-day-25-jul-2001b

   Work Group

   dzero

   Username

   d0run

   Description

   list of raw data runs for <day,eve,owl> shift for store <number>

   Keyword Usages

   shift-runset

4. Use the Dimension Query box to define the data set: for example, if there were 3 good runs in the store, use the query

   RUN_NUMBER 123966,123969,123977

   Unfortunately, this IS case sensitive.

5. Click the Translate Constraints button to see, in the white window below the button, exactly what files will be in the dataset, as you have defined it. If the list of files looks correct, click the Save button to (gasp) save the dataset.

   An example session is shown below for a shift in August.

   

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   Last modified: Thu Aug 9 22:01:57 CDT 2001