output folder datestamp format should be configurable

[philipstarkey]

Original report (archived issue) by Philip Starkey (Bitbucket: pstarkey, GitHub: philipstarkey).

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The datestamp format for the experiment output folder has changed in v2. This means new shots created do not match the folder hierarchy we have used for the last three years. It is:

• A pain to rename all the folders as our files are now spread over an archive share
• A pain to have to click through the extra folder level the new format introduces when manually looking at/loading already created shot files.

I thus propose the data stamp is configurable, specified in the labconfig ini file. I recommend this just follow standard Python datetime syntax so that people can specify whatever they want (or nothing at all)

Marking this as critical as we won't use it on a production machine in our lab until this can be configured.

[philipstarkey]

Original comment by Chris Billington (Bitbucket: cbillington, GitHub: chrisjbillington).

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• changed state from "new" to "resolved"

Fixed in 25c9b57d85d9bc7a3ccbee4bee41aaa6bc562cdf

The shot output folder is now configurable in labconfig. If not present, it defaults to %Y/%m/%d (with slashes according to OS) It is as parsed by time.strftime() Extra percent signs are needed as escape character in labconfig due to percent symbols having special meaning in the config files:

[runmanager]
output_folder_format = %%Y-%%b/%%d

(leading or trailing slashes are irrelevant and will be stripped)