Support for 11.0.1.2 batch scans

[pdudenas]

A common measurement mode at 11.0.1.2 is to queue up scans in a batch, which leads to hundreds of images across 10s of samples in a file series. Rather than loading all the files into a single DataArray, it would be useful to down select the file series based on metadata (sample number, SDD, etc.) before loading them into memory.

[pbeaucage]

So there is already support for this, albeit poorly documented - look at the md_filter kwarg to loadFileSeries. as long as you set the sample ID motor in your run you can filter on a specific sample ID. Let me know if that isn’t working or if I’ve misunderstood the scope of this.

[pdudenas]

Ah yup you're right. The combo of md_filter and file_filter works great. Maybe I'll amend this to add a function similar to summarize_run from the DB loader

[pbeaucage]

That would be great! If you can document this that would be really good as well.