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Description
At the previous NOBUGS conference, the Sardana community presented the outcomes of a collaborative workshop on continuous scans (SOLARIS 2023) and outlined a midterm roadmap to address emerging experimental requirements. Since then, it has been refined through annual Sardana workshops (MAX IV 2025, ALBA 2026), reinforcing a collaborative, incremental process driven by real use cases across facilities. This contribution reports on the application of these developments in real environments.
Several previously identified challenges—such as synchronized shutter control and multi-technique experiments combining detectors operating at different rates—have seen significant progress, with some already deployed in production. In particular, the integration of Blissdata into Sardana, together with multiple synchronization mechanisms and native shutter control, is being introduced in beamlines at ALBA and MAX IV to enable more advanced data acquisition and composition workflows. These developments also foster collaboration between facilities, showing how Blissdata, originally developed within the Bliss framework at ESRF, enables sharing client tools for data writing, processing, and analysis across facilities.
In parallel, improvements include enhancements to mesh scans, evolution of the scan API, a new experiment configuration GUI, and native support for complex trajectories control, moving towards more flexible and interoperable workflows.
