Ideas

Run the PI Server within Docker (https://www.docker.com/) to get better economies of scale.  Might already be possible, but need advice supporting this architecture.

It would be great to add read permission to the security table of EF Template. Now you can't deny read access to one specific EF Template. You can only deny access to all templates and to generated EFs, but not to specific template. This can be a...

This is a followup to discussions with Roger Palmen and Rick Davin about their excellent writeups on the topic of EF Duration attributes; see Event Frame duration - easy way in AF2.6 or higher & Duration attribute on an Event Frame - Part 1 , ...

The PI Square blogs on containers are enticing. I am looking forward to rapid deployment of OSIsoft products in containers.

Since using the child attribute "PI Tag Name" to hold the actual tag name is considered best practice in AF, why not encourage it even more by making it an attribute trait? Another option would be the ability to expose the actual tag name as a pr...

The ConfigString of attributes and attribute templates stores information such as references to PI Points, substitution parameters and formula parameters that refer to other attributes or attribute templates, and the source unit (abbreviation of t...

As a user, I want to be able to create/modify/delete PI Points using PI System Explorer, so that I do not have to use multiple tools to manage my PI Points and AF objects.

It is possible to name these files more specifically to convey what to expect when running them: Example 1: AF_SQL_295.bat Example 2: AF_SQL_290.bat Example 3: Vision_SQL_320.bat Currently a single name of Go.bat is assigned to SQL management scr...

It would be convenient if PI Points were automatically created when deploying an element based on an element template for the attribute templates that have Tag Creation set. The current approach is to right click > Create or Update Data Reference.