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Eliminate the 2-cell-wide blank border around PI Builder data

When I import data using PI Builder, I usually want to filter the data and create calculated columns, but these prove to be more painful than necessary. If I put filters on the columns containing PI Builder data and then click on the filter dropd...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 6 No Status

Minimize the recalculation of volatile cells

Currently, PI Builder data is imported row by row. Each imported row causes all volatile cells in all open workbooks and any cells downstream of them in the dependency tree to recalculate. PI Builder will not import a new row until this calculatio...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 1 Declined

Rename "PIAFBuilder" to "PI Builder" in Excel's add-in lists

The name "PIAFBuilder" still appears in at least 2 places in Excel (see the attached screenshots): File → Options → Add-ins Developer tab → COM Add-ins Please change the name to "PI Builder". "PI AF Builder" was the name of PI Builder before ...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Improve formatting for changedate and creationdate properties in PI Builder Excel Add-in

When querying PI Points within PI Builder we see the changedate and creationdate properties show up in the format "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" which is not the default format that Excel wants for filtering and sorting columns by date/time. However, we do...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Ability to edit "escalation team" member priority in PI Builder

There is currently no way to edit priority for member of an escalation team in bulk, it has to be done one by one in PSE. For users that have 30+ escalation teams, this is a lot of tedious work. it would be nice to be able to pull in the escalatio...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Use default servers and AF database from local KST for first time PI Builder users

As a user, I want my experience to be as seamless as possible when using PI Builder so that I can get the information I need quicker. Currently, PI Builder will Default the servers/database chosen to when a user first opens up PI Builder (after a...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Remove limit on the number of attributes that can be selected in PI Builder

Currently, in PI Builder there is a hard limit on the number of columns that can be selected (it is set to 1023 columns). It makes it hard to work with templates that have over 1020 attributes configured and limits the configuration capabilities.
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 1 No Status

Ability to search for Analyses

It is possible to search for Templates, Elements and Attributes, however the only way to obtain Analyses is to perform a full Element search then filter out the Analyses columns. I have an extensive AF structure with many 100,000 rows. It would be...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Create nested enumeration sets in PI Builder

Enable PI Builder to create heirarchical/nested enumeration sets.
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 No Status

Automatically apply Excel data validation to PI Builder columns

Currently, if there is a problem in the user's PI Builder sheet, the user will not know until they click on "Publish" and see the error messages. To help avoid this, consider having PI Builder apply Excel's data validation feature to columns that...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Builder 0 Declined