Ideas

For unitless values you can assign a unit of measure by using the Convert() function. To further convert this to another UoM in the same class you need to nest another Convert() function. For example, Convert(Convert(3600, "s"), "h")) It would sim...

Consider implementation performance analysis service statistics in AF Explorer which is now performed in a complicated way by exporting data to Excel, rearranging and viewing in a pivot table. It would also be useful to be able to retrieve that da...

When creating a trust for the Buffer Subsystem with the Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager, the Wizard auto-populates the IP Address of the machine. Include an option to edit the IP Address that is auto-populated for machines that have mu...

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the "Permissions for" box always lists all permissions that can possibly be set within PI AF, regardless of the selected objects. Instead, only permissions that apply to the selected objects...

The idea would be to provide a feature which alllows a PI System Admin to get a report of all the rights that are granted to a user or a group of user for all the PI system product which have a link with security

As an ICS systems engineer, I need to understand and easily configure Authentication and Authorization settings to secure the PI System from the point of data collection to data access and remote display viewing.

I want to give access to only some attributes on some elements to some users. Currently, the smallest granularity in AF Security is at the element, not attribute level. Sure there are some workarounds like creating derived templates, but it would ...

As a user of Asset Analytics, I would like to have a rollup calculation that would return the count of ELEMENTS belonging to a certain category. The current count function only returns  the ATTRIBUTE count.

I want to be able to link an EventFrame to the Primary Parent of the Element the EF analysis is defined on. E.g. i use a child element to a Unit to contain the logic to detect and generate downtime events. However, i want the downtime event to li...

As a user configuring notifications I want to include categories in my formatted message so that I can contextualize the alert based on data already in the system.