Ideas

If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry. PI...

Some users asked for an enhancement of the documentation/ guide videos regarding syntax for referencing a non-primary element on a PI Point attribute from Event frame templates. The OSIsoft live guide does not provide enough information and/or exa...

‘Outputs at close’ is very powerful and flexible. It allows one to use expression analysis syntax in event frames. Unfortunately, it is only available for generation mode 'explicit trigger', but not for 'pulse', 'step', or 'step continuous'. If y...

When I use datalink, it will not overwrite my cell formatting like background color. When I use PI Builder to retrieve data, it overwrites all cell formatting. Can you please edit your PI Builder code to behave more like Datalink in regard to pres...

PI EFgen interface is built in such a way that it is not possible to configure events without Windows-Admin rights on the machine hosting the interface. This is not relevant in term of security and we would like to let key-users configure events w...

It would be nice if we could reference an attribute or analysis variable to provide the value for the "True for 'x' minutes" parameter, rather than having to hard-code this value. This would be especially helpful in cases where we have numerous el...

In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...

In a large scale deployment, or in an undersized system retrieving AF Contacts, or accessing the subscription tab on a Notification Rule can be slow. A solution is of course to properly size the system or reduce the scale, however there is a compo...

You should be able to urge EFs using more complex search criterias' than the ones provide in the latest PI Server 2018 SP3 (StartTime, EndTIme, EF Template). Most important criteria would be EF categories, but also some honorable mentions: 1. EF ...

Currently the visibility of Event Frames in PI Vision and elsewhere is only limited by the security of those Event Frames. As the security of Event Frames created by Analyses is dependent on the security settings of the Event Frame template (and t...