Properly configure allowed Analytic / Notification host during upgrade
When upgrading Analytics or Notifications, the installer forcefully changes the allowed host parameter in the Configuration database for the application being installed. This should not happen. There should be an additional CLI parameter (and coun...
Tool to check if a PI Point is used in PI AF Analysis
I would like to suggest a tool (a native function or utility) to check whether there are calculations in PI AF that reference PI points. I should notice that is even for the situation that I don't know whether this PI point is an input or output o...
Event Frame Search using Attribute Value Filter should return results if the Attribute contains the specified value anytime during the duration of the Event Frame.
When specifying an Attribute Value Filter, PI System Explorer's Event Frame Search should return any Event Frame where the attribute has an event with the specified value during the duration of the event frame.
Currently, the search only return...
Utilisting exisiting PI Datalink functions within Asset Framework for attributes
PI AF attributes (used for analyses) lacks the ability to filter for conditional values. (e.g. the function PIAdvCalcFilVal). Often data can be represented poorly for calculations and there isnt an easy way to filter the outliers and use that valu...
Publish Element Searches Publicly in System Explorer
Ability to 'Publish' Element searches in System Explorer for all users to see. This ability exists now but the search is only available to user who created it.
This would let users create custom element searches within each AF database that could...
Automatically refresh elements when they are copied and pasted in PSE
When elements are copied and pasted in PI System Explorer, the pasted element should be automatically refreshed (equivalent to right clicking the element and clicking “Refresh”).
If the pasted element is not refreshed, attributes with PIPoint dat...
If you double-click on a UOM class, you will see something like the attached picture. I feel that the "Base Units of Measure" list box should be a table with 2 columns: Base Dimension and Exponent. This would eliminate the ugly ^ and align the exp...
Allow element references to have a different name be defined. This will make it easier to build alternate hierarchies in AF. A new string substitution parameter (perhaps %ReferenceElement%) would also need to be created to distinguish from %Element%.
When defining an internal AF table, i would like to have a description column. That i can use to make the AF model more self-documenting.
Now i need to describe the table and all the columns in the table description which is too limited for tabl...