I have one specific complaint but when I’m creating/testing a new event frame it is the worst. When backfilling a single analysis, the start time and end time boxes will throw an error and not allow the you to start the backfill if at any time the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Add the ability to set the trend axis range in the PI System Explorer tool. We are currently allowing users to navigate the asset hierarchy in PSE as it provides greater flexibility in understanding the data.
AF: More Easily Accessible Attribute Properties Window
The Attribute Properties window has information that is useful for troubleshooting and Custom Data Reference development. For Data references without configuration screens defined, clicking "Settings" will bring up the Properties window.
However,...