Asset Framework (AF)

It's possible to inadvertently change the tag attributes for production tags if they are used with an attribute that has tag creation set. It would be safer if there was a lock that allowed new tags to be created, but blocked tag attribute changes...

Allow specifying primary attribute category in AF and allow to use following options in the "Group by -  Category" menu in PI System Explorer: - show attributes in all categories - show attributes in primary category only (hide duplicate attr...

Having the ability to query cloud-based data, web data, or SharePoint data would further leverage the ability to bring in various data sources. Having the ability to do a web call would allow us to connect to so many more data sources. Sharepoin...

Add ability to automatically create children and grand children when creating elements from a template that has children and grand children templates When creating the Asset Framework structure, it would be nice to have the ability to automatical...

The UOM database is currently cluttered with SI-prefixed units. To help clean this up, there should be a UOM prefix database. Then instead of having J, kJ, MJ, etc. in the UOM database, you would just map the SI prefix set to J. Also, instead of ...

Make it configurable to show the "Description" of an element (or any other field configured by the user) when hovering over an element in PI System Explorer instead of only showing its path.

It would be great in AF to have multi tree-type hierarchy feature to be able to copy by reference a parent element (without its child elements attached to it). See the attachment

Element/Attribute names are designed to be user friendly names.  However, sometimes, the PI Tag name syntax only contains a portion of the Element/Attribute Name.  It would be nice to have a substring function for Substitution Parameters...

In PI System Explorer, when using "Export to File..." and with "Include All Referenced Objects" selected, please allow one to exclude UOM's from the XML file.  Due to the UOM database being server wide and not just for AFDB.