Analysis templates are useless if one need to adapt the analysis for some elements, for example in my case I need to change the "True for" clause in an Event Frame Generation Analysis, but I can't because it is created by a template.
Change the default triggering for Analytics from Any Inputs
Leaving the default to Any Inputs for expression analytics can cause some performance issue as a calculation could end up triggering multiple times per second if there are several inputs. Since this is the default, some users may not take the time...
Check box option at attributes to handle PI tags that are bad and questionable
This suggestion is on how you manage the input tags into calculation that at some point it returned bad value (like I/O Timeout, Bad Input, Snapfix, etc...) or became questionable. These tags will make your calc at analysis become "Calc Failed". I...
Extension of Rollup Scope without Excessive Computational Cost
If something I'll call lists are implemented following the model of categories (that is an element can belong to multiple, arbitrarily named entities) and rollup is extended to allow that as an option in addition to the parent element, this would ...
Translate the descriptions of functions in PI System Explorer
See the attached picture. The picture also reveals other parts of PI System Explorer that are not translated. The picture and the idea for this suggestion come from https://pisquare.osisoft.com/s/feed/0D58W00006XNrBuSAL.
Allow event scheduling for PI Point DR attributes that use RelativeTime or TimeRange
Currently it's not possible to use attributes that are based on a PI Point Data Reference with RelativeTime or TimeRange settings as triggers for analyses with event-triggered scheduling. You get the "No valid triggering inputs found" error. The r...
When using the recorded values function in Analysis, Time weighted totals and averages assumes that the data is continuous and not discrete. This creates issues with data streams that are both discrete and require time weighting functions. Ideally...
AF Function Call to test for existence of a PI tag
Some Analytics fail due to a tag not existing. It is possible to test for a Bad value via the BadVal() function, however, this does not work if the tag does not exist. Consequently the equation will not run. This caused me many hours of debugging ...
Automatically apply Excel data validation to PI Builder columns
Currently, if there is a problem in the user's PI Builder sheet, the user will not know until they click on "Publish" and see the error messages.
To help avoid this, consider having PI Builder apply Excel's data validation feature to columns that...
Include PI Server as a column option in PI Builder
A PI Server column would be a useful check to confirm which PI Server results are being published to, especially when a PI Admin has a drop down list of many PI Servers/Collectives.