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A way to configure a notification rule to send to additional contacts when the severity status changes without creating a new analysis. Customer use case: Customer wants to scan devices. If a device fails to respond (I/O Timeout) over a short per...

Would like ability to use substitution parameters in attribute template names.  Using PI-SNMP for Linux file partition data. We need to know the storage index# in AF since they vary server to server.  Want to provide users doing searches...

Formula data references do not support string value type attributes (e.g. if stringattribute="Yes" then "X" else "Y"). One workaround is to create an analysis on the element template with the same logic mapped to an attribute on the element templa...

As an end user, I would like to be able to change the timezone referenced in PI System Exporer from client timezone to server timezone. Something similar to the "PI Data Archive Time Zone"  setting found in PI DataLink would be helpful.

PI-DataLink allows for filtering of aggregate calculations, for example to get the average inlet temperature of a compressor when the turbine speed is > 1000 RPM. This is not possible with AF. The KB01120 article does not work and is very mess...

As a PI Administrator of a PI System with complex security requirements, I need to set up different default permissions for various users so they can create tags that automatically have the proper security instead of having to rely on a process/pr...

Some interfaces such as PI Modbus allow the polling of a 64-bit signed integer value or a 64-bit unsigned integer value. Yet the database does not allow you to store these values in their native formats. You must store them as a 64-bit floating po...

Right now BadVal can only check one variable or Expression.  So if I am evaluating an expression with say 10 inputs, and I want the expression to output NoOutput() if any one of the 10 inputs are BadVal, then I have 2 options right now. ...

At the moment i have to conifgure attributes like description or uom in PI Tags and also in the corresponding AF attribute. it would be great if i could use substitution paramertes like point.uom or point.descriptor in PI AF to fill configure Attr...

Currently, AF search results can only be sorted by a single field. It would be useful to have the capability to specify 2 (or more) SortField values so that the order of results can be guaranteed in the result of a tie. For example, being able to...