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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. 

Ability to copy and paste top level elements in PSE without the children.

The AF Server Connections dialog is similar to the Network Manager Statistics plugin in PI System Management Tools. For administrators, it would be useful to see the security identity string for each connection to the AF server. This will help adm...

According to this, VSTO Runtime is included with PI AF Client for the sake of PI Builder. The installation of VSTO Runtime also causes the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable to be installed as well. However, accordin...