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If I want to create an analysis that generates an event frame in PI System Explorer, often times it's useful to check the values of variables to make sure that a calculation is being done as expected to mitigate error on my end, and make sure I am...

The analysis tab in PSE can take quite some time to load if there are thousands of elements being referenced in the input attributes. This is rare for Expression, Event Frame and SQC analyses, but not as rare for Rollups. Ideally the tab should lo...

In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...

In a large scale deployment, or in an undersized system retrieving AF Contacts, or accessing the subscription tab on a Notification Rule can be slow. A solution is of course to properly size the system or reduce the scale, however there is a compo...

You should be able to urge EFs using more complex search criterias' than the ones provide in the latest PI Server 2018 SP3 (StartTime, EndTIme, EF Template). Most important criteria would be EF categories, but also some honorable mentions: 1. EF ...

As a notification user I want to see a table of all the attributes and its values on the target element in my email, furthermore when I add or remove attributes I want to see it automagically updated in my email without me having to reconfigure th...

Use category of an attribute for the name substitution parameter of the PI point data reference

Users would like to be able to pull in the instrumenttag of a PI point into an attribute that is referencing it.  This isn't currently possible because the AF server and any attribute aren’t aware of most properties of the PI point itself, so...

Avoid having to manually reconnect to the AF database in PSE whenever a client computer returns from standby after the network connection has returned. Other PI client tools such as SMT are able to automatically re-establish connection under these...

XML Export/Import supports modifying and renaming of objects (the latter when the Preserve ID option is selected). It would be useful if this could be extended to support deletion of objects, e.g. deleting an Element, Template, Analysis etc that e...