All ideas

It would be nice to have a substitution parameter to fetch the name of a base template. There is a substitution parameter to retrieve the name of a template: %Template%, but none to retrieve a parent/base template.

If a PI Point doesn't exist for an element attribute as part of a template, allow us to link the tag value to null. Currently if the PI point doesn't exist, the integrator or other client tools will raise PI point not found message. To get around ...

As we adopt more and more AF databases as part of how we do business, the ability to easily maintain them becomes more and more important. We have created documents to detail the business process flow to follow to update AF databases, but these a...

When manually creating an AF Table (i.e., an internal AF table) in PI System Explorer having the ability to specify a NULL value would be beneficial. Not all datasets require a value for each cell and not all tables need to be linked to, or import...

Currently when viewing Time Series Data for a numeric attribute value type (e.g Double, Single) in PI System Explorer, sorting the value column will sort the results alphabetically (e.g. 1, 10, 2, 20, 3...) and not by size (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 10, 20). ...

Transfer Saved searches: This option will allow transferring event frames "saved searches" from one computer to another. For customers who have many search criteria, it is time-consuming to rebuild again on another PC.

I would like to suggest a tool (a native function or utility) to check whether there are calculations in PI AF that reference PI points. I should notice that is even for the situation that I don't know whether this PI point is an input or output o...

A lot of PI servers we work with have a high system load. When we create, change or delete PI Points in PI Builder we have to do a few hundred points at a time and monitor the Pending Events counter from Update Subsystem on the PI server to make s...

When upgrading Analytics or Notifications, the installer forcefully changes the allowed host parameter in the Configuration database for the application being installed. This should not happen. There should be an additional CLI parameter (and coun...

Currently, the PSE Server Options are stored in the registry for each user, with default values coded into the application. This is a terrible design choice. The connection settings for an entity connecting to either a Data Archive or an Asset Fra...