If you have a PI Point attribute with auto tag creation and you want the attribute UOM and PI Point engunits to match, you have to define it twice; once in the attribute UOM field and a second in the attribute configuration string, e.g. engunits=m3. If there was a substitution parameter for the attribute's UOM, you could use it in the attribute configuration string, e.g. engunits=%AttributeUOM%.
This feature is long overdue. This was identified as a critical piece of missing functionalities back with AF 2.1 in ~2010. I don't think this will be added/implemented in our lifetime. I surely hope it will.
Hello, it would be nice to have the option to use substitution parameters for the UOM in the configuration string of attribute: like:
\\%server%\%@.|tagname%;UOM=%@.|sourceUOM%
we have Templates applied to difference Motors from different vendors, the UOM can change from one to another , these source UOM are saved in attributes ( using Tablelookup).
this is really very important as now we need to do that in a custom script all the time.