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...
Use %Duration% with Formula Data Reference as Best Practice for EF Duration Attribute (AF 2017 R2+)
This is a followup to discussions with Roger Palmen and Rick Davin about their excellent writeups on the topic of EF Duration attributes; see Event Frame duration - easy way in AF2.6 or higher & Duration attribute on an Event Frame - Part 1 , ...
It is possible to name these files more specifically to convey what to expect when running them:
Example 1: AF_SQL_295.bat
Example 2: AF_SQL_290.bat
Example 3: Vision_SQL_320.bat
Currently a single name of Go.bat is assigned to SQL management scr...
Please remove the database level write access requirement to modify objects below the database level. This will:
1. Prevent users who should only have subobject write access from modifying the database.
2. Make the security model more intuitive ...
Add an option to mark the PI Point Data Reference to not be updated when a Create or Update data Reference is issued
Currently when a PI Point Data Reference receives a call telling to Create or Update the Data Reference, it will resolve the String builder and then lock that Data Reference so that if someone changes the template, that change will not be replicat...
Suppose the following scenario: a user has 2 AF databases (a development and a production one), both containing same version of a template. The user deletes a few attributes and analyses from one element template (development), exports the xml and...
In AF, right clicking an attribute reveals an options called "change display UOM", but it's not doing what is expected.
To change the displayed UOMs (if, for instance, we want to see "km/h" instead of "m/h" in PI Vision), we need to do the follow...
PI AF Linked Tables used for Time-Series Data with OOO events
As AF Table Lookup Data Reference is configured with a time column in order to support cashing, edits of the following types to the table data will not be picked up by AF Clients:
1- Update the value of an Existing record/Event
2- Add a ne...
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...