Editing or adding of Annotation/Comment to Event Frame
Currently, PI Builder does not support editing or adding of annotation/comment to Event Frame. The suggestion will easily allow users to backfill or edit annotation/comment in bulk.
Ability to Manage Global Notification Formats from PI Builder
Currently, there is no button in PI Builder which allows users to bring in Global Notifications Formats. The button would allow users to read in current Formats and then users would be able to Publish edited formats or newly created formats. This ...
When editing PI Points, PI Builder does not return any error if one of the headers is wrong or misspelled. Simply, nothing is edited for that header and you only find out at a later time when looking at the PI point. It would be useful if PI Buil...
PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework.
Benefits of PI Builder using tables:
• filters ar...
Limit rate of published changes through PI Builder
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...
Allow PI Builder to be used with Windows Store Application version of Excel
If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry.
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Include the "Primary Parent" checkbox functionality under PSE's "Change Reference Type" dialog in PI Builder
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...
Provide PI Builder Functionality In A Google Sheets Add-on
A significant number of companies are moving from the Microsoft Office suite to "G Suite" (Google). This move takes customers from MS Excel to Google Sheets, and they would like to retain PI Builder as a functional add-on.