PI Vision
Welcome to the PI Vision (formerly PI Coresight) feedback page!
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Create on the fly calculations
Be able to create "on the fly" calculations similar to PI ProcessBook datasets.
383 votesPI Vision 2020 introduces new capabilities that allow users to create calculations on the fly within PI Vision displays based on PI tags.
See a demo of these capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/tPYI5wYQBdI
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Support multiple time ranges for trends on a display
Have the ability to support multiple time ranges for trends on a display. For example a trend might be configured as showing the last 8 hours, another one as the last 7 days, and another one the last month.
362 votesPI Vision 2020 introduces new trend configuration options that allow display builders to select whether the trend time range should be based on display time range, duration/offset from display end time, or custom time range.
See a demo of these capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/_tjfdGo_WTo
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Support renaming of AF elements and attributes
PI Vision does not support the renaming of AF elements or attributes or the movement of them within the hierarchy. After renaming or moving these objects, symbols referencing them will show No Data in PI Vision.
353 votesIn PI Vision 2020, you no longer need to update your displays when AF elements or attributes have been renamed or moved within the AF hierarchy. A console utility will optionally run on upgrades that update your previously created displays to support renaming.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Ad hoc trend with multiple selected attributes
Build trend with multiple traces based on a display data (for instance, from a table). PI Vision user should be able to select multiple items on the table and then trend them on a single ad-hoc trend to compare. The ad-hoc trend should appear in a pop-up window (which you can move) in the same browser tab and the user should be able to switch between the main screen and the ah-hoc trend window to drag and drop more attributes from tables and value symbols on the screen. It's very important to see both ad-hoc trend and the main display…
243 votesPI Vision 2019 introduces new ad hoc trending capabilities that allow users to
quickly select data from across displays to add to an ad hoc workspace where you can analyze data and investigate issues.For more information on this new functionality check out this video on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/rLu2E2qc8Ds
For additional information on PI Vision 2019 please see the release announcement here: https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=kA01I0000007AdxSAE
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Trend: Multiple Trend Cursors
As a process engineer, it is helpful to see values at several points of interest on a trend at the same time.
235 votesIn PI Vision 2019, trends on displays and in the new ad hoc workspace now support multiple trend cursors for viewing and comparing data values.
For additional information on PI Vision 2019 check out the release announcement here: https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=kA01I0000007AdxSAE
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Allow sharing a display with edit permission
As a display creator, I want to give other users edit permission on the display so we can collaborate in creating the display and so that other users from my team can make needed changes when I'm not available.
227 votesPI Vision 2020 introduces new display access capabilities that allow users to share edit access to their displays using AF identities, similar to the functionality of sharing read access.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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View Display Usage
Administrators would like to have a way to know how often a display is used, and by how many users on a display management page.
214 votesIn PI Vision 2020, there is a new report related to how often users access a display and who has accessed it in a given time period.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Trend: Show data item descriptions
Be able to view the tag/attribute descriptions on the bottom of the trend the same way that you are able to in ProcessBook. For those of us with large DB, it is very important to have this functionality.
197 votesIn PI Vision 2020, we added labeling options to the trend symbol (and other symbols) to show element/tag/attribute name, tag/attribute description, or custom text. This allows you to configure the trend legend to show data item descriptions.
For more information, see the PI Vision 2020 release announcement here:
https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000031641If your feedback request includes the ability to change the positioning of the legend in the trend symbol, please subscribe to the feedback item here:
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Convert ProcessBook display to PI Vision display
Can we have a tool to convert ProcessBook display to native PI Vision display? So we can leverage the full features of PI Vision displays,.
163 votesThe PI ProcessBook to PI Vision Migration Utility has been released.
This utility allows you to easily migrate PI ProcessBook displays to PI Vision, producing native PI Vision displays that are editable and immediately usable in OSIsoft’s latest visualization infrastructure.
To learn more about this new utility and to see it in action, check out this video on our YouTube learning channel:
https://youtu.be/yOzZJKvjXrQFor additional information on the PI ProcessBook to PI Vision Migration Utility please see the release announcement here:
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Create Display Folders & Manage User Access with Folders
Have the ability to create folders for displays as a way to organize them. Be able to add and delete displays from the folders. Manage user access to displays (read vs read/write) by the folders.
156 votesThe PI Vision development team has completed work on display folders in PI Vision 2017 R2. Upgrade to PI Vision 2017 R2 to take advantage of this and other key new features. You can read about what’s new in PI Vision 2017 R2 in the release announcement: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Releases/RL01278
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Multistate: Make visible/invisible based on data item value
Change graphics based on a data item value. For example enhance the multistate functionality so that is it possible to make a symbol visible when a tag/attribute value is equal to 1 and invisible when equal to 0 (or another condition).
141 votesIn PI Vision 2020, new multi-state capabilities were introduced including the ability to hide symbol visibility.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Multistate: Change text color
In multistate, we are able to change background color.
We would like to be able to change text (letters, words) colors for text and value symbols with multistate.128 votesIn PI Vision 2020, new multi-state capabilities were introduced including the ability to change text color on the value and text symbols.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Trend: Support Trace Markers
Support trace markers on a trend like in ProcessBook
122 votesIn PI Vision 2020, new trend symbol enhancements were introduced including the ability to show data markers of recorded values.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Copy or migrate displays between systems & reassign data items
Be able to copy displays between different Coresight systems. One example might be a dev --> test --> prod scenario. The migration needs to include the reassigning of data items to a new PI-AF server and/or PI Server.
But there are other cases where you want to reuse a display that's already been created but it's in a different Coresight system.
Note: This was previously Enhancement 64766.
107 votesThe PI Vision Display Utility was released with PI Vision 2017 and allows PI Vision administrators to move displays between PI Vision servers and update data items on displays to facilitate migration between development, test and production environments.
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Trend: Allow custom titles
Allow specifying plot titles for trend symbols, similar to how ProcessBook allows specifying a plot name.
104 votesIn PI Vision 2020, new trend symbol enhancements were introduced including the ability to specify a custom plot title.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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Specify the font size for a symbol
it would be really useful to configure the size of both values and text by entering a number for the size of text
96 votesThe PI Vision development team has completed work to allow users to specify font size for text and value symbols in PI Vision 2017 R2. Upgrade to PI Vision 2017 R2 to take advantage of this and other key new features. You can read about what’s new in PI Vision 2017 R2 in the release announcement: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Releases/RL01278
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Trend: Edit trace name in legend or be able to add a description
Edit the trace name or add a description in the legend of a trend in order to:
1) Make clear the description of the Attribute in the trend
2) Use an abbreviation for the attribute description in the trend legend
3) Use a different language in the legend while respecting the attribute name (for example, an attribute name is written in English in PI System Explorer but we would like to see Italian in the Coresight trend)93 votesIn PI Vision 2020, new symbol enhancements were introduced including the ability to add element name, attribute name or description, or custom text as labels for trend, value, vertical gauge, horizontal gauge, and radial gauge symbols.
For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here:
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AF URL attribute object in PI Vision
PI Vision should have a object that gives functionality to open URL´s from AF attributes.
It is possibel to use URL´s in AF attributes, it is even possible to open them from system explorer.
PI Vision should recon that it is a URL when you drag it into the design pane and automatically create a text object with the URL.92 votesThe PI Vision development team has completed work to allow URLs in value and table symbols to act as live hyperlinks on displays in PI Vision 2017 R2. Upgrade to PI Vision 2017 R2 to take advantage of this and other key new features. You can read about what’s new in PI Vision 2017 R2 in the release announcement: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Releases/RL01278
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Library of standard graphical symbols
Make a library of standard graphical symbols available. Things like pumps, motors, valves, etc. so that they can be used to make process mimics using consistent images.
91 votesThe PI Vision development team has completed work on a new Graphics Library in PI Vision 2017 that provides a standard set of process and industry symbols can be used to create process diagrams and uniform representation of assets. Upgrade to PI Vision 2017 to take advantage of this and other key new features. You can read about the key new features in PI Vision 2017 in our release announcement here: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Releases/RL01216
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XY Plot
Support an XY plot that is able to visualize data in another dimension other than time.
User story: As a process engineer, I want to trend one attribute against another (like depth) SO THAT they can visualize the data in context of the other attribute rather than by time.
Need in Coresight XY plotting abilities : mainly like in processbook + overlays of design/signature curves from AF tables. In addition overlays of differents XY curves from event frames would be great. This is really something missing to Coresight to be able to monitor pumps, compressors,…
86 votesThe PI Vision development team has completed work on the XY Plot in PI Vision 2017 R2. The XY Plot is now out of CTP and has improved performance, an updated configuration experience, and new formatting options. Upgrade to PI Vision 2017 R2 to take advantage of this and other key new features. You can read about what’s new in PI Vision 2017 R2 in the release announcement: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Releases/RL01278
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