PI Vision
Welcome to the PI Vision (formerly PI Coresight) feedback page!
We created this forum to hear your ideas, feature suggestions and feedback on PI Vision. Please suggest your most important features and design change ideas on this site, and vote for your favorite ideas.
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Offline Display Management: Allow PI Vision displays to be imported and exported
There is a need to be able to export and import PI Vision displays so that displays can be managed offline. This would allow transferring displays between systems that are not connected, taking backups of displays, versioning displays, sharing displays with customers, vendors, and third-parties, etc.
443 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces new capabilities that allow PI Vision displays to be exported to and imported from an offline PI Vision display file.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, please see the release announcement here:
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Events Table: Show attribute values
Be able to compare attributes from multiple similar events against each other in the events table symbol.
User Story: As a process engineer, Lalit wants to compare attributes from similar events to one another in a table and sort by the columns of the table SO THAT he can use the attribute values to compare the events to one another.
396 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces new capabilities that allow users to add event attributes and related asset attributes to the Events Table.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, please see the release announcement here:
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Create on the fly calculations
Be able to create "on the fly" calculations similar to PI ProcessBook datasets.
382 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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Asset-based (AF) Calculations
Expand the tag based PI Vision Calculations introduced in PI Vision 2020 to support simple AF attribute based calculations (addition, subtraction, etc.).
249 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces new capabilities that allow users to create asset-based calculations on the fly within PI Vision displays.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, 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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Trend: Show cursor values while dragging
As a process engineer, while dragging a trend cursor I'd like to see the process values. Currently, I can only see the value once I drop the cursor, I need to see the values WHILE dragging the cursor so that I can quickly identify problems in my process.
This feature was available in previous versions (PI Coresight) and in ProcessBook.
220 votesAVEVA PI Vision 2022 introduces new functionality to show trend cursor values while dragging.
See an overview of new AVEVA PI Vision 2022 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/apE-B8hkOy4
For additional information on AVEVA PI Vision 2022, please see the release announcement here:
https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000040161
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Bar chart
As a PI Vision user, I want to compare data items (PI Tags or AF Attributes) in a graphical manner using bar chart so that I can perform my analysis more efficiently.
219 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces a new bar chart symbol.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, 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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Wrap text in PI Vision table
Wrap long string values (word wrap) in a table so the entire text can appear on the display.
202 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces the ability to wrap text within the Table symbol.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, 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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Event Comparison Display - show markers
Currently, Event Comparison trend has 0 configuration options. I need the ability to show markers or a scatter plot similar to the pop up trend/ad hoc workspace.
169 votesPI Vision 2021 introduces new capabilities that allow users to show markers in trends within their Event Comparison displays.
See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w
For additional information on PI Vision 2021, please see the release announcement 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:
https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000031641
