Please add support for .NET Core to the AF SDK. Currently only full .NET Framework is supported.

As we know there are 2 major competitor for cloud technologies that is Microsoft and Linux destros. If we want to use Linux docker image or PCF Linux image to connect AF SDK, we don't have any provision for this as of now because AF SDK does not support Linux OS. If we support this then most of cloud customer attracts to use AF SDK in their organization.

I have to admit that I am surprised and disappointed not seeing any real good administration methods in the AF-SDK. Of course there is Powershell but what I would really want is a nice way of getting all the information I see in SMT and more within C#. There are so much valuable information we could gather and analyse. We could also automate tasks etc...

how to do it: https://pisquare.osisoft.com/community/developers-club/blog/2018/05/21/spin-up-af-client-container

statement re: not currently supported: https://pisquare.osisoft.com/message/138235-is-there-a-way-to-create-an-afsdk-docker-container

Provide ability to specify ID (Guid) when creating elements or attributes in AF via the AF SDK.

When replicating data from an external system to AF, we need to be able to use the same GUID that has already been established.  This will allow us to easily query data from PI Web API because the GUIDs can be directly translated into WebIDs without having to perform lookup queries first.

Presently, the AF SDK's FindAFEventFrame class allows users to search by Element Template or Event Frame name using properties like AFElementTemplate, NameFilter, or Query (https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-powershell/page/html/Properties_T_OSIsoft_PowerShell_FindAFEventFrame.htm).

For some AF structures, users want to sort event frames by the Event Frame Template - adding a property to search EF templates within the FindAFEventFrame class would make that possible with AF SDK.

As an AF SDK developer, I would like to be able to export AF Server Libraries (https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/af-sdk/page/html/T_OSIsoft_AF_AFLibrary.htm) to .xml files or strings in order to easily share them with other AF Servers.

An example of use case would be libraries hosted in a central/master AF Server that must be periodically pushed to site AF Servers. These master libraries would be used to enforce AF design practices across the enterprise.

Currently it seems that the only option is to create a temporary AF Database to import the library into.

With the PIPointList.RecordedValues Method, using an end time of * will include the current value. This is unexpected when the method "Returns a list of compressed values for the requested time range from PI."

Currently there is a bug that prevents searching for analyses by PlugIn, and also returning the PlugIn type for an AFAnalysisSearch via the FindObjectFields method, even though the documentation states that this should be possible.

A post detailing the problem can be found here:
https://pisquare.osisoft.com/s/question/0D51I000052DBo9SAG/the-afanalysissearchfindobjectfields-call-throws-an-error-when-using-plugin-as-an-object-field?t=1615824758779

FindObjectFields Documentation:
https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/af-sdk/page/html/M_OSIsoft_AF_Search_AFSearch_1_FindObjectFields.htm

If you run

pIServer.StateSets.Add(aFEnumerationSet);
afEnumerationSet.CheckIn();

The set will not be checked in if the PIServer of the AFEnumerationSet is not the same as the PIServer you are checking into.

Instead you have to do:

AFEnumerationSet newSet = new AFEnumerationSet(setToCopy.Name);
foreach (AFEnumerationValue aFEnumerationValue in setToCopy) newSet.Add(aFEnumerationValue); destinationSets.Add(newSet);
setToCopy.CheckIn();

Please automate that functionality.

I would like to perform AF Searches that return results based on Attribute trait filtering. More specifically, I would like to search for Elements that contain Location trait Attributes, so I can query more easily for assets that have a Location trait. I currently rely on Element Categories or Element Template filtering, but those filters do not always match the search results I am looking for.

Add a method that can be used to sort the IEnumerable<PIPoints> returned by AFSDK's FindPIPoints() method. This method should allow the option of sorting on any desired PI Point Attribute.

Maybe I'm missing it, but after performing an AFAttributeSearch I would like to use the binning extensions for summaries or aggregate periods, much like the EventFrame examples. However the fields exposed by AFAttributeSearch do not include the actual event timestamp.

Can OSIsoft either update examples on how this is possible (sadly all examples are across eventframes whose search does expose datetime fields in StartTime/EndTime), or enable retrieval of Timestamp as a field for AFAttributeSearch?