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Upgrade .NET version support for AF SDK
Please add support for .NET Core to the AF SDK. Currently only full .NET Framework is supported.
143 votes
AdminKevin Geneva
(Admin, OSIsoft)
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Thank you all for your valuable feedback. While we appreciate the interest the community has for this suggestion, we have decided to not pursue this item for now in favor of other high priority work. We realize that this is a popular idea, and we will continue to evaluate its impact for our customers and partners. We will update this idea’s status if we begin to work on this.
For non-Windows environments, our current suggestion is to use the PI Web API for programmatic PI Server access. -
PI AF SDK Linux Support
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.
6 votes -
Expose most of PI-SMT functionalities to AF-SDK
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...
4 votes -
Support AFSDK in Windows Container
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
4 votes -
Provide ability to specify ID (Guid) when creating elements or attributes
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.
3 votes -
Have an option for the PIPointList.RecordedValues Method to exclude the current value if now (*) is specified as the end time
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."
2 votes -
Allow adding one AFEnumerationSet to a different PIServer
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.
1 vote -
Implement Attribute Trait filtering for AFSearch
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.
1 vote -
Allow to change Connection Default Preference for all AF SDK applications
If the user wants his custom applications running on a particular client machine to connect to the secondary server of a collective, he could of course hard-code that. But that becomes impractical if there are a lot of custom programs or they are deployed on several client machines, some of which he might prefer to connect to the primary. It would be more flexible if there was some global setting to control this.
The first thing to do is to change priorities for the primary and secondary by assigning the former a bigger number. This can already be done in…
1 vote -
Sort list of tags returned by AF SDK's FindPIPoints() method
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.
1 vote -
afattributesearch expose value timestamp as fields
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?
1 vote
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