When creating PI points through AF Templates, there should be an option to "Write Default Value after Point Creation", or some other way to initialize the value of an automatically created PI tag.

Right now, there is no way to replace the Pt Created value with a default value upon creation, and the "Default Value" in the AF Template serves no real purpose for PI Point Data References.

Use category of an attribute for the name substitution parameter of the PI point data reference

Currently managing attribute templates which can create tags is very laborious. It is an issue particularly when dealing with different security settings for tags. Improvements suggested would include

• have the ability to create and maintain multiple 'profiles' or templates for tag creation - which for example might be used where different tag security settings are needed


• enable the ability edit an attribute template's PI Point creation settings in PI Builder

There needs to be better ways to create and manage element templates for assets that are similar (but not exactly the same to one another).

For example, reactors might have 50% of attributes consistent across all reactors. 20% of the attributes might be specific to one type of reactor, and another type has other differences. But they are all reactors that are related from a search, analytics, and visualization perspective.

As a user, I want to be able to perform clipboard "cut" operations in PI System Explorer, so that I can remove an object and store it in the clipboard for later use.

Use geolocation to find assets around the location of another asset.

For example, find all wells within 2 miles of well 1043.

When writing an expression analysis with many variables, if there is a missing ")" or an extra ")" then the whole analysis will not evaluate with error "Equation not set." This error does not help the user identify where the issue is. If PSE would back-light highlight the variable row in question or include the variable name within the error these would be much easier to identify and would save a lot of headache.

In the attached screenshot is an example of "equation not set" where the issue is visible in the screenshot, but difficult to identify.

I would like to have an out of the box way for an attribute to display a pipoint exdesc. One thought would be able to have a substitution parameter that would point at the pipoints exdesc.

As AF Table Lookup Data Reference is configured with a time column in order to support cashing, edits of the following types to the table data will not be picked up by AF Clients: 

1- Update the value of an Existing record/Event

2- Add a new record/event with Timestamp prior to the end of stream (the last retrieved event)

Enhancement required is for PI AF Clients is to pick up the mentioned types of changes.

Currently, the PI Point Array data reference allows the Source Units field to be set, but this setting applies to all points in the array. It would be better if the Source Units field could be set individually for each point in the array for conversion to the Default UOM.
Use case: we have multiple PI Points we want to put into an array, but some have source units of lb/h while others have source units of klb/h. We would like to enter the source units individually so all values in the array are converted to the same UOM (klb/h).

This is really a bug/security risk; but the support team has requested that a "Customer Voice" be raised.

Support passwords longer than 15 characters in the PI AF Table Connector.

Would like ability to use the value of an attribute array values when doing name substitution like %@attribute1[0]%

Currently, AFUpdatePlugInConfigurations.exe will update the Attribute configurations of an entire AF Database as specified in the /Root parameter.  When dealing with large AF Databases where there were only a few changes made, this is an expensive call.  Please modify the /Root parameter so we can specify which Element and whether Child Elements (/IncludeChildern) are included should be in scope of the update.
 
Example:
C:\Program Files\PIPC\AF\AFUpdatePluginConfigurations.exe "/Root:\AFServer\AFDatabase\ParentElement\ChildElement" /IncludeChildren /CreateConfig
 
Cheers!

As a PI admin I would like to be able to generate reports based on the AF audit trail.  Currently the audit trail can be accessed manually using the audit trail utility tool and manually output a file, though I would like to be able to query the audit trail to generate reports.

There is a function in AF named TagEU(). This function returns the EU of the PI Tag, NOT the EU of the element. This presents problems in analysis if the Units in PI are not spelled the same as they are in AF or if the unit in AF different than the PI Tag.

Please add a function ElementEU() which returns the EU of the element. It should use the same EU from the element that Convert() uses.

List all PI Points in error from PI AF Attributes in PI System Explorer.