Chris Manhard
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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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PI Builder can import from a list tags. Select the point attributes you want via the "Headers" option, fill in tag names in the the spreadsheet's name column, and click the "Retrieve" button in the tool ribbon (it was called Refresh in earlier version of PI Builder but performs the same function).
While PI Builder does not support all the search options of the advanced tab of the PI Tag Configurator search dialog, it can perform the searches you mentioned. Any point attribute can be searched on but this does required typing the point attribute into the search text box. As you begin typing in the UI search box, it will help you with the point attribute names. "location1:3" or "creationdate:>2019-1-1" are examples of valid searches. Multiple clauses are AND'ed together. As of 2018, you can search on snapshot values as well: "Value:>100", timestamps: "timestamp<*-1h" and quality (IsGood, Questionable, Substituted, and Annotated)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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The OR clause is planned for AF 2018 SP2 and will be available in PI Builder, although it requires typing of the OR clause directly in the search box - for example: "Template:T1 OR Template:T2".
In AF 2017 and later, you can also include multiple templates IF you can identify them by name with wild card using the TemplateName filter. For example "TemplateName:T*". Note that this clause must be typed into the to search box - there is not an independent control on the search form.
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3 votes
This has been answered in a previous entry.
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Can you clarify? In PI System Explorer, you can specifically choose which elements you wish to export by multi-selecting them in either the "Child Elements" tab - or - doing a search and multi-selecting them in the results grid. Right click on one of the selected elements, and export.
You cannot, however, choose to NOT export the child elements of any particular element you have selected in PSE. So, for example, it would not be possible to export a parent element and only some of it's children.
Within the AF SDK, this is possible by using the PIExportMode.NoReferences flag and passing a specific list of elements (the NoReferences would also cause no Analyses, Notifications or associated Templates to be exported)
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15 votes
For the spans implementation, let’s consider implications on PI, OCS and EDS. E.g. how does the data source represent spans and/or how does the OMF application recognize these spans? Who / what uses the span data? How does the thing using the span data represent a span and associated data? Do we have scenarios with non-time based spans for OCS and EDS?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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You can get the top level root via the %\Element% substitution parameter. Getting other levels is not currently possible without additional string builder's which can copy down the attribute as suggested
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3 votes
Can you provide more details on this request?
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Can you explain why you need access to this dialog for the built-in data references? That is, why is this dialog more useful than the built-in dialogs?
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14 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Just making sure you are aware you can add these columns via the settings drop-down in the grid view of af elements, eventframes, and most other "top-level" objects . Once you add the columns, the setting will be remembered. They are not currently shown by default, however.
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2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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I can see that the "Clear to Empty Cell Boundary" option is not always being honored in the new import case, only during "Retrieve". We will try to address that in a future release.
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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I can see that the "Clear to Empty Cell Boundary" option is not always being honored in the new import case, only during "Retrieve". We will try to address that in a future release.
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Under the Settings menu item, for the Retrieve tab, there is a setting to control the addition of the two row/column border. If you change the setting to "Clear to Empty Cell boundary, and then also leave the header row blank past the last PI Builder utilized column, this should achieve what you want.
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25 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Is this specific to PI System Explorer, PI Builder, or PI Vision? PI Builder does have this option. PI System Explorer does not.
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5 votes
With the current implementation of PI Notifications, any event frame or referenced element attribute values can be included into a notification email.
If you’re not able to accomplish that, please contact tech support.
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In PI System Explorer it is possible to query for the effective permission of a particular user. Can you provide more details on what other improvements you’re requesting?
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Can you be more specific? AF has been making improvements to the security setting dialog each release of AF Client. AF 2.9 will also have the ability to edit identities and mappings of PI Data Archive and AF Server within PI Builder, allowing users to more easily share identities and mappings between servers.
A future enhancement request we are aware of is to allow users to see the effective permission of a particular user or identity within PSE or eventual web-based configuration tool.
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67 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris Manhard
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Is there an expectation that the description reflects the substitution pattern automatically after initial creation?
For example, Name substitution patterns defined in the template are applied on initial creation, otherwise, must be manually re-applied.
Also, for this to work at the attribute level, AF would have to enable attribute override of description - which is currently not possible (although often requested and on our radar). There are performance and storage implications for this feature that have to be considered. We are cautious when a simple feature such as this can lead to surprising and drastic changes in performance and scale.
Dynamic re-evaluation of description substitution is difficult because it impacts features like search which work best with a fixed index-able value.
Beginning in the 2018 (2.10) version, PI Builder will give you an option to append tags to the existing list in the spreadsheet after performing a search.