The Learning team has published a new playlist on the OSIsoftLearning YouTube channel on PowerPivot and PI System Data. Users are integrating their data with some of the Microsoft Business Intellegence tools and these new videos teach how to use PowerPivot with the PI System.
Here is the first in the series.
The video series is presented in steps that are broken into the numbered sections below. You can jump directly to each numbered topic from links on the descriptions in YouTube.
Step 1 Prepare the PI AF Structure
- Choosing an AF Server
- Organizing a PI AF Server
- Importance of Using Templates
Step 2 Create Transpose Functions with SQL Commander
- Load the PI AF Structure with PI SQL Commander
- Resources for building detailed queries
- SELECT queries for PowerPivot can be general
Step 3 Create Views with SQL Commander
- Start from default View of a Transpose Function
- Remove unneeded columns from default View
- Q: What are Views? A: Named queries
Step 4 Import Views with PI OLEDB to Excel
- Starting with a View from SQL Commander, Open PowerPivot
- Import to PowerPivot: Other Data Sources: OLEDB/ODBC
- Build a PI OLEDB connection string
- Enter 'SSPI' for Integrated Security
- Specify PI System & Test Connection
- Select PI AF Database
- Review Connection String
- Select Tables and Views to Import from PI to PowerPivot
- PI Data is now in PowerPivot! It can be refreshed anytime
The playlist can be found here.