Streaming snapshot values via PI to PI interface
I recently noticed that something appears to have changed with how our PI server is receiving its data. This server receives its data from our DCS based PI server via a PI to PI interface....
View ArticleHow to find out what location and pointid to use
Hi, I'm just a beginner with the PI System. I created new tags in Excel and for the location 1-5 and pointid fields I just put '0'. However, now all the tags are shown as 'Pt Created'. When looking...
View ArticleUse of PI Steam Functions in AF
Hi Pi Users, I've recently started using the PI Steam Functions in some ProcessBook trends via the PI calculations, i.e. StmSI_TsatP('12lba51cp901_xj60'*100) returns the sat temp for the tag...
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PI Coresight 2014: Error searching PI Point
Hi, I can't search PI Point on a new installation of PI Coresight 2014. I've received the following error: An error occurred while searching: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error...
View ArticleButton Command that Will Select Specific Elements of Interest
I currently made a PDI display that displays about 60+ Heaters in an element realitive format. I would like to create a button on my Overall Cycle display that: 1) Opens the component specific file...
View ArticleSlowness using Processbook
Hello,I'm with a doubt.Many people using the ProcessBook at same time with heavy displays can slow the PI Server, especially if they are using several DataSets and Performance Equations on displays?...
View ArticlePI Coresight 2013
Could you please guide me how to embed a coresight display in SharePoint. Say for e.g. when I 've link in sharePoint, the link should open a coresight display.. This is what I need. Could you please...
View ArticleMultiples instructions in one PE
How can i add more than one instructions in a PE? i would like to use typical separator like ";" between two instructions like c programming language. Is it possible or PE was thought for one...
View ArticleVBA Compiles While Typing - Results in Compile Error and Lockup
I'm a new PI user, but experienced with VB and VBA. I have a PI display to which I want to add some VBA code (to be executed by buttons on the display). When I start to enter the VBA code, it tries to...
View ArticleRate of drop in temperature.
how to calculate rate of drop in pi process book. like i have to calculates rate of drop in temperature last 30 min. how can i do it in process book.
View ArticleProcessBook: Value/Multistate adds double trace to Ad Hoc trend
I have values that I added multistate functionality to so there is a visual indication if there is bad data. However, I am encountering a minor annoyance whenever I try to make an ad hoc trend (using...
View Articlebulk create tags in PI tag Configurator
Hi everyone, I have about 10,000 tags I need to create for my PI Server. I don't want to do this one at a time, so I'm wondering if there's a way to mass create the tags in PI Tag Configurator. I know...
View ArticleNoob Questions
Hello All, I am a newbie to OSI PI development and I am coming from the Microsoft SQL Server world. So in order to differentiate between the relational data and PI data, here are a few questions from...
View ArticleTag recalculation by using Datalink / PI SMT
Hi All, I want to recalc the tag to generate the history data by using Datalink or PI SMT. Can you please let me the process for this? Thanks & Regards, Amit
View ArticleDatasets feeding PI Calculations - is this possible?
Hi all, Looking for some advice again - I would like to know if the following is possible using Datasets and PI Calculations in ProcessBook - if possible, without a Performance Equation. I have 3...
View Articledbo.AFEventFrame SQL table - starttime & endtime values
getting starttime and endtime from a simple query from the AF database using an ODBC. The value looks like this 635489769811330108. The fields are bigint. How do I translate start and end times into a...
View ArticleTagMin Dynamic Time
Looking at the expression, ('METAL_LVL'-TagMin('METAL_LVL','*-7h','*'))/'CYCLE_TIME' , is it possible to have a dynamic '*-7h'...i.e... " '*-" & Cycle_Time+1 & " ' " ? I want to create the...
View ArticleAF/PEs: Manipulation of Timestamp of Result Values
Hello, I have the request to somehow manipulate the timestamp of a value that is a result of either PE or an Analysis. Is this possible? An example would be that I calculate a value at 7:02:00 AM...
View ArticleApproach to "watching" > 2000 PI tags
Hello everyone, I'm very new to PI programming and my team has been tasked with "watching" about 3000 tags in PI for value changes and then sending those value changes to a monitoring web service....
View ArticleEvent Frames Naming Pattern - how to retrieve an attribute value
Hi, for Batch events using Event Frames, I am trying to create an event frame naming pattern that has an AF Event Frame attribute (‘Lot Number’) value imbedded in the event name. The goal is to make...
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