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My ideas: PI Interface for UFL

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Support Regex engine in the message filters

It would be nice to have regex matching and replace in PI UFL ini files. Also, would be nice to have anything other than ASCII encoding support (ex UTF-8..with/without BOM, etc) Use cases: ex. we need to parse timestamps where year has either 2 o...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 No status

UFL Interface - Increase UFL designer sample data file size limit beyond 50 KB

The UFL designer currently limits the sample data file size to 50 KB. This requires users to truncate their text files until it is below this limit.
Paul Kim over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 No status

PI UFL Interface get data from FTP Server

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Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Allow the UFL interface to delete PI tag data or provide some other supported automated method of deleting PI data from a collective.

There is no way to easily delete data in a time range if you want the changes to occur on both the primary and secondary data archive. It seems the UFL interface would be good to use to do this. You could provide it a tag name and time range and t...
Heather Boehler over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 3 No status

PI UFL ._OK file rename should be after parsing to avoid data loss during shutdowns

My understanding of UFL (confirmed by tech support) is that it will rename files to ._OK extension before loading lines into memory. This means that if the service is stopped (such as during an update) and it has not completely read into memory an...
Davin Ross 8 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Please add a DAYOFWEEK function to the UFL interface

Can you please add a DAYOFWEEK function to the available functions in the UFL interface. This will greatly assist with the handling of daylight savings transitions (e.g. first sunday in April) as there is currently no easy way of determining the ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

UFL Designer should include a test mode to verify INI behavior with a data file.

One can do this, to some extent, piecemeal with functionality the UFL Designer already has. However, it's a very manual process and does not actually have a way to show what data would be sent to PI for a particular file. An explicit test mode or ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Option for PI Interface for UFL to purge read-only files

Create an option to allow the PI Interface for UFL to delete files with the read-only attribute.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL Interface can read input files from non-UNC paths such as Azure File share

I would like the PI UFL Interface to be able to directly read from input files that are in non-UNC paths such as Azure File share, so I do not need to periodically copy the input files into another path.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL Interface to extract data from csv files from multiple sub-folders within the main folder.

In case of csv files in subfolders within Main Path for UFl, PI UFL Interface should be able to search the csv files with placeholder and extract data from csv files from multiple sub-folders within the main folder.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status