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PI Interfaces

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Create 'Close Event Frame delay' setting

When you create PI Point Data Reference attributes in event frame templates that are used by PI Batch Interfaces, the PI Batch Interface will be responsible for resolving and capturing this PI Point data as soon as it closes the corresponding even...
Rafael Batista 3 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Include MSXML with the latest version of the PI Interface for OPC XML-DA

The Read-Only version of the PI Interface for OPC XML-DA (1.7.3.40) does not contain the msxml4 library necessary for communicating with the OPC XML-DA. The workaround is to install the Read-Write version of the interface and then the Read-Only ve...
Randy Giguere 5 days ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 No status

ICU> When the ISU instance is removed for a server, other interfaces were not properly detecting that and were behaving as though there was still an ISU instance for that server

ICU> When the ISU instance is removed for a server, other interfaces were not properly detecting that and were behaving as though there was still an ISU instance for that server. There are documented known issues related to the slow ICU loading...
Guest about 1 month ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Have the FTB Interface support multiple stop events for Unit Procedures

There are instances where a batch must be manipulated creating two Unit Released events in the event file. The desired behavior for the PI FactoryTalk Batch Interface would be for the second end time to overwrite the first end time when data is be...
Guest 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface not truncate the trailing "-#" index (e.g. UnitProcedureName-1) at the end of a Unit Procedure

Some FactoryTalk batch processes have overlapping Unit Procedures with trailing indexes. Because the trailing index is truncated it results in overlapping Unit Procedures with the same name which are then merged. The desired behavior would be for ...
Guest 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface capture "Active Step Change Commencing" events as event frames

Some FactoryTalk batch processes require "Active Step Change Commencing" event to be part of the batch hierarchy however the PI Interface for Factory Talk Batch starts event frames only on [EVENT] = "System Message" or "State Change".
Guest 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Subsecond Cropping for Improved Timestamp Handling

The OPCDA interface currently can only handle subsceonds by ignoring them as mentioned in "Ignore Subsecond Timestamps" under PI Interface for OPC DA - Data Handling settings. However there are use cases where users would like to simply limit the ...
Mohammed Shahin 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Make PI ICU to support gMSA for Service creation

gMSA are the way of having secured logins for windows services and we try to spread the awareness to switch from standard user accounts to these account type. However as most of the PI applications supports to define the gMSA during installation o...
Ondřej Kafna 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

Improve collection of Event Viewer logs in PI Interface for Microsoft Windows Event Log

The PI Interface for Microsoft Windows Event Log can capture Event Viewer Logs. Some of the logs in sub-folders cannot be captured by the interface. This includes logs that store PI information, such as PI Vision with the log: OSIsoft-PIVisualizat...
Ted Birky 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status