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Status No status
Categories User Experience
Created by Michael Wahle
Created on Dec 16, 2022

PI Vision Context Switching: Allow for all Attributes to be displayed between Elements that have differing Excluded Attributes

To summarize, context switching with a table only shows the same attributes in the base element. See below for the use case example:

I have a plant that has three "Rooms" which are all using the same Template. Each "Room" has a different amount of Attributes that are in use, but in the future a particular "Room" may physically add one of the Attributes.

As it stands now, for example, the Template has 6 Attributes defined. "Room 1" is using only 2 of the Attributes and the other 4 are Excluded for this room. "Room 2" is using 3 of the Attributes with the other three being Excluded for "Room 2"

Over time, the "Room" template will have additions, and this template will be used over and over as I build out the plant.

Using PI Vision, I want to define 1 table that will display all non-excluded attributes of a particular "Room". Currently the only way to do this, is to have a dummy Element where all attributes are not excluded, and to create that table with this dummy Element. Then I can switch between all other "Rooms" and get all the Attributes in the list based on what Attributes are not excluded on the particular "Room"

If I were to add new Attributes to the Room Template, I would need to add the new Attributes to the table manually from the dummy Element.

I would like to have a check box/option for the table such that it will intuitively know to reference the Room Template and understand to list ALL non-excluded Attributes for that particular Element that is in the Context Switching dropdown.

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