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Status Completed
Categories Symbols
Created by Dan.Louchbaum
Created on Jun 28, 2023

Default Visibility Selections for Value Symbol

Please allow the default visibility settings on a symbol to be managed by the PI administrator. In particular the Value Symbol is a common item where the default visibility settings are unwanted. Currently the developers assumption is that users want all options seen: Label, Units, Timestamp, Value. The reality is that “Value” is almost always the only thing needed from the Value symbol.

For experienced PI Vision users at our company that use the "Value" symbol frequently.. The first thing they always have to do is right-click, format, expand visibility, uncheck "Label", "Units", "Timestamp". That is 6 extra clicks that could be avoided if we were allowed to set a global default to the "Visibility" settings on the object and uncheck them for all users.

For inexperienced PI Vision users, they may not know how to perform those steps and their values show up messier with all the extra items they did not want. The value becomes buried in between the label and the timestamp and is harder to standout.

Because this enhancement could be considered a preference, then I would propose the default selections be configurable/managed by the PI Admins on a per server setting.

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