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Product AVEVA™ PI Vision™
Categories Administration
Created by Justin Jackson
Created on Oct 18, 2023

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Automated Backups of PI Vision Displays

I've seen a few requests similar to this one but wanted to submit this with a little more specific info. I am aware of the ability to script the backup/exports of PI Vision displays using the PI Vision API and Powershell for example, but as i understand it in order to restore/import the displays that must be scripted as well. Seems like would be better to setup a scheduled task somewhere within PI Vision (on one of the Admin pages for example) that could automate the backup/export of PI Vision displays to a directory or file share using the pdix format. Then when necessary could either restore/import the displays using the PI Vision API or better yet using the PI Vision Display Utility. Not all users can use the scripted methods for the import/export so would be a lot more user friendly to configure the scheduled display backups in the PI Vision web UI then use the PI Vision Display utility to restore the necessary displays.

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  • Joe Staublin
    Aug 28, 2025

    The PDIX format appears to be a zip archive of two files. One of the files is the result of the example PowerShell scripts. The other is just a JSON file which is pretty easy to decode. It wasn't that difficult to modify the example to output PDIX files. Using the display Rev number allows you to create backups of multiple versions.

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