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105 VOTE
Status In development
Categories User Experience
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 18, 2022

Show descriptions in tooltip

In PI CoreSight 2014, when working with a raw Tag or attribute, one could hover over the tag and the description would appear in the tooltip. I loved that functionality. However, in the upgrade, this functionality is lost. Please reinstate it for the next patch or upgrade.
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jun 10, 2025

    This item is in development for the PI Vision 2025 release. Users will be able to configure personal settings to turn on/off tooltips as well as the options to show data item description and PI Point path for PI Point data reference attributes in the tooltip.

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  • Lucas José Calderón Ponce
    Jun 11, 2025

    I hope you add as well for an Attribute, the ability to see in the tooltip the PI Point associated with it as well its description.

  • Oerjan Sikveland
    Apr 8, 2025
    1. Distribute underlying information regarding an AF attribute. We use the AF Description field for detailed information regarding the attribute, example which measuring standard is used for a water level. This especially important for height above sea level.

    2. On the hovering box, display a new line with “Description: “ & text value

    3. All users

  • Brian brian.e.roberts
    Feb 21, 2025

    1)What problem-- on a dashboard or "trend page" or other PI Vision display, you often only have tag name showing along with multiple other tags. having description or Unit of Measure or ?? in tooltip would help user understand tag instead of going to a different source to look up info.

    2)how feature should work. the tag search tooltip shows description when hovering over tag. hovering on a Symbol shows tagname for most. Description should be included tooltip. showing UOM might all be appropriate for many symbols.

    3) who would benefit-- users everywhere.

  • KRickards
    Aug 22, 2023

    This is a common complaint of users in my organisation. When functionality such as this gets removed it makes it very difficult to convince users to move away from ProcessBook. It's hard enough searching for PI Tags as it is in PI Vision as you can't see the description beside the tagname. Not having the ability to quickly see all details about a variable on a display is quite annoying.

  • Lucas José Calderón Ponce
    Jun 5, 2023

    Hello,

    Our users are requesting this feature as well

  • kin0919
    Aug 18, 2022
    Our users would like this re instated as well.
  • ehoffman
    Aug 18, 2022
    I agree with the need for tag descriptions in Coresight. I know AF cures this by having friendly names and descriptions but we are not going to have every single tag mapped out in AF and for those scenarios it would be truly beneficial to have the tag descriptions available in coresight.
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    I would like to have the desciptions for AF elements also visible when hovering over it in PI Coresight 2016.
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    I would like to have the desciptions for AF elements and PI Tags in PI Vision
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    Our users would like to have the descriptions for PI Tags and AF attributes in PI Vision as well
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    Fully support!
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    In PI Vision 2019 when hovering over tags/attributes in the left hand search/tree window the description text is presented if there is one. However, the same behavior should be also when hovering over tags/attributes in a trend symbol and other symbols. Often, the description text gives additional valuable information to the user about the measurement point.
  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2022
    This feature is useful for the user
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