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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about CONNECT products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the CONNECT product managers.

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Ideas

OMF should accept the use of special characters like / : @ ! + % < > ( ) when writing to PI WebAPI OMF endpoint

The OMF 1.1 spec does not allow certain special characters that are indeed accepted in the PI Core system like these here: / : @ ! + % < > ( ) When OMF is used to write to PI Core via the PI WebAPI OMF endpoint, this hinders the migration p...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Understand replicated AF derived element template and elements and dynamically include

Customer has 1 base element template, with multiple templates derived from the base template. Data View is required to include all derived elements from that base element template Request is to dynamically update a data view based upon the assets ...
Glenn Moffett about 1 year ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Include static or slowly changing values for stored retrieval type

Include latest KPI, minimum, maximum value in stored retrievals whereby the value may not have been updated in the requested time period and use the timestamp of the latest event.
Glenn Moffett about 1 year ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Improve throughput

I am not sure if this is a limitation connected to the OMF, WebAPI, or https itself, but in the manual it is given that the maximum message size is 192KB. I am aware that compression is recommended and applied by default by the adapters. For the r...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Make 'add data fields' popup in data view query editor wider

The Add Data Fields window that comes up in the data view query editor is very narrow, and with longer property names that have similar beginnings you may not be able to tell which field you are selecting. There is no way to make the window wider ...
Cynthia Bourne about 2 years ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

OMF: Property Bags

Allow reuse of a set of properties for multiple type definitions in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Built-in weather data adapter

During a Lighthouse project a customer noted that it would be nice if ADH provided a built-in ‘weather data adapter’. This adapter would be part of the SaaS offering and when enabled, would consume weather data from a trusted source into ADH Streams
Guest over 2 years ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 0 No status

index configuration option for last <period> that updates

Configuration option to simplify queries that occur every given period, e.g.: daily, so that querying today, returns a dataset for the previous day.
Glenn Moffett over 1 year ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Access Adapter configuration via cloud (read files from edge)

Browse device(s) view/update configuration for a device verify configuration naming updates - typo, change to naming customize for site specific scenario Push updated configuration
Glenn Moffett over 1 year ago in Software Management / Edge Management Integration 0 No status

GitHub samples need updates for OMF 1.2 spec with PI Web API

OMF 1.2 specification have been out now.However, the current samples for OMF w/ PI Web API (BasicAPI, ComplexDynamic and Bart Ingress ) only feature OMF 1.1 versions.PI Developers will need OMF 1.2 samples in GitHub so that they have a reference t...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 No status