So now that I know how to search
for information, the next step is to visualize it.
So what we are going to do is we are going to
take some results here from our
search of the PI System and bring them onto my canvas.
And you can select one of many things by holding the shift and
the control key. We are just going to look at one thing at a time here.
I'm going to start by looking at
PI tags. And remember, I can filter my results which means I can
exclude results from other areas if I click these filter buttons.
[inaudible] PI tags,
I'm going to remove my PI AF results for a moment.
And what I can do is I can actually
select a couple of these tags.
And by holding the control key,
I'm selecting multiple tags. I'm going to drag them
onto my screen. One thing you'll notice is that
depending where my mouse is, this little icon goes from green to red.
And green indicates that this is a safe
place to put the information. If you try and put it in a
red area, it won't work. So always make sure your
mouse icon turns green.
When I let go here,
I'm given an option on how do I want to visualize this information.
So I could see it as a trend, all the values that I've selected would be in one trend.
I could build a table.
Or I could show them each as a value or
different types of gauges, horizontal, vertical
or radial. I'm going to go ahead and start with the value
symbol object.
So here we go. These are the values
that are in PI currently.
And I can see, if I hover over these
values, I can see some information about it.
I can see the current value. The average maximum and minimum
value for the time-range that I've selected, which in this case is 8 hours.
And I can see the
current time-stamp for the value as well.
And if you noticed that while I was
talking, a couple of these values lit up yellow
and then they went back to white. And when the
value turns yellow like that, that means that it is getting a new
update from the PI System. So this is a
dynamic updating screen. You can
see that, I've got my display looking at current time -- we are looking at now.
So
as these values change in the PI System, that will be reflected
on the display. Now another thing that I can do
here, is I can actually look at some history
on these values just by clicking the trend
preview button.
Again, there is an 8 hour history window
on the 02F100 tag that I selected.
And that 8 hours comes
from the overall time range of the display that I have.
If I choose a different time range on the display,
my ad-hoc trend here will reflect that time range.
In addition,
if I wanted to convert these
value symbols to some other visualization method,
I don't have to remove them and add them again. There is a
way to actually just convert it. You click this little change to another
symbol button. And now if I want to see this as some other
symbol, I can certainly select that.
If you want to see that as a gauge
or maybe I want to see it as a little trend,
I can convert these symbols to any
other object just by clicking that button.
And you'll notice that
CoreSight attempts to maximize
the space for you.
And I'm just going to re-arrange these
so they are back on one line.
OK, so that's PI tags. Now remember I had
hidden my AF results, so I'm going to show those again.
So now I have all the boilers again.
Now what I'm going to do this time, remember
I can drill into any of these AF objects by clicking the
arrows and see all the information about that particular
asset. But instead, what I'm going to do is I'm going
to pull the entire asset onto my screen here.
So I'm going to do this all at once. Again, I'm
going to save value. What you are going to
see is now instead of having to select things one at a
time, I've got absolutely everything that was defined about that
particular boiler. So I've got the
water. I've got the model. I've got the manufacturer.
This is some kind of make up
water flow. And you'll see
that if the name of whatever it is, is longer than whatever will fit in this little box,
the tool-tip will actually
show you the entire name. So this is installation date,
fuel, gas flow and so on.
So that is just another way that you can quickly and easily visualize
information on the screen with a simple click.