I want to show you how the find
works in PI CoreSight. What we are doing right
now is we are on the home page of the PI CoreSight Server.
This is just a webpage, and what I can see
here are all the different displays that I have access to.
Some of these are global displays or public displays that
someone has made and shared. You can see that by the little
globe icon here in the corner of
each one of those thumbnails. And some of these are my own private
displays that I've built and haven't shared with anybody yet.
To show you how find works, what I'd like to do, is
start a new display and I do that by clicking the new button.
And what I have here is a brand new display.
So this is the canvas,
this is where you will drag information on so that you can visualize
it, and you can interact with that. Before you can do that,
you actually have to do a find. You have to have some results.
So over here on the
left hand side of the screen is our find window. And what we
have is we have a dialogue box up here where we can enter in a search string.
And then these are where our results
will display. So there is a couple of different ways that you can do
find. The first way I'm going to show you
is just by doing an actual text string search.
So I'm going to look for some
boilers. I'm interested in one of my boilers. And so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to actually type in a
wild card at the beginning, but I don't need one at the end here.
PI CoreSight will automatically assume a wild card at the end of your text string.
So I'm going to search for
boiler. And the way I do that is by clicking the little magnifying glass.
Now when I click search,
what is happening is PI CoreSight is actually going out and searching
my entire PI System. It is searching through my PI
tag database. it's also searching through my PI AF database.
As well as any other PI CoreSight
displays that I may have created or have
access to with this word boiler in it.
So you can see, we have some
results here. And the first thing that we have are some PI AF
elements or sometimes we call them assets.
Now you'll notice that these are
different colors, these results. When it's a blue color,
that means that it's an exact name match.
So you can see this is called boiler 235, boiler 210.
And those definitely have the word boiler in them.
Now some of these results are yellow, and that
generally indicates either a description match
or perhaps in the case of a PI AF element,
that could be an attribute
about that particular asset or it could be a child of that asset
that had to do with boiler. And in this case,
you can see cracking process has two
children elements that are called boiler.
Now as we scroll through our results, let's
see what else we can find. OK, so here
we have some PI tags. And you are going to
see that the icons are yellow, which remember, that means
that it's a description match and
not an actual tag name match. And here
are some blue results, these are name matched.
And then of course, we have a PI CoreSight display that is also an
exact match. So that's one way that you can do a search.
Now the other way that you can do a search, a more
targeted search, by searching
and navigating through the trees. So what I'm going to do is
I'm actually going to remove my results by clicking the refresh button here.
OK. And so now you see my results
are gone, it forgot my search.
What you'll notice here is the name of my AF Server.
So you can actually
navigate through your PI AF
Server to do a targeted search. So for example,
if you had 20 different boilers
and you knew the boilers that you were interested in were
in a specific area, you might drill that into that area
first before you did your search. So let's do that.
So we are going to click and we are
going to browse through our AF elements here.
And I'm going to look at
Houston and we are going to look at the
cracking process and all of a sudden now I can see that I have a lot of
information, including boilers but other things.
What you'll notice too is that at the top of my screen,
I have these little bread crumbs. So if at any point, if I've gotten
too deep or I just want to go somewhere else, I can always
click on one of these bread crumbs and reset my context.
So if I wanted to go back to Houston, maybe I wanted to
look at the milling process for example,
I can always change and then now I can look at the information
that is defined about the milling process. And if I want to
go deeper into one of these boilers, I certainly can.
And these are all the attributes to find for boiler 209.
So those are some of the different ways that you
can search your PI System with PI CoreSight.