In this video, I'm going to show
you how to navigate through the new PI Coresight 2014
homepage and how you can now view
PI ProcessBook displays in your
browser. First, to navigate
to the PI Coresight homepage, if you are unfamiliar
with the URL you need to use,
you can check that. If you are on
the PI Coresight machine,
looking in IIS Manager, you
can see here I have Coresight selected and
I'll use the browse option over here on the right.
This opens up the
browser to the URL
and if I want to access the PI Coresight
homepage remotely, I'll just need to replace
localhost with cnm-coresight
which is my PI Coresight machine name.
So I've done that right here.
If you've used PI Coresight
before, looking at this new homepage, you
can see that it has a different look to it.
This new homepage was built on
HTML 5 and therefore it is now
accessible from any device that has a modern web browser.
And the mobile site and
the PI ProcessBook viewer were also
built on HTML 5. As we look at all of the
displays here, some of these
displays, you can see are PI ProcessBook displays.
And others are the more traditional PI Coresight displays.
Perhaps one of the most exciting new
features of PI Coresight is the ability to import
displays created in PI ProcessBook
and to see them in your browser. Let's
take a look at New Green Distilling, one of these PI ProcessBook displays.
So I'm here. I'm viewing it
in my browser and I have the option to
look at different time-ranges at the bottom
or to scroll back in time and look at how my
process has changed.
These PI ProcessBook displays,
have to be saved to a central
share and then they can be viewed like we are doing
right now. Let me navigate back to the
homepage using the PI Coresight
button here.
And let's take a look at the folders
that have the PI ProcessBook buttons.
The folder structure is provided down
here, right now you can see that there are two
different shared folders that are being
monitored by the PI Coresight server.
I can look at which displays are from which
folder. And you'll notice that the
sub-folder structure is even preserved. So I can
do further organization there.
How does PI Coresight decide which
folders to monitor? That's something that's
setup in the PI Coresight administration page.
I'll just navigate there. By adding
admin to the end of the URL,
and we are going to look at
import folder management. Under locations, you
can see the ProcessBook folders
that have been setup. And the friendly name is
what's being actually displayed for that
particular folder in PI Coresight.
You'll notice that while one of these
folders is on the PI Coresight machine as
well, you can have remote folders that are shared too.
Let me show you how once we add a ProcessBook
display to that shared folder, that it
can be picked up and viewed in PI Coresight.
So I have this element relative
PI ProcessBook display file here.
And I'm going to save it to the shared folder.
So I have that saved
and you can see that it's in the shared
folder right here. It's called
ERD Turbine Wind Conditions.
I'm going to go back to the
PI Coresight homepage,
all displays and then I'm going to
see if the PI Coresight picks up
that PI ProcessBook file.
It looks like it hasn't picked it up yet based on the number of displays that I have.
So I'll give it a minute and I'll refresh
and make sure it got picked up.
It's been a minute so I'm going to go ahead and click refresh.
Great.
My latest display has
shown up and I can see it right down
here. I'm actually going to navigate straight to it.
Here is the element relative display that we just
added. And I want to show you how you can
still look at different elements,
since right now it's only showing the data that's
specific to this particular
asset. In order to do that, I'm
going to need to slightly modify the
URL. I'm going to add this to the end.
There is the question mark,
current element equals.
And the rest of it
is just navigating to that element
through my AF hierarchy. This is the name
of my AF
server and I have my AF database,
the parent element and then the
different elements that my element relative display is based off of.
Right now you can see
that I'm looking at the
5th turbine. Let's take a look at the 8th one.
OK, let me
jump back to the homepage.
I'll talk a little bit about how
we can organize displays. You can see right now,
there are 23 displays and even with 23
displays, scrolling down to find the particular
display that maybe I want to look at, and I look at
very frequently, makes me wonder if there is a way that I
can make this faster. One thing that I
can do is I can use the
* to add this display to my favorites. Right
now we are looking at all displays. But let's jump
to favorites. And these are all of the displays
that my specific user
has essentially starred to add to favorites.
I can also look at my displays and the
recent displays.
Some other things that can be helpful for quickly
finding displays is I can use the search here to
search by name. That pulls up the display that we were looking at.
You'll also notice
there is this filter by labels.
And right now, there is a particular
label that has been assigned
called renewable. And this is just a
label that we are using to help keep track of all of the
displays that are related to the renewable energy assets.
And this one is wind turbine status, but
now that I think about it, that element relative display
that has the wind conditions, should
get this label too.
So let's go ahead and add that to that display.
In order to do that, we are going to
edit the display settings
and add that renewable
label.
I'll go ahead and save that.
And then let me go ahead and switch to all displays.
Now if I filter
by the renewable label, I'll get
both of them.
Labels are useful if you are doing the filter
by label but even if I'm looking at
displays that have labels, you'll notice
that I have the option to look at
related displays by just clicking on this too. And
this gets me to that same spot that we were just at.
So these are really great tools that I
can use to help organize
my displays. And if you think about it, these are not
only my displays but other people are also
creating their displays as well that I can see. For
instance, this display was created
by myself but this display was
created by one of my colleagues. The
reason why I can see this display is because they
made this display public which is noted by this
symbol versus
private displays that have this one.
If I want to share a display that I've made
with others, I can edit the display
settings for the PI Coresight displays. And
I can choose between private and public right here.
I'm the display
owner but I could change the display ownership
through this and I can even delete the display
as you can see down here. The other option
that we haven't covered yet is read-only.
Let's talk about
what read-only means in PI Coresight.
Let me open a read-only
display.
And I can tell this is
read-only based on this.
Read-only doesn't mean that I can't do
anything once I'm looking at this display, I
can still delete the trend symbol. And if
I want, maybe I want to focus on adding some new
items from line one,
I can still do all of these
things. What read-only means is if anybody
else goes to this or if I simply
refresh,
the display will return to its original
format just like we saw at the
beginning. Now if I want to
modify a display or make my
own display since maybe I don't want to have this
trend here, I can go ahead and create a new display
using this
button right here.
If Silverlight is
not installed on your machine when you are trying to access
PI Coresight, you will not have this new display
button on the homepage. So make sure that Silverlight is
installed. And the last thing I want to leave
you with is just a really quick look at what the mobile site looks like.
Here we are looking at the site production
overview, and if I want to check out the mobile
site, I'll just need to append an
m at the end of the URL.
It looks different but I can still do a
search here at the bottom. And we are just looking at
the site production overview. So let me see
how it looks in the mobile site so I have a good idea
of what to expect.
So you can see it shows
us these items here. And let me also do
a search for one of the PI ProcessBook
displays that we looked at earlier.
Great, I
can look at the PI ProcessBook displays
too from the mobile site. Hope you feel
comfortable navigating through the new PI Coresight 2014
homepage now and are able to check
out those PI ProcessBook displays on your own browser.