Now, our flagship product for
looking at process data is PI Processbook.
So, as you can imagine, we do have fairly strong
integration between ProcessBook and these Notifications.
So, before we take a look though, let's just take a
look at exactly what I am currently subscribed
to, because that's -- I do not want to confuse the issue
here by, by what we are really looking at.
If I remember correctly, and I will just go from top to bottom
of all my Notifications -- ... I, I am
logged in as the Administrator, and I am,
I am subscribed to this CDT Warnings.
I am subscribed to myNot1. That was
the sample that we created. I am not subscribed
to the Sample Performance Equations and I am not
subscribed to that. So, I should be able to see
these two show up in My Notifications in
PI ProcessBook. Now, you will notice you can actually go
out and find other Notifications, even the ones that you are not
subscribed to. So, ProcessBook is flexible enough to do that.
So here's a copy of PI ProcessBook. If
you have installed the Notifications Client,
then this -- and that's something you are going to have
to do on the machine that's running PI ProcessBook. So you do have to
install that Notifications Client. If you recall, that was one
of the three things you could choose to install during the installation.
So you only have to install that part of it.
You go, then, into View and then
Notifications. And this is going to bring up something that should look
fairly familiar now. It's that same Notifications
Viewer, the grid that we saw before. And, it
defaults to showing you My Notifications. But, as you,
as you will see, you can actually look for Notifications that are in
other Sections, in other Elements, or based on other
templates, etc. Now, now notice, this
is the List of Notifications we are currently
subscribed to as the Administrator.
These are the ones that are recent, the last two hours.
I can also, of course, look at the ones that are currently Active,
etc. And then, once I,
I look at these, or I have, I have searched for these,
then I can choose which one I would like to see.
And you will notice, it actually changes what you are looking at
over here in ProcessBook, assigning the
Start Time and End Time from that Notification
to the displays that are up on your screen. So this drills
down right into the data that you might be interested in. So that was only
a 9-minute long Notification.
I click on this. This one was 16 hours long. You see we passed
the timestamps over here. Now,
let's look at a couple of other really nice features
in terms of just being able to drill down
into things. Let me -- let's say I am not looking at any
specific displays in Processbook.
I can actually look at,
at an Ad Hoc Display based on the Inputs
in the Notification. So, for example,
here, I can just do a right click and choose
Open Associated Displays. Now, what that means,
an Associated Display would be a display that's associated
with the Notification through that
Content Tab in Notifications, or
if there are no displays, look what happens.
It just goes out and it finds the, the trigger. This
is the Element or all the Element
Attributes that are referenced in the trigger, and it decides to
trend those. And it trends those using whatever time
interval is associated with that Notification.
Yeah, as you can see here, as I change.
Now, that was an example of
a Notification that did not have any associated Content.
But, if you recall, we do have a Notification
that does does have some associated Content. Let's take a look
at how that would work. First of all, I am going to need to subscribe
to that. That was my other Notification, the one
called -- let's go back and take a look at it.
Yeah, that was the one called Status Notification.
Now, I am not currently subscribed to that as the Administrator,
so what I would have to do is go ahead and subscribe to it,
and I
think what I will do also, just to keep this display clean,
I am going to unsubscribe to this,
that CDT Warnings.
I will go ahead and check both of these in.
And now, down in ProcessBook, all I need
to do is Search again. So, right now, we are
finding CDT Warn... Warnings and myNot1.
But, if I retrieve
again, using that same criteria, you know,
click on this Search, it's going to find what you are currently subscribing
to. And, I am still subscribed to myNot1.
But now I am subscribed to Status Notification,
not that other one, the CDT Warnings
Okay. Well, let's, let's
go back and look at some other options here instead of just
My Notifications. We can also
sor... or look at these by the Contact.
So, by Contact, what we are talking about
is this List of Contact here. You know, I can go out and
find Notifications that are
subscribed or being associated with other Contacts.
Now, another choice is
I can go out and find, if I have implemented Categories,
I can find these by Category, I can find them by template.
We have not really discussed Element Temp... or Notification
Templates yet. We are going to go into that in a different video.
Now, the last thing that we can search for is
to Search by Element, and by that, what we mean
is you can go into your database, you can go ahead and
find any of these, you know, these Elements
that may have Notifications
associated with them, and then, you will find all the Notifications
associated with that Element. So, in this case,
Monitored Tags, we actually have that, that one Notification
called CDT Warnings. That is associated with
Monitored Tags. Status Notification
is not. So, when I update this,
what we see is -- well, the Status
Notification disappears, the CD War... T Warnings
reappears, because now we are finding it by this Element
here, that Element that's listed right here,
Monitored Tags. Now, I can go out and actually find
this for any of the databases, so
you are not limited to just the AF Database --
you know, the -- to, to one AF Database. This is, this will
allow us to go out and find any of these AF
Databases.