1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-DataLink New Features of PI Users’ Conference Joe Mishaga & Ling Mok
1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-DataLink v1.7 Description of what’s new Demonstrations of features Question and answer session
1998 PI System Users’ Conference New Features Support for PI on Windows NT and UNIX advanced features Up to 64K events retrieval for Excel 97 New capabilities in Calculated Value and Calculated Data functions New user interface for Lotus 1-2-3
1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI on NT and UNIX Features Sub-second timestamps New Point Types Int32 Float64 (double precision) String tags
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Sub-second Timestamps Excel only Lotus does not support sub-second times 1 millisecond resolution Snapshot Values Archive Values Compressed Sampled Data Not supported in Calc and Filter calls
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Support for new PI3 Point Types Existing PT Types Int16 = 0 to 32,767 Float16, 5 significant digit accuracy New PT Types Int32 -2,147,450,880 to 2,147,483,647 Float32, single precision, 7 significant digits Float64, double precision, 15 significant digits
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Support for new PI3 Point Types (cont.) String Tags Dynamic Text Operator Entered Messages Batch Messages from DCS / Operator LAB Comments
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of PI 3 Point Types
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Dynamic Array Size AutoDetect of Excel version Retrieval up to 64,000 Values All PI-DataLink functions
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Calculated Value/Data ArcMean calculation mode simple arithmetic average non-time weighted Display of percentage good time during which tag has good (non digital state) values; ie: shutdown, overrange, bad quality, archive off-line Indication of the validity of the results of a calculation
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of Dynamic Array Size Calculated Value, and Calculated Data
1998 PI System Users’ Conference New User Interface for Dialog box for each macro No need to remember macro syntax Auto-filling of argument in dialog box Paste macro results Paste macro functions
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of Lotus Dialog Box
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Future Enhancements Excel Auto-fill of dialog box arguments Cell references for PI Server name Time-Filtered Expression Amount of time the expression is True for a user specified period Future support for 32 bit Lotus
1998 PI System Users’ Conference Questions?