2. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-DataLink New Features of 1.7 1997 PI Users’ Conference Joe Mishaga & Ling Mok

3. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-DataLink v1.7 Description of what’s new Demonstrations of features Question and answer session

4. 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

5. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI on NT and UNIX Features Sub-second timestamps New Point Types  Int32  Float64 (double precision)  String tags

6. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Sub-second Timestamps Excel only  Lotus 1-2-3 does not support sub-second times 1 millisecond resolution Snapshot Values Archive Values  Compressed  Sampled Data Not supported in Calc and Filter calls

7. 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

8. 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

9. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of PI 3 Point Types

10. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Dynamic Array Size AutoDetect of Excel version Retrieval up to 64,000 Values  All PI-DataLink functions

11. 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

12. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of Dynamic Array Size Calculated Value, and Calculated Data

13. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference New User Interface for 1-2-3 Dialog box for each macro  No need to remember macro syntax  Auto-filling of argument in dialog box Paste macro results Paste macro functions

14. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Demonstration of Lotus 1-2-3 Dialog Box

15. 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

16. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Questions?