Originally posted on UserVoice
As a PI Coresight user I would like the ability to configure the display digits of an AF attribute so I can control how attribute data is displayed on my PI Coresight displays. Right now, for PI Point data references the display digits must be configured in PI SMT with Point Builder. For any other type of attribute there is no direct way to configure the display digits.
A workaround exists for this issue: create a second attribute and format the value using string builder. I would also love to see this feature added. Hopefully this can assist in the meantime.
What would be the desired behavior in something like PI System Explorer? Would you want each attribute to (potential) have its own display digits?
Ideally you would show the same amount of digits as you have in PI Data Archive or to have an option to choose number of display digits for attributes
I've had 5 different customers ask me about this one in the past couple of months. If this could be expedited, it would be amazing.
Having display digits is great for PIVision 2017R2. native in AF is even better. We often use data aggregations to produce low res values that we may apply corrections to and use AF (analytics / formulas) to perform the correction. By this method, we are able to abrogate the need for analytic recalculation.
We still however want the resultant AF attribute to respect the sig digits of the PI tag we are correcting for.
AF attribute displaydigits will be available in the upcoming 2018 release (ETA Q2 2018).
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Steve Kwan
on Jul 28, 2017
It is really anoying to see such 15 decimal digits in a value... I bet on firmly for this proposal.