Help menu

The Help menu contains three commands:

• Contents

• Connector Manual

• About

Contents

The Contents command opens the online help for PI APS. The help file contains essentially the same information as this manual.

Connector Manual

The Connector Manual command opens the user guide for the PI APS Connector of the selected interface if the user guide is installed. OSIsoft has discontinued distribution of user guides and release notes in setup kits. For this command to work, the user guide for the PI APS Connector must be downloaded separately and stored in the subfolder of %PIHOME%\APS\Connectors for the PI APS Connector.

About PI AutoPointSync Connector dialog box

The About command opens the About PI AutoPointSync Configuration Utility dialog box that displays version and timeout information for major PI APS components:

This dialog box shows the overall version of PI APS followed by versions of major components. To facilitate code sharing between the PI APS Configuration Utility and Synchronization Engine, functions that are needed by both are built into dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). PI APS also shares code with PI ICU by means of DLLs.

Except for PI SDK, these components are only intended for use by PI APS and/or PI ICU and are integral parts of those applications. They do not contain any user-callable functions.

• PI APS Configuration Utility

• PI APS Synchronization Engine

• PI APS Parse DLL

• This DLL contains various parsing functions that are shared by the PI APS Configuration Utility and Synchronization Engine.

• PI APS Points DLL

• This DLL contains functions for retrieving and modifying information in the APSPoints database (shared by the PI APS Configuration Utility and Synchronization Engine).

• PI APS Register Control DLL

• This DLL contains the control and supporting functions for registering an interface to use PI APS.

• PI APS Tag Naming DLL

• This DLL implements the custom controls that are embedded in the Tag Naming and Tag Selection tabs of the PI APS Configuration Utility's User-set Defaults for interface dialog box.

• PI APS Points Log DLL

• This DLL contains functions for automating Excel to create optional point logs (shared by the PI APS Configuration Utility and Synchronization Engine).

• PI Spt DLL

• This DLL contains functions for retrieving and storing settings from both the Windows Registry and the PI Server Module Database (shared by PI ICU, the PI APS Configuration Utility, and Synchronization Engine).

• PI GenericNames DLL

• This DLL contains information about the generic names of interfaces (shared by PI ICU and PI APS Configuration Utility).

• PI SDK

• SftTree Control

• This control implements the grid on the PI APS Configuration Utility's main window.