Tour export and import

You can export and import tours from the PI Manual Logger PC application in XML format. There are several reasons why you might want to do this:

• To transfer tours from one PI Manual Logger database to another, for example when moving data from a development to a production environment.

• To bulk load tour configurations.

• To edit tour configurations in an Excel spreadsheet. It is often easier to re-sequence PI tags this way.

• To rename tags if the tour configuration was copied from another tour and different tag names are needed for the newly copied tour. It can be easier to use Excel to replace a substring in a tag name than deleting each tag and adding a new tag.

• To rename PI tags. Although you can use the Update Tag Attributes function in PIML > PI Tags and Digital States, this task can be easier to accomplish in an XML file. For more information, see Rename or delete a tag in an existing tour configuration.

• To export data to Technical Support for troubleshooting.

A sample import file, Sample PIML Tour Import.xml, is located in the \PIPC\PIMLWindows\Samples folder.

Note: Imported tour data must adhere to the OSIsoft.PIML.xsd schema file, which is available in \PIPC\PIMLWindows. Tour data exported from PI Manual Logger also adheres to this schema.