Retrieve all categories of a particular type

Before you can retrieve categories, you need to Specify a database.

You can use PI Builder to retrieve all categories of a particular type from a PI AF database into Microsoft Excel. Specifically, you can retrieve categories of analyses, attributes, elements, reference types, or tables.

1. On the PI Builder tab, click Library > Categories and then click the category type.

   For example, to retrieve all the element categories, click Library > Categories > Element Categories.

2. In the Select Object Types and Column Headers window, select the objects and column headers to include in the worksheet, and then click OK.

   PI Builder retrieves all the categories of the selected type from the current PI AF database into the worksheet and fills the selected columns with available data.