Understand enumeration sets

You can use PI Builder to create, retrieve, edit, and delete PI AF enumeration sets with Microsoft Excel. Enumeration sets map an ordered set of user-defined constant values to a string, and promote consistent nomenclature throughout your databases.

When creating templates, you can use enumeration sets to ensure users assign only predefined attribute values from a list when a new element is created in PI System Explorer. For example, you could create an enumeration set for all pump vendors and then add it to an element template as an attribute. Each time a new pump is created, users can only assign one of the vendor names from a predefined list.

See also

Create an enumeration set

Edit PI AF objects

Delete PI AF objects