Install and setup PI Builder

You can install PI Builder from the PI AF Client or PI Server install kits. To download PI Server install kits, click on the customer portal AVEVA Customer Portal Products page.

Close Microsoft Excel before installing PI Builder or other components in the PI AF Client or PI Server install kits. Also, consider your Data Archive configuration to ensure that you have proper access to PI points.

Set PI Builder to another language

Select the Language Packs feature during installation to view the PI Builder user interface in languages other than English. PI Builder will use the Office display language on the Excel options menu if the language is supported. See the PI AF Client Installation and Upgrade Guide or PI Server Installation and Upgrade Guide for further information.

Random and Ramp Soak interfaces removal

Starting with PI Server 2018 SP3, the Random and Ramp Soak interfaces are no longer installed by default with a new Data Archive installation. Optionally, you can install them by using separate install kits: the PI Interface for Ramp Soak Simulator Data and the PI Interface for Random Simulator Data. After installing these interfaces, follow the instruction provided by the interface install kits to create default PI points and then receive simulated data from these interfaces. For upgrades, previous versions of Random and Ramp Soak interfaces will remain and the default PI Points will continue to retrieve simulated data.

Prior to PI Server 2018 SP3, the following default PI points are created automatically with the PI Data Archive install kit:

• BA:ACTIVE.1

• BA:CONC.1

• BA:LEVEL.1BA:PHASE.1

• BA:PHASE.1

• BA:TEMP.1

• CDEP158

• CDM158

• CDT158

• SINUSOID

• SINUSOIDU