Learn about asset browsing

You use the PI System Explorer browser to display asset objects in the PI AF database. The browser displays the following assets, depending on the asset type that you have selected in the navigator pane:

• Elements

  Displays element assets and element searches in a tree format. You can control how many elements are displayed per page.

• Event Frames

  Displays event frame and transfer search collections. Because asset models can comprise thousands of event frames or transfers, these objects are not displayed in a hierarchy in the browser. Instead, each has a search collection in the browser. Recent searches are also listed under the search collection.

• Library

  Displays object collections for Templates (for elements, event frames, models, and transfers), Enumeration Sets, Reference Types, Tables, Table Connections, and Categories (for analyses, attributes, elements, notification rules, reference types, and tables). To see all the objects of a particular type, you expand the collection for that type.

• Unit of Measure

  Displays all UOM classes in the Unit of Measure database. When you select a class, UOMs belonging to that class are listed in both the viewer and the conversion calculator.

• Contacts

  Displays a list of contact searches, escalation teams, groups, and stand-alone delivery endpoints for use with notifications.