Edit elements with PI Builder

With PI Builder, you can use Microsoft Excel to edit PI AF elements. The features of Microsoft Excel let you easily edit multiple elements at the same time.

1. Retrieve elements into your Microsoft Excel worksheet:

   • Retrieve all elements.

   • Retrieve elements by browsing.

   • Retrieve elements by searching.

2. Edit any values that you want to change.

   To change the element name, include the NewName column and enter the new name in that column.

   You cannot change all property values. Specifically, PI Builder ignores changes that you make to read-only properties. See Element columns.

3. In the Selected(x) column, set the value to X for any row where you edited a value, and clear the value for any row that you did not change.

4. Publish the changes to PI AF:

   1. On the PI Builder tab, click Publish to open the Publish Options window.

   2. From the Edit Mode list, select Edit Only to guard against mistakenly creating new objects.

   3. Click OK to publish the changes to PI AF.

      If any of the selected objects do not already exist, PI Builder generates an error.