About PI Vision's search engine

The AVEVA PI Vision search engine returns items that start with the search phrase by default and includes the use of any spaces in the string.

AVEVA PI Vision searches the following fields:

• Tag/Asset/Attribute Name

• Tag/Asset/Attribute Description

  Note: Description search for elements and attributes is supported for PI AF server versions 2.10.5 and later. Sites with a mix of PI AF server versions support description matches if the server version is 2.10.5 or higher.

You can use wildcards such as asterisks (*) when you do not know all the letters in the search phrase. An asterisk is always assumed at the end of each entered search query.

Note: You can turn off the default appended asterisk wildcard for the AVEVA PI Vision server through a database setting.

Consider the following examples where asterisks are used in the search query: