Contextual navigation links

You can add a hyperlink to any object on your display except for an events table. (Each row in an events table is already a contextual link to the selected event.) You can also add hyperlinks inside a collection.

Once you add a hyperlink to an object, you can select it to navigate to a desired external website or another display, or you can right-click to choose whether the hyperlink opens in the same browser tab or in a new tab.

A hyperlink can be configured to pass the asset context from the asset on the original source display to the asset on the target display. When the link is selected (or right-clicked then Drill In > Set Context of Current Display), the target display asset will automatically change to match the context of the source display asset.

Note: Linked symbols inside a collection or an asset comparison table will pass the asset context of the symbol or asset row that is clicked on.

AVEVA PI Vision can pass asset context from the following:

• Current asset

• Root portion of the asset path

Current asset passed as context

For example, suppose a source display shows a dashboard with wind-speed gauges for ten wind turbines. When you click the gauge for Turbine 2, AVEVA PI Vision opens a target display that provides a detailed operational view of Turbine 2 with its attribute data.

In this scenario, the link passes context from a multi-asset source display to a single-asset target display.

To set this type of asset context, click Use current asset in the Add Navigation Link pane.

Note: If assets on the source display are based on different asset templates, their attribute names must match.

Root portion of the asset path passed as context

For example, suppose a source display shows a dashboard with wind-speed gauges for ten wind turbines. When you click the gauge for Turbine 2, AVEVA PI Vision opens a detailed operational view of Turbine 2 with attribute data from both Turbine 2 and its child assets: Gearbox, Generator, and Motor.

In this scenario, the link passes the asset's path between a multi-asset source display and a multi-asset target display where the assets are related in the hierarchy. The target display updates with attribute data from the passed asset and its child or grandchild assets.

To set this type of asset context, click Use current asset as root in the Add Navigation Link pane.

Note: The assets passed to a target display with the Use current asset as root option should be at the same or parallel nodes in the PI AF hierarchy and have identically named hierarchies of child assets.

Training Video

For more on this topic, watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUwyB70KH1Q&list=PLMcG1Hs2JbcvWPkSbIbQEJqsTX9Sa1nty