Perform basic tasks

AVEVA PI Vision organizes your process data into displays, which may contain symbols, such as trends, tables, values, or gauges. Displays are designed to represent your operational environment and can have symbols, shapes, images, and text.

The descriptions below introduce you to the basics for creating symbols and designing displays in AVEVA PI Vision.

Create a new display or open an existing display on the home page

When you open AVEVA PI Vision, you will see the home page with display thumbnails and a search box. The home page is your starting point for finding or creating displays containing PI data. To create a new display, click +New Display. To open an existing display, click a display thumbnail or use the search box to search for a display name or owner. (See Search for a display.)

1. New Display: Click to create a new display.

2. Display Thumbnail: Click to open an existing display.

3. Search Box: Search for existing displays.

Search for your process data in a display

Once a new or existing display opens, search for your data in the Assets pane to the left of the display.

There are two ways to find PI data in the Assets pane:

• Search by entering search terms.

• Search using the navigation tree.

Visualize your process data as symbols and add them to a display

• After you find a data item you want to visualize, select the desired symbol type from the symbol gallery at the top of the Assets pane. You can view your data as a trend, a value, a vertical gauge, a horizontal gauge, a radial gauge, a table, an asset comparison table, a time series table, bar chart, or an XY plot.

  

• Click the data item in the search results and drag it onto the display to view it as a symbol with values.

• Move or resize the symbol or add new symbols to the display from the search results.

Add shapes, text, or images

• Use the editing toolbar shown below to add shapes, text, or images to the display. You can combine multiple shapes and images to create diagrams or drawings. The editing toolbar only appears when you are in Design mode.

  

• Right-click any shape, text or image to format it in the Format pane.

Save a display

To save your display, click the save icon in the top-right corner of the display. To save your display with a different name, click the down arrow, and then click Save As and enter the name of your display in the window.

Next time you are on the home page, you will see your saved display's name and thumbnail.

Exit Design mode to monitor a display

To lock your display and start monitoring it, exit Design mode by selecting Monitor Operations .

After you exit Design mode, you can view trend cursors by clicking on any trend or pan backwards or forwards in time by dragging the highlighted lower section of the trend left or right. (See Monitor displays.)

Sign out

If PI Vision uses OpenID Connect authentication, you can sign out. Select your user name and then select Sign Out.

An AVEVA Identity Manager page appears confirming that you are signed out.