Contextualized dashboard displays

Contextualization for dashboard displays works by discovering the dashboard that contains the same keyword as the name of the current asset.

Associate the saved PI Vision dashboard displays with one or more keywords, where at least one of the keywords is an asset name. The keyword list from the saved PI Vision displays is matched against the currently selected asset name in OMI ViewApp.

If more than one dashboard has the same keyword that matches the asset, the first dashboard that matches the asset name is shown, and the remainder of the dashboards are ignored. A custom flag in the logger will provide a message if this occurs.

From the keyword data, the Dashboard ID is retrieved by an internal web API call to PI Vision. This Dashboard ID is then used to retrieve the saved display.

The currently logged-in Windows user credential is used to retrieve the keyword and Dashboard ID.

To contextualize Dashboard displays

1. Enable the Follow Current Context property.

2. Use the PI Vision UI to add keywords to the saved display. This is required for dashboard displays to work contextually within the PI Vision OMI app.

   Keywords assigned to displays should correlate with the appropriate asset names. As you navigate to an item with has the same name as a keyword, the applicable display is shown.

   Note: Keywords are added to displays from within the PI Vision application, not the OMI app.

   

   You can add multiple keywords, using a semicolon as the separator. The PI Vision OMI app then searches for displays within the PI Vision Asset Framework to find the display that contains the matching keyword as you navigate to different assets. For example, adding the keyword "Plant" to a display will allow the OMI app to find the display that is applicable when the currently-selected asset is named "Plant."

   If more than one dashboard display contains the same keyword, the PI Vision OMI app will use the first display that was saved with the keyword.