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Navigation & Utility

Use these controls to move between displays, change the display time, or present approved web content inside the current PI Vision display.

Overview

Use these controls to move between displays, change the display time, or present approved web content inside the current PI Vision display.

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What you needSymbolWhy
Navigate a hierarchy of displays while preserving contextNavigation Menu+Reuses a structured menu and can pass time range and asset context.
One visible action that opens a display or URLNavigation Button+Creates a focused navigation action and can pass time range, asset context, or query parameters.
Apply a predefined or operator-selected time rangeDateTime Picker+Provides buttons, calendars, or start and end controls for display time.
A website or PI Vision display embedded in the current pageWeb View+Presents content inline, in a dialog, as tabs, or as a slideshow.

The Playback tool, which replays a past period on the display, is documented in the Tools section.

Before publishing navigation and embedded content

  • Verify every configured destination, time expression, and context parameter with operator permissions.
  • Confirm that the target permits iframe embedding when using Web View+, and use HTTPS content when PI Vision is served over HTTPS.
  • Verify authentication, browser security policy, and operator access to every destination.

Articles in this category

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Navigation Menu+Navigation Menu+ gives operators one place to move between related displays: a bar or side menu of links to PI Vision displays and web pages, with submenus. A link can carry the display time range and asset to the display it opens, and one menu can be shared by many displays.Navigation Button+Navigation Button+ is a button that takes operators to another PI Vision display or to a web page. The link can carry the display time range and an asset, so the destination opens on the same period or the same equipment.DateTime Picker+DateTime Picker+ lets operators set the PI Vision display time range with one click, from buttons or a drop-down list of days, shifts and weeks, from a named list of ranges, or from a calendar. Every symbol on the display that follows the display time range refreshes to the range the operator picks.Web View+Web View+ shows another PI Vision display or a web page inside your display, as a single frame, as tabs, as a slideshow, or in a dialog that opens from a button.