Community Discussions

Can we add functionality to Canvas to have the option to download Canvas documents as separate PDFs or one combined PDF?

Since they cannot issue accounts to partner companies, they would like to make it possible for their representatives to provide handwritten signatures on the checklists.

When manipulating the chart, like zooming/translating, or just moving the pointer to the chart are such that the slider appears, or select/unselect the browser, it triggers a refresh of the data in the “Explore and select your data” window. If you have zoomed in on a file, or searched and filtered on properties, everything gets reset. It seems unnecessary to refresh the data on the “Explore and select your data” window every time I touch the chart, and it makes it impossible to move back and forth when investigating a P&ID

When viewing an asset in search, if you click the asset tab in the overview window, that tab is defaulted to the “Asset Parent”, but path would be a more appropriate default, showing details for the currently selected asset.   

When using filters, the Starts with setting is a powerful functionality allowing you to filter on phrases (limited to the start of the string). However, if the phrase you enter in the search field do not get a match in the “sample set” (not sure how that is extracted, but assume it is the X first instances returned by the list API call), the Apply button is grayed out (shows a red no-parking sign if you hover over it). To force the setup of the filter you have to activate the search field and press Return. If you then press Apply the filter works as intended. This is not a very intuitive workflow, and most users believe the filter config is invalid when the Apply button is “greyed out”.

Users are requesting that adding text to shapes (like a rectangle, arrow, etx.) rather than overlaying a text-box onto a shape. This makes having specific formatting on text move more seamlessly and fit the format of other tools (PDF editor, google slides, powerpoint, etx.) Currently it becomes cluttered to try to move things around unless I control-select or drag on top of both. The drag on top of both only works when there is nothing behind it, making it cumbersome to do versus having this as an intended way to add text to shapes. 

The available functionality for handling pictures in InField today has some improvements for improving user experience. These are:Be able to Zoom in on a picture: currently user can only enter a picture without zooming in on certain parts. Should be possible from both handheld unit and desktop. Download pictures: Should be an alternative for users to download one or all pictures for a certain functional location. Choose next/previous picture: One the user have chosen to display a certain picture it should be possible to choose next/previous to avoid having to exit into the picture menu. Show timestamp for picture upload and who has uploaded it: It would be great if its possible to see which user has uploaded a certain picture and when.Current picture/vidoe management menu:   

Users are requesting that more line options be added as standard, auto-formatable items, similar to tools powerpoint, slides, miro, and other collaborative whiteboard/presentation environments.  The current challenge is that straight lines look disorganized & messy while the poly-line tool does not have snap functionality. Auto-formatting like other whiteboard tools allows this with ‘elbow arrow’ type features.  

Users are requesting additional shapes to be available in canvas for use.  Some examples include: Arrow with fill color available

In Charts and Canvas and Streamlit, items created for quick checks or simple testing (which are not valuable and can be deleted without issue) are listed together with highly valuable items used in daily operations (which would cause problems if deleted).Although only the creator can delete their own items, as CDF usage grows and more Charts and Canvas assets are created, the risk of accidentally deleting important items increases.To prevent this, could we have an optional deletion lock feature for Charts and Canvas and Streamlit?When the lock is enabled, the item cannot be deleted; once the lock is manually removed, deletion becomes possible again.This would help protect important items from accidental removal.

Now, when selecting the stacking function in Charts, all the selected timeseries are combined in the same Y-axis. See attached picture. It is reported by the SMEs that this UI is very messy and hard to read properly. Suggestion to improve this would be a feature where the user can select if he/she want to stack the Y-axes separately (see picture). This would help with better readability of the data in the chart. 

Points of Interest that can be created in a Scene may be used for various purposes, such as near-miss incidents, work procedures, and safety notes. However, at the moment, all Points of Interest are displayed in the same color without any distinction.It would be very helpful if Points of Interest could be tagged and visualized differently in 3D—for example, by displaying them in different colors based on their tags, or by enabling filters to show only Points of Interest with a specific tag, such as near-miss incidents. This would greatly improve usability.

If document names is "clickable" it connects to itself.  This makes it unorganised, especially if you want connection lines to other multiple other documents. A blocker should be in place to ensure that connection lines do not connect the document to itself. 

It should be possible to enlarge windows in canvas in vertical direction

There is no option to hide connecting lines in canvas between documents. This can lead to overcrowded canvas layout and difficult to see what lines is connected where. Recommend to make an option to hide individual lines to ensure a better visual layout.

Should be able to change font size and colour within a sticky note. Also, why not be able to change the colour of the sticky note with HEX codes, and only restrict it to four colours?

When you click on a comment in the comment panel you should be moved to wherever in that canvas the comment is located. Imagine yourself working in a huge canvas with your team, multiple comments, and you need to look through what not to find that exact comment box...  Should be both automatically moved to that comment, and also as a choice in the three dots "go to comments"

When clicking “+Add data” and “Add time series”, you can search for other data types, like assets. However, if you try to follow links, like parent of child asset, you are kicked out of Charts and pushed over to full Search. This means it is impossible to use the asset hierarchy to locate relevant timeseries. Similar issues are seen if you use the files (like P&ID) to enter the asset (to find the timeseries) The test was done one a CDM based data model

When adding data in Charts via the “+Add data”→ “Add time series”→ “Explore and select your data” the behavior using classic vs data modelling is very different.  By using a CDM extended data model we see that a series of actions related to Assets push you out of the “Explore and select your data” and into full Search. We do not see the same behavior when using classic data model.Here is a non-exhaustive list of actions that kick you out of ChartsFrom an Asset, clicking on parent, an asset from the path, or children  from the “assets” reference  From a File, clicking on any Asset reference From an annotated file, clicking on the “Open” button on the popup when you click an Asset annotation From an Activity or TimeSeries, clicking on Asset references Clicking on any Asset in the “bread crumb” trail in the  “Explore and select your data”  Clicking on the back button in the “Explore and select your data”, if the last item in the “bread crumb” is an Asset What does not kick you out:Maneuve

Charts provides a variety of built‑in functions. However, aside from intuitive operators like basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), many of the other operators and functions are not very familiar.Because of this, it is often difficult to understand what kind of calculations are being performed and in what situations these functions can be useful. As a result, there are many functions that we are unable to take advantage of, simply because we cannot easily imagine their use cases.If we are overlooking functions that are actually useful, that would be a great missed opportunity. Therefore, I would really appreciate it if you could provide sample calculations and concrete use cases for these functions somewhere.Ideally, it would be fantastic to have something like built‑in help documentation for Charts functions, with direct links accessible from the Charts interface itself.

Strategic Objective: Establishing CDF as the Definitive Source of TruthFor Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES), the primary goal is for all stakeholders to trust CDF as the most accurate and reliable resource for operational data. To achieve this, we must move away from "silent failures." We require proactive monitoring to ensure that if data is missing from CDF, the system—not the user—is the first to identify and report the gap.New Requirement: Proactive Integrity & Trust MonitoringIn addition to standard execution logs, the Kafka Connector API should provide hooks for proactive health checks:Data Freshness Latency: Real-time reporting of the "age" of the last record written to CDF versus the timestamp of the event in Kafka. Source-to-Sink Parity: Automated counters to verify that $N$ records consumed from Kafka equals $N$ records successfully ingested into CDF. Proactive "No Data" Alerts: The ability to trigger a log event or status change if a high-priority Kafka topic produc

I want to suggest that Cognite should team up with mimstech.com. This can improve the digital twin by providing a full digital engineering drawings. Then you can move away from PDf hotspotting. MiMS tech cover all engineering disiplines. Mimstech comes with open API and is also web based. 

Now it's challenging to find the correct timeseries, especially for OPCUA, where we have many service signals. It would be good to have a way of prioritizing it in all the UIs, including Canvas and Search. Could be a flag in the timeseries properties or any other way.  

When creating calculations, the four basic arithmetic operations are some of the most frequently used features. However, in the current Charts experience, creating even slightly complex expressions requires configuring a large number of Functions.For example, the Add Function can only add two time series at a time, so even for a simple expression like A + B + C + D + E, you need to place four separate Add Functions.Could this process be made simpler so that basic arithmetic can be built more easily?Ideally, it would be great if users could enter an expression directly on the “Create calculation” screen—for example:A + (B - C) / (B + C) * 100 + D × Eand Charts would automatically generate the necessary Functions.If the expression format followed something similar to Excel, most users would find it intuitive and easy to use. 

Canvas has a feature that allows us to display the latest time series values as numeric values, and this is a function we use very frequently.For this feature, there is an option to adjust the number of decimal places shown. However, would it be possible to extend this functionality slightly so that values can be displayed as integers, without any decimal places?For example, for time series data that records production batch numbers, displaying decimal places feels somewhat unintuitive. In such cases, displaying the value as an integer would be more appropriate and easier to understand.