Product Ideas

Currently Cognite Canvas allows users to perform below steps (example)1. Add Engineering document file2. Add Asset contextualized with the Engineering document file3. Add Events (Work Order, Notifications, Operations etc) contextualized with the asset where each event is a separate container/tile on the Canvas. Is it possible to add a tabular view for all the linked Events with an Asset instead of a single tile per event view.Also if the tabular view could have features to sort and filter based on the available event properties.  

Its a need to have the schedules tab available for all users using InField. As a technician it is beneficial to see all upcoming check lists in a schedule view just as the lead technician is able to today. This gives a much better overview of all lists coming up in the next week.The only downside is that the technicians don’t need to set a check list to “Ready” status. Its proposed to give technicians a display version of schedules, without the possibility of setting lists to “Ready”.  

In previous versions of InField it was possible to go into a template and find all checklists that was generated from that template. The same functionality is not longer available.For finding historical data for a particular template it is very beneficial to be able to search for a certain template and find all check lists. Its easy to compare the results that have been logged for each list.A proposal for how this can be done is to add a new column in the check list section in the overview tab for “Template”. If the user can choose a template from here, it is possible to find all checklists that have been genereated from that template.  

There is a need to generate a check list for all functional location in the object list of a work order in SAP independent of operation. Currently it is possible to generate check list based on operations/tags. I.e if I choose one operation and click “Create and assign” I will generate a check list for all f.locs assigned to the operation.Sometimes it is a need to just get a check list for the whole work order where each f.loc in the object list is listed once. Using the current method this is not possible to get. The exisitng functionality of operation/f.loc checklists works great! This is just needed in addition to what we already have.

In the overview tab its currently not possible to see who the checklists are assigned to. Its only possible to see if the checklist is assigned to a person.  In the schedules section, there is a good solution for this, where you can see the initials of the person who is assigned the check list, and when holding the mouse over the name, one can see the entire name.  Adding the same functionality to overview tab would be very beneficial

On the hand held device, add an option in the search section of the app to “scan” a functional location using the camera. Once the functional location is scanned in the field, the user automatically is brought into the detail section of the functional location.Using gloves for manually typing in f.loc in the field is cumbersome and adding an automatic scan function will save time for the end users.

In the overview tab in InField, be able to filter on all colums. As of now, only very few of the columns can be filtered on. An example is provided below:   Today one can for example not filter on ones own discipline(Work Center) or Work plan (Revision) which is crucial for finding your own relevant work orders. Filters are both relevant for work order and check list tabs.

Today the CogniteUnit is not shown under the Properties in Search. It is also not used in the timeseries Preview tab. It would be helpful to be able to search and filter on CogniteUnit, and do unit conversion in the timeseries Preview

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?

there is no option to edit a chart directly from canvas. you have to open the time series in charts. Save as a new name and then reopen canvas and manually add the new chart. It should be possible to edit the chart directly from canvas, save and then update the canvas.

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 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

When using classic data model, there is a separate button in the right column allowing you to add events in the Charts For Data Modelling you have to do “+ Add data” → “Add time series” → select either Asset or the Activity category → select the Activity you want to include.For a new user, the “Add time series” might throw you off a little (reoccurring feedback from SMEs trying Data Modelling in Charts).It would be good to have names that allow a new user to find things more easily 

Today, when adding data (using data modelling), the Category defaults to CogniteTimeSeries.Would it be possible to have Chart remember your selection (some engineers always search via the Asset) so you do not have to select every time? 

Can a simple label be added to Infield so that a user knows which environment they are in? We have 3 different environments and the only way to know which we are in for certain is to log out and log back in. We have had users create templates in our UAT environment before they realized it. Then they had to recreate them manually again in production.A simple label at the top would suffice. This would save us countless times of logging in and out and also make sure users know when they are not in the correct environment. ​@Andrew Montgomery 

We would like to ask if the -> open button under files (see below screenshot) can be coded in such way that it can be opened in a new tab in the browser. 

For classic data model, the UI can roll up timeseries from all children, which is a very useful function allowing you to reduce the amount of traversing to find all relevant timeseries. This functionality seems to be missing for data modelling. Is this functionality missing, or is it a particular requirement to the data model that we have not met in our model?It would be good to either document ​​​​​​better how to make this happen with data modelling, or reintroduce it if it is missing.  

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. 

The File category view is very useful, allowing you to quickly filter on the right files. But some file categories are more important than others, especially the P&IDs. It would be good to be able to configure the order of the file categories in that list, allowing us to eg “pin” the P&ID category on the top 

there's an unnecessary amount of filtering options under search. I guess its okay to show the options available, but for several tags there are multiple filters without any hits - why are these shown? The number of filters is already many, some of them with descriptions not too accurate (but I guess they are for some people...)  This is mainly for trying to remove some noise from the filtering functions.   An explanatory information document for the filter options would also be nice. many people who will be trying to filter will really struggle to know what to filter on.Can hide properties from filter if none of the values are populated.

When selecting an instance in Search, the Overview tab is very useful (seeing more than one data category without having to switch view). The challenge today is that the tiles have pre-defined columns, and they do not allow for filtering. It is of course possible to go into the “full screen mode” for each category, like Activities, but then you loose the possibility of seeing data from more categories in context.It would be very useful to be able to configure the properties we see in each tile and to filter on properties, like we can do in the “full screen mode”. 

With the data modelling framework, most models will end up with a significant number of Views. Today we are not able to control the order the Views are presented in a good way. By reverse engineering it seems like the order of the Views is based on The order of the (first mentioned) CDM extension in the model definition. Alle non-CDM Views are listed at the end, irrespectively whether it is listed before CDM or not  What is considered a CDM extension by the UI is not based on the implements, but whether it reference at least one property from one of the CDM containers Inside each Category (eg, a specific CDM extension, or the non-CDM Views), the order in the model definition dictates the orderIf I choose alphabetic sorting it seems to only affect the non-CDM-Views, and not the order inside each CDM category. It do however put all the CDM categories first or last It is very inconvenient to use the order of appearance in the model definition as the way of sorting (we have to sort both th

When selecting an instance in Search, the Overview tab is very useful (seeing more than one data category without having to switch view). However, the tiles are static and cannot be resized. Resizing would allow the user to see more of the data in one category while still see the other data categories (eg I want to see more of the properties from the Asset while still seeing the list of workorders.For the same reason we would like to be able to change the order of the tiles, eg moving the workorder tile up next to the properties tile, to better focus on the things we want to see.The same behavior is also relevant when searching for data via Charts and Canvas

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 selecting the property that will be used for the x-axis in the graph, the list is not searchable. For more complex Views the list of properties can be long (100+), which makes a non-searchable non-sorted list relatively hard to work with