Ignition Features and Ideas

It would be nice to find/replace for objects that are currently selected. When you open find/replace it does the entire project which is nice in some cases, but in many situations it would be easier to find/replace based on tags/objects that are currently selected.

I would like a way to determine if a tag in the tag browser is actually used throughout the project. Cleaning up the tag browser of unnecessary tags can be difficult as you are not sure what is being used and what is not. Once you delete a tag you get overlays which indicate you deleted something you shouldn't have but before it gets to this, something like a small green dot next to the tag in the browser, showing it's actively being used would be of great help.

Perspective has a text field in its property editor that highlights properties as the user types. The Vision property editor only has a dropdown with a few unintuitive options. A text field that actively filtered or highlighted as the user typed would be much better.

UDTs in the Siemens program are exposed in the address space as both a collection of nodes that can be read, written or subscribed to individually as well as a single complex DataType accessible in the value attribute of the parent of the collection of nodes in the address space that represent the UDT. Currently, Ignition does not support accessing these complex DataType values. If implemented, the PLC Data Types can be reused as Ignition UDTs and linked with a single OPC-UA address.

Editing setpoints and text fields with a touchscreen in Perspective Workstation is currently very difficult without an onscreen keyboard to enter values into. Currently the OS OSK is supported in the browser, but not Vision web browser and workstation. It's imperative that it be supported by all versions, but extending that, it would be far nicer if a custom keypad was used instead like in Vision so that for example the Numpad can be shown properly in the 3x3+1 grid, unlike how Windows 10 shows it on the same line 1x10 grid https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-workstation-show-numeric-text-input-on-screen-keyboard-for-touchscreens/41741

It would be great to have more badges available to display more info about components in both Perspective and in Vision. One idea that has been suggested by another user on the forum, is to add a 'Message Handler is used' badge to identify that a component is using a message handler. One way to avoid cluttering of the badges area, is to also make the list of badges shown user-selectable so that we can show and hide those we feel are valuable at the time. Related forum post: https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/message-handlers-practicality/27698/8

This would allow for resizing text based on window size. Currently, resizing a window in a coordinate view causes the text to wrap and become unreadable in some apps.

Our door badge system integrates with Active Directory, so we already have an attribute in Active Directory that has the badge ID listed in it. This request is to add a new field to the gateway (e.g. Badge Attribute) that could be used to allow for badge access to Perspective without requiring "AD/Database Hybrid."

It would be nice to have some sort of report that shows where all the tags are being used

Print view functionality. Send a print job to the default printer. Or maybe better, generate a PDF of the selected View.