AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new feedback site!


We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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PI Web API

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Store index files somewhere other than the program data folder

As a PI system administrator I want to specify where search index files are stored or make sure that the index files are not consuming space on an OS drive , so that I can manage/optimize the disk usage on my server machine.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 Declined

Tools to assist in configuring and testing Kerberos delegation

As a PI Administrator, I need assistance configuring and testing Kerberos delegation, so that I can access the full functionality of the products without exposing my system to potential threats.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

Service to find changes in the PI System

As a programmer, I want to be able to use the PI Web API to find out about changes in the PI System. This mean Elements, Templates, Attributes, Event Frames and PI Point configuration changes.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 Declined

Annotate Elements with Web API

Add functionality to annotate AF Elements using Web API.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

Web based client using PI Web API

Just as we have clients like PSE(AF SDK), SMT(PI SDK) it will be very useful to have one which is based on PI Web API. This can be used for CRUD operations along with making configuration changes and testing security.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 2 Declined

Allow parameters to be passed to a request body in the Batch Controller

I would like the ability to pass response values from one request into the body of a dependent request using the batch controller to avoid making 2 calls to the PI Web API. Currently,  I can only use Parameters in subsequent URLs, but not bodies.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 Declined

Implement a checkpoint system for index crawls

When the crawler fails on an incremental crawl, the index search must perform a complete rebuild of the index. It would be beneficial for there to be a way to revert to a previous built index just prior to the failed incremental crawl so that the ...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 2 Declined

PI Web API - return queries in custom timezone

Add functionality to do the above instead of making the client application perform the task
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

Allow subscribing/unsubscribing to attributes on existing channel connection

The channel/websocket feature of PI Web API would be more useful if it was possible to subscribe/unsubscribe to attributes on an existing channel connection. Currently you have to open the connection with all the WebIds you want in the resource UR...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

AF Dependency Removal

Can the PI Web API be configured to store its configuration information in a flat file or some other (non AF) mechanism?
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined