AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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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.

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My ideas: PI Connector for UFL

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Develop an interactive INI editor for the UFL Connector

The editor should allow you to see in real time how it interacts with the data. Being able to test the INI file prior to loading some file would make it much more manageable to read a variety of data format and insure that it has the expected beha...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 7 Declined

Feature to turn off auto creation of PI Tags in PI Connector for UFL

Ability to turn off auto creation of PI tags - When data is sent via REST to a PI Connector for UFL service ,currently it looks for a PI Tag in the PI Server and if the PI Tag does not exist it creates a new PI Tag. It would be good if we could tu...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 7 Declined

Enable or Disable single DataSource

When a datasource is actually offline and we don't want the UFL connector to keep trying uploading or connecting to it and pollute the message log . The best option would be having the stop/start enable/disable and restart options for each dataso...
Andy over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 3 Declined

UFL Timezone Conversion

Supported timestamps are currently limited to Local or UTC timezones. Data sources may not be configurable to provide timestamps in supported formats. There currently exists no robust or simple way of converting between timezones using the UFL...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 5 Declined

Windows Authentication to the Rest Endpoint should be supported with PI UFL Connector. Currently only Basic is supported

I tried connecting to a REST endpoint using PI UFL Connector. However, it seems the Connector only supports Basic Authentication. The REST point only supports Windows Integrated Security. We can use Web Browser to read data from the REST endpoint....
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 5 Declined

Allow the connector to use a proxy for web requests

Provide a way to configure the connector to use a proxy and authenticate with the proxy if required.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 4 Declined

Make the UFL Connector logic development/testing/debugging process less tedious

Deploying a UFL Connector solution requires a LOT of edits of the INI file as part of the development/testing/debugging process. After each INI file change and file save, the required procedure is as follows: 1. Click on the Data Source List link...
Mic Paluszak over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 Declined

Remove or disable the PI Connector UFL function which puts "Excluded" into attributes

If the user has two different UFL flows working on same elements and attributes, one flow puts "Excluded" into the attributes created within the second one and vice versa. Giving the possibility to the user to disable this function would be a sma...
rodolforotti over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

Connector (UFL) can read AF data structure

Right now it is a limitation because of the current functionality / design. In the future it would be nice if: - the connector can read the existing AF structure - update the existing AF structure - create elements / EF / attributes under existin...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

UFL Connector - Add elements and attributes to existing AF hierarchies

Simply, it would be nice if the UFL Connector could add to existing elements and attributes already in place instead of creating a new hierarchy. Also, would like the ability to create sub-elements from the UFL connector that span multiple eleme...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 Declined