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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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.


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Convert PI Builder from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

This change will bring a few benefits: PI Builder will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI Builder will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI Builder to the Microso...
Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Support import/export of AF tables in PI Builder

As a user, I want to be able to import/export AF tables using PI Builder, so that I can make changes as needed.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 5 No status

Force the AF Attribute’s Display Digits to match the corresponding PI Point’s Display Digits setting

When creating a PI Point DR Attribute in PI Builder, I would like the attribute’s Display Digits to be automatically set to match the Display Digits of the referenced PI Point.
Hui Liu 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Show Number of Affected Objects Before Publish/Delete

Currently, when using Publish or Delete in PI Builder, users cannot see how many objects will be affected. This can cause accidental changes, especially if filters are misapplied or some rows are hidden. I propose a confirmation summary before exe...
Yuriy Sadovskiy 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Editing or adding of Annotation/Comment to Event Frame

Currently, PI Builder does not support editing or adding of annotation/comment to Event Frame. The suggestion will easily allow users to backfill or edit annotation/comment in bulk.
Willy Seah Wei Liat almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Ability to Manage Global Notification Formats from PI Builder

Currently, there is no button in PI Builder which allows users to bring in Global Notifications Formats. The button would allow users to read in current Formats and then users would be able to Publish edited formats or newly created formats. This ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Generate error when header is misspelled

When editing PI Points, PI Builder does not return any error if one of the headers is wrong or misspelled. Simply, nothing is edited for that header and you  only find out at a later time when looking at the PI point. It would be useful if PI...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Use Excel tables to contain PI Builder data

PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework. Benefits of PI Builder using tables: Filters are...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Add functionality to "Verify/Check" creation of PI Tags before officially creating

For background, I primarily do work for pharmaceutical companies, where they say "you should have some level of anxiety when you are working in production environments". Often, I have to create a list of PI tags, but there may be errors in the spr...
JD Rogers 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Allow PI Builder to be used with Windows Store Application version of Excel

If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry. PI...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status