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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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Append Searches on PI Builder

Add ability to add to existing PI Points in a PI Builder worksheet, compared to Overwriting worksheet. Side note: extend it to all objects, not just PI Points.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Completed

Allow changing element reference types in PI Builder

PI Builder should allow changing element reference types. Currently, changes to element reference types are skipped when published in PI Builder.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

RecNo object type option on PI Builder

On current PI Builder 2018 there is no option to select the RecNo attribute for a PI point by default. For instance, this would be helpful to recover deleted points such as we do with piconfig command. I would like to see if it would be possible...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Completed

Event frame search in Pi Builder - Add option to define parent element

Add the option to define the parent element in AF for where the event frames are stored. Currently you can only define "Element Name", this could be the same for several elements. Would also be nice if you could import (and delete) more than 1000...
Haavard about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Completed

Add 'Snapshot Value' column option

When retrieving all PI points, there should be an option to also include the Snapshot value. Currently, a user must use other means to retrieve all current values and then merge the two together.
Kelsey Bobeck about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Completed

Increase the maximum number of tags PI Builder can import into Excel

As a PI admin I would like to manage my tag configuration in bulk to efficiently carry out my role. PI Builder and excel provide a good way to do this for medium tag counts, however, the limitation of 100,000 tags makes it difficult to do this for...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

Filter out uniqueid and GUID strings from analysis rules when exporting analysis templates

When exporting Analysis Templates to excel with PI Builder, the AnalysisRuleVariableMapping and the AnalysisRuleConfigString normally includes uniqueid and GUID of the input and output attributes. It would be nice to have the possibility to filte...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Completed

Enable PI Builder for Office Web Apps

As a user, I want to be able to use PI Builder in a web browswer, so that I can use PI Builder with Office 365.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

Add a mandatory "Error Message" column

Currently, if there are issues with any rows that the user tried to publish, the error messages appear in a separate window mixed in with the success messages, and the troublesome rows are highlighted in red font. Having the separate window only c...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Completed

Preserve formatting in PI Builder when use Simplified Configuration Strings

If the "Show simplified configuration strings" option is selected in Settings, this removes GUIDS from the output in Excel. However, this option also removes the linefeeds in any formatted Analyses. If reloaded then this can corrupt the analyses ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed