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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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Limit rate of published changes through PI Builder

A lot of PI servers we work with have a high system load. When we create, change or delete PI Points in PI Builder we have to do a few hundred points at a time and monitor the Pending Events counter from Update Subsystem on the PI server to make s...
Robert 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Add Check In / Check Out button to PI Builder

It would be useful to add a Check In and Check Out button to PI Builder. So if any undesired change is made, it can be undone.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Enable the compatibility of PI Builder with Microsoft 365/O365

With the existing versions, the PI Builder plugin doesn't work with O365 in its full capability. It would be great to have the compatibility setup from PI Builder plugin with MS365.
Guest 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Add the "Enable Analyses when created from template" option to PI Builder

Would like to have the possibility to edit the option: Enable Analyses when created from template, for Analysis category in PI Builder.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller over 1 year 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 5 No status

Add support for context menus for cells in PI Builder

As a user, I want to have context menus for Excel cells when using PI Builder, so that I can select from different options using context menus to speed up configuration of AF objects.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Add the ability to upload raw data to the PI Data Archive

If PI Builder could upload raw data to PI, manual data entry would be greatly simplified. There are a few ways to enter data manually in PI, but each method has severe drawbacks: • Archive Editor in PI SMT Problems: hard to add data to multiple ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Declined

Automatically apply Excel data validation to PI Builder columns

Currently, if there is a problem in the user's PI Builder sheet, the user will not know until they click on "Publish" and see the error messages. To help avoid this, consider having PI Builder apply Excel's data validation feature to columns that...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

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 ar...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

PI Builder writing to Attributes that are Data References

PI Builder cannot write to Attributes that are Data References. It should be able to.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Declined