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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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Analytics & Calculations

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Limit Analytics to Only Write to Specific Pointsource

A useful setting for PI Analytics would be the ability to specify a specific pointsource that the Analytic service writes to. This would help tremendously to troubleshoot what tags on the PI DA server are being written to by AF Analytics.
Brian Rock about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

A way to specify within analyses whether input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache

A way to specify within the analyses if input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache. Thereby preventing different results during real-time calculation and for instance backfills and decreasing the execution time of ana...
David Scott 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Make "In" operator compatible with arrays within AF Analysis

We have many calculations following this basic pattern - take recorded values of one attribute, apply a filter (using FilterData), then retrieve values of a second attribute at the filtered timestamps of the first attribute. Currently, we cannot r...
Gregory Malek 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Overload the Convert function to allow a input UoM and output UoM for unitless values

For unitless values you can assign a unit of measure by using the Convert() function. To further convert this to another UoM in the same class you need to nest another Convert() function. For example, Convert(Convert(3600, "s"), "h")) It would sim...
Mike Horrocks 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Fix for KI: EventFrame Extended property not removed after EF is closed

The first EFs created by the PI Analysis Service after a restart can have the Extended Property StatusInAnalysisService stuck in Reconciling even after the event frame has been closed. There is a workaround to fix the issue when it occurs (see Eve...
Guest 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

PI System Explorer > Preview Results: trends should allow for Inputs/Outputs to be selected/deselected

It can be difficult to clearly see the input/output trends in the prevew when trying to perform debugging. Specifically it would be useful to isolate the mapped output(s) to see if the analytic it producing the expected results. The table is usefu...
Mike Horrocks 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Define default scheduling for newly created PI Analyses

When creating new analyses with Asset Analytics, our users sometimes forget to modify the scheduling from natural to periodic, which might lead to high trigger ratios and degraded performance. AF should allow administrators to define the default a...
Rafael Batista 8 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Refrain from creating PI Points when AF Analytics is doing an expensive calcultion

If it can be known that the Analytics service is busy with an expensive calculation, the Data Archive should pause on creating PI Points, as this is also an expensive operation and may interfere with the calculation completion.
Laurie Dieffenbach 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Performance Tab "Jump to" Option

When trying to troubleshoot analyses and templates that may be causing poor performance on the "Management\Performance" tab, it can be tedious to locate the selected element to start determining why it's building in error count or taking a long ti...
Guest 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Add a performance counter which can measure if Event frame reconciliation is performed correctly

Currently we only can tell an event frame reconciliation is performed by the green check after auto calculation, and it is not very easy to monitor. Since event frame usually use for alarms to operators. Accuracy is very important. We try to avoid...
Guest 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status