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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My ideas: Asset Framework (AF)

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Ability to Configure Display Digits of an Attribute in PI AF

As a PI Coresight user I would like the ability to configure the display digits of an AF attribute so I can control how attribute data is displayed on my PI Coresight displays. Right now, for PI Point data references the display digits must be con...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 15 Completed

Support SQL Azure as a PI AF SQL backend

As an administrator, I want to use SQL Azure as the database backend for my PI AF databases, so that I can offload the SQL adminstrative tasks to Azure.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 17 Completed

Support "abstract" templates in AF

There is a need to create "abstract" element templates in AF, and this has been requested several times. 2012: https://pisquare.osisoft.com/message/4172 2014: https://pisquare.osisoft.com/message/27621#comment-27621 2017: https://pisquare.osisof...
Asle Frantzen over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed

Improve search Capabilities of Management Tab

A few minor improvements to the search and filtering capabilities of the management tab could save time when doing backfills at scale - for example after transferring several elements from a development server.  If possible the following sear...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 Completed

Make it possible to sync AF enumeration sets to PI digital state sets.

With enumeration sets in AF being similar to Digital State sets in the Data Archive, it would be handy if it was possible to automatically sync enumeration sets to digital state sets. For scenarios that rely heavily on such sets, this would greatl...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 13 Completed

"Network Manager" for PI AF Server

One of the common requests for health is the ability to track connections from clients.  PI Data Archive has a much more native capability (Network Manager Statistics). Currently, client connectivity can be tracked via modifications to the ....
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed

PI System Explorer should not jump between attributes when a field is selected for editing

In PI System Explorer, if you double click on an attributes Name (or Value fields when the value type is string), it highlights the contained text to show it is being edited. If you start typing, it will replace the existing text, and the Home and...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Completed

Configurable default Attribute ConfigString

Right now, when you create an attribute in a template and assign it a Data Reference of PI Point, it defaults to a ConfigString of "\\%Server%\%Attribute%". %Server% has some known administrative headaches because what it populates as is dependent...
taterhead247 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed

PI AF Audit Trail: Option to exclude certain (tchnical interface) users from being audited

PI AF Audit Trail: Option to exclude certain (technical interface) users from being audited Currently the only option for AF Server is to activate or disable audit trail. In our scenario most data is written by interfaces via SDK Calls. This lead...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 Completed

Improve the AFDatabase security model

Please remove the database level write access requirement to modify objects below the database level. This will: 1. Prevent users who should only have subobject write access from modifying the database. 2. Make the security model more intuitive ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed