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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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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Data Archive

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Provide more user-friendly way to configure backups

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Support storing data quality

As a user I want to be able to collect, store and analyze quality information associated with real-time events and assets. This feature will allow the user to determine the trustworthiness of the data when decisions are made. Note: This was previ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Association of Multiple Tags That Represent Same Measurement

As a PI admin, I would like to associate mutiple tags together that represent the same measurement at different time periods SO THAT users see one set of data together instead of the old data in the old tag and the new data in the new tag after DC...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Make a GUI for PI Backups for easy management

It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files. Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You could...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI Data Archive: Improve piarchss performance

PI Archive Subsystem should be able to use operating memory more efficiently. For example by loading as many non-primary archives into its process memory as possible (perhaps it could be affected by a user setting).
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Remove grayed out PI Tag Configurator link in newer versions of SMT

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Add a Confirmed Write methods

All methods exposed through AF SDK and other Developer Technologies are "fire and forget". Please add methods, at least for time series data, which return when the data has been processed. A write operation that returns when data has been process...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Show the AF SQL hostname server in SMT

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Auto-balance archive files

The disadvantage of fixed archives is that they cannot grow or shrink. The disadvantage of dynamic archives is that they can potentially grow too much. Merging of small archives and splitting of large archives must be done manually. To solve this...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined