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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.

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: PI Connectors

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Make the PI Data Collection Manager more user friendly for setting up the connector and Relay

Customer from case 01234736 has mentioned that it can be confusing having the Connector Administration and PI Data Collection Manager have the options to modify and configure the PI Connectors 2.x. For example, when configuring the Data Source, yo...
Guest 10 days ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status
106 VOTE

PI OPC UA Connector Array support

Add reading capability for OPC UA Arrays. Currently items with “ValueRank“ = 1 are ignored.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 No status

Support HTTP Token Authentication to a REST Endpoint

The REST endpoint from which I want to pull data requires token authentication. I would like the UFL Connector to be able to obtain the token given the username and password I enter on the Admin page.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 6 No status

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden 15 days ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Control which PI/AF servers each data source sends data to.

Right now, for one instance of the connector, all configured data sources will send data to all configured PI Data Archives and PI AF Servers. It is all or nothing. Due to the fact that you cannot have multiple instances of the same connector on a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite 5 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Add Configuration Export/Import function for Data Collection Manager

It would be helpful to export and import the configuration of the data collection manager to make tasks like moving Data Collection Manager to a new host easier. Our current information from PI Support Team is, that we have do configure from scrat...
Fabian Ufer 24 days ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Ability for PI Connectors to create future data point

Add the ability for PI Connectors to create future data point. This is especially useful for the PI Connector for UFL. The current workaround is to manually create the point as a StoredValues=FutureData.
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

OPC UA: Set PI Tag Zero and Span Based on OPC UA Range

For OPC UA Analog Items, the OPC UA standard mandates an EURange property and an optional InstrumentRange property. These Range properties contain a Low and High field.The PI Connector for OPC UA should have an option to use either of these Ranges...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Enable setting tag attributes in UFL Connector

UFL Connector should have ways to set tag attributes. There should be way to set the default compression and exception settings and also other tag attributes like point and data security.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 3 No status