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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Remove Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools For Office Runtime (VSTO Runtime) from any install kits that contain PI AF Client

According to this, VSTO Runtime is included with PI AF Client for the sake of PI Builder. The installation of VSTO Runtime also causes the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable to be installed as well. However, accordin...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Document and have a dialouge that informs the user that Analysis backfilling does not observe compression settings.

Currently when backfilling an analysis with the PI Buffer Subsystem turned on, all values are sent to the PI Data Archive uncompressed. This is because values are perceived as out of order and these settings are not observed. This should be mentio...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 Declined

Documentation for differences between Operating System

It would be useful to have documented what the differences between OS versions for the PI Data Archive in terms of performance and capabilities.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 Declined

process book should have the accessibility of pi data link reports

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 1 Declined

PI Server 2018 SP3 default Points

Please exclude the information from PI Server 2018 SP3 installation and upgrade guide, which describe to check the Default Health Points as there are no default Points created in 2018 installation.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 5 Declined

Move Auditviewer function away from local PI System access

I want to run the Auditviewer function as a unprivileged remote user, moving away from the current requirement to run as a local user on the PI Data Archive Server.  This is so I can minimize security risk associated with local user access on...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Have an option in AF Security to not pass down database security to newly created objects

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Allowing users to edit IP Address for creating a trust with Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager

When creating a trust for the Buffer Subsystem with the Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager, the Wizard auto-populates the IP Address of the machine. Include an option to edit the IP Address that is auto-populated for machines that have mu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Be able to configure PI AF security in a single PI System Explorer window

Currently, there are 2 windows to configure PI AF security, and it is a pain to switch between them: File → Database → Edit Security, which is used to assign permissions to identities File → Server Properties → Identities tab and Mappings tab, whi...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Rename or add descriptions for Read, Write, Read Data, and Write Data permissions in PI System Explorer

In PI System Explorer, the definitions of the Read, Write, Read Data, and Write Data permissions are not clear from their names. Their names are also misleading. For example, Read permission can be interpreted as "General Read", making Read appear...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined