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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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Support Analysis Backfill of Source Tag

Many of our source tags sending data to a central Data Archive are populated with data from analyses on the source AF Server. This creates two problems when we perform a backfill that recalculates data over a specified timespan for the source tag:...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 0 No status

Enhance element creation to use user defined element templates

The interface can automatically create an element at each level of event frames, but the elements do not derive from a template and there is no way to specify any attributes on the element. The enhancement request is to create elements that are ba...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files

PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files.  Files that get renamed to .999 is no longer available with PI EMDVB.  This file renaming feature was very useful from a system maintenance perspective.  We would easily remove .999 from the...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

PI EFGen 4.1+ has limited recovery capabilities

Up to PI EFGen 4.0, we were able to backfill OOO Event Frames by simply inputting the start and end time of the corresponding period. Since 4.1, this must be done in a per-event basis, since larger time ranges are modified so that RST matches the ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 No status

DeltaV Smart Connector configurability

Smart Connector foo DeltaV should let user configure some default attributes for tags created: - User should be able to define what the default point security should be - User should be able to decide if tags should be created as Poll or Advise
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Add a Trace Route feature to PI Ping interface

Add ping -i feature to the interface and allow for either the output of the ping time or destination in the PI tag. Case: This will allow for IT to monitor the network path taken in communication from one site to another. If the route has change...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Have the FTB Interface support multiple stop events for Unit Procedures

There are instances where a batch must be manipulated creating two Unit Released events in the event file. The desired behavior for the PI FactoryTalk Batch Interface would be for the second end time to overwrite the first end time when data is be...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface not truncate the trailing "-#" index (e.g. UnitProcedureName-1) at the end of a Unit Procedure

Some FactoryTalk batch processes have overlapping Unit Procedures with trailing indexes. Because the trailing index is truncated it results in overlapping Unit Procedures with the same name which are then merged. The desired behavior would be for ...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface capture "Active Step Change Commencing" events as event frames

Some FactoryTalk batch processes require "Active Step Change Commencing" event to be part of the batch hierarchy however the PI Interface for Factory Talk Batch starts event frames only on [EVENT] = "System Message" or "State Change".
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status