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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    PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Subbranch filter depth

    The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch however it recurses all sub-subbranches. We have an OPC server with around 20k items that we read into ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Uni-Int to write to scan-class health tags on startup

    We've noticed this particularly with the RDBMS-PI interface when configured for failover: Health tags that are only written to when the interface becomes primary or has completed its first scan (eg Point Count, Scan Class I/O Rate etc.) say 'Intf ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

    Separate commonly used PI Interfaces that do not have a successor into read-only and write-only versions

    Currently, it is recommended to use the read-only version of a PI Interface if only reading is required, and to have separate read and write instances of the read-write version of a PI Interface if writing is required. (Reference: https://docs.osi...
    Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

    Allow using SQL as a data source for FactoryTalk Batch

    Rockwell FactoryTalk Batch v12.01 allows to output batch data to a SQL database as well as EVT files. Just like with EMDVB, the PI Interface for FTBatch should be able to use both data sources.
    Alan Izar almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

    OPC AE: add history recovery feature

    There is a stronger market demand to have more alarm data in PI so that the alarms can be analysed together with the process data. Existing (as of Oct 2019) PI OPC AE Interface does not support history recovery. Without the history recovery featur...
    AM(CSL) almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    Use tags as inputs for configuing multi state thresholds

    I want to use a tag insatead of a hard coded number to break out multi state configurations in PiVision displays. For example, if the goal is for a box to fill red when a certain value is reached.. I want that to be able to reference a tag, so it ...
    Guest about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / User Experience 0 No status

    Include MSXML with the latest version of the PI Interface for OPC XML-DA

    The Read-Only version of the PI Interface for OPC XML-DA (1.7.3.40) does not contain the msxml4 library necessary for communicating with the OPC XML-DA. The workaround is to install the Read-Write version of the interface and then the Read-Only ve...
    Randy Giguere over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 No status

    PI Interface for Performance Monitor - Parameter to Ignore Device Status for Failover Pairs

    When machines being monitored by the Performance Monitor Interface go offline, PerfMon Interfaces in failover pairs can thrash due to the health point device status for the machines not being resolved after a failover event. (The machine is still ...
    Joshua Weishaar 7 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    Adjust Font size for PI Vision UI

    As a PI Vision user, I would like to be able to adjust the font size of text in each part of the PI Vision UI (Asset pane, Search pane, Configuration pane, etc.) for better readability with larger resolution screens. The ability to save a differen...
    Jason Lu almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / User Experience 0 No status

    Programmable limits on a Trend's traces.

    Allow tags and calculations in the limits field, when setting limits for a trace. ie: For a tag, or calculation called: 'TARGET_TEMPERATURE' Allow the upper value of the trace be: 'TARGET_TEMPERATURE' + 'RANGE' Where 'RANGE' is either a real numbe...
    Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / User Experience 0 No status