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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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PI AF Security - More Granularity Needed

It would be helpful if AF's security model was more granular. For example (and please correct me if I am wrong), the same settings that allow someone to add/modify UOMs in AF is the same setting that allow someone to change the AF Sever name. This...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Support for data classification

As a PI admin, I need to ensure that my data access and handling complies with classifications or levels of sensitivity. Background Regulations and compliance regimes require different controls for data based on the classification of data. Relat...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

AMI Interface: allow meter data to be writable to PI Point attributes

Synced to PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/29455 Currently, meter data can only be written to static attributes. Historizing the meter data may be useful if there are expected changes that should be monitored.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

Allow Buffer to communicate with other buffer

Currently the PI Buffer Subsystem only has the capability to speak directly with the Data Archive. This setup can have a negative impact on your Cyber Security setup as you are not able to leverage the DMZ between the IT/OT networks as it is desig...
Shaun Longworth over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

Allow case-sensitive filtering on PI Point Value in Search Dialog

PI DataLink 2017 added the ability to filter searches based on a PI Point's current value.   For searching on PI Point's with string values, it would be great if there was a way to do a case-sensitive search.  A ‘case-sensitive’ che...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Add a unit column for data item searches

In data item searches, it would be useful to have a column that shows the engineering unit or default UOM of the returned results. This helps assure the user that they chose the correct data item and confirms the data item's unit with the user.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Include Option to Install Legacy Add-Ins Via Installation Wizard

Many users utilize the legacy add-ins for DataLink through VBA code.  Starting with DataLink 2016, the add-ins are not installed by default and so upgrades and new installations can prevent existing spreadsheets from working if additional ste...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined

PI DataLink service for PI Server

To minimize the amount of data that is returned from the PI Servers, and to make the PI DataLink computers more like thin clients, consider making a service for the PI Servers (PI Data Archive + PI Asset Framework) that handles PI DataLink request...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined

Allow VBA to hide array formula Task Panes

Excel VBA code can invoke the resize/recalculate function on Datalink array formulae.  However this requires selection of the array and this pulls the appropriate Task Pane into view (unless the Datalink setting is in force that turns this of...
tinklerj over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 Declined

To add filtering by several templates

Element Template field doesn't accept multi-cell referencing - only the 1st referenced cell will take effect. Known Issue 91547 is exist. The issue is that not all attributes displayed in the attribute to display section on the Asset Filter Searc...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined