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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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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Expand the plug-ins by default when PI System Management Tools is opened

PI administrators that keep their PI system up to date will likely hide all of the many deprecated plug-ins in PI System Management Tools. There are few enough plug-ins remaining that the left pane can be fully expanded to show all remaining plug-...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Permanently show descriptions underneath check boxes in PI SDK Utility → KST Cleanup

In PI SDK Utility → KST Cleanup, there are 3 check boxes and 1 text box. When a check box is checked, the check box's label and description are added to the text box. Since there are only 3 check boxes, just eliminate the text box and have each c...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 Declined

Allow applying PI AF attribute categories via the PowerShell commandlets

We need to be able to apply PI AF attribute categories via PowerShell! We can do this today via the AF SDK, by referencing it within PowerShell, but it's a pretty convoluted solution to move back and forth in between command-lets and direct AF SDK...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 Declined

PI SQL Commander usability suggestions

To make things easier for the user, please consider doing the following: • Move the contents of View, Query, Tools, and Help from the menu bar into the toolbar. This will reduce the click count from 2 to 1, and the toolbar has more than enough roo...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 Declined

Automatically restart services

Have a way to automatically have services restart, potentially tied to a health trigger value in a tag.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Detect if data is missing

Have a way to detect if data is missing.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Inconsistent spelling of "plug-in"

Go to PI System Management Tools. In the View menu, we see "Plug-Ins". If we click on Settings in the View menu, we see "plugins".
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Additional columns for tuning parameters

In PI System Management Tools → Operation → Tuning Parameters, add a "Unit" column and a "Takes Effect" column. Not only does this prevent having to click on the tuning parameter to know its unit, but it also shortens the tuning parameter's descr...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Dynamically show/hide button labels

Currently, every PI System Management Tools plug-in has buttons at the top. To know what a button does, you must hover over it and read the tooltip. If the PI SMT is maximized, the buttons usually use up very little of the horizontal space availab...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Strange punctuation in the PI Annotations Editor "save changes" message

In the PI Annotations Editor, which is accessible by clicking on "Annotations" after right-clicking on a value in the Archive Editor, if you make changes to the annotations and try to close the PI Annotations Editor without saving, the following m...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined