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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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Search ability in AF Client on more than just element.

It would be nice to be able to search anything when it comes to AF Client. If I wanted to search and find reference to all Motor Speed Attributes.If I wanted to search on where a tag 'Sinusoid' for example was referenced in:Attributes, Analysis', ...
BrentWebsterADM over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 No status

Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Support DST Transition on Second Granularity in PI SDK

A user tries to retrieve date with timestamp 03-Nov-2018 23:59:59 (1 second before Daylight Saving Time beginning) in PI SMT, but the returned event has a timestamp of 04-Nov-2018 00:59:59. This is because PISDK timezone design is such that it can...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 Declined

Add ApplyToChildren option to PowerShell cmdlet AddAFSecurity

Cmdlet AddAFSecurity does NOT have an ApplyToChildren setting, causing me to need to add security to all sub-objects: https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-powershell/page/html/T_OSIsoft_PowerShell_AddAFSecurity.htm RemoveAFSecurity DOES have thi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 No status

Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

Rearrange the Archive tab in the Point Builder to reflect the relationship between settings

If the Compressing attribute of a PI Point is set to Off, then the compression settings are greyed out, which makes sense because they are irrelevant if Compressing is Off. However, if a PI Point has its Archiving attribute set to Off, nothing is ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Tell us more

Normalized view of the Database Security Table

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined