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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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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

Add Time Offset Option to OPC UA Connector

Please add a time offset option to the OPC UA Connector, similar to the old OPC DA interface (see attached screenshot). In come cases the OPC UA server may not actually be sending timestamps that are in UTC (ex. in local time) so an offset is nee...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

An import-export feature for PI Connector for OPC UA similar to the one used to configure OPC DA points

Having to select the OPC UA server points to import from a list with thousands of points where a naming rule is not followed is a never-ending task using the OPC UA Connector web interface. My suggestion is to create an interface similar to the on...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

Add a checkbox disabling Tag and Element creation

Case1: OPC UA Connector configured in a way that if the automation system will offer new tags, they will be created on PI system automatically. However, this makes running out of tags on the PI Server. Is there a possibility to start the OPC UA Co...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

Warn the user of unsaved changes in the Archive Editor

Currently, unsaved changes in the Archive Editor are silently discarded if the user refreshes the tab, closes the tab, performs a new search in the same tab, or exits PI System Management Tools. Please instead warn the user of their unsaved change...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

By default, do not install the PI Module Database Builder when the PI System Management Tools install kit is run

Similar to how the PI DataLink install kit included PI DataLink (Legacy) but required manual modification to setup.ini in order to install it (this was before PI DataLink Legacy was dropped from the PI DataLink install kit entirely), the PI Module...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Make the tuning parameter PointDb_RemoveEmptySource visible by default

This tuning parameter toggles the automatic deletion of unused point sources. By default, it is hidden and the automatic deletion is disabled. Point sources are used mainly for PI Interfaces, which are slowly being replaced with PI Connectors and...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Expose "Tuning Parameters" in AFSDK

It would be very intesting to access tuning parameters (that are present in PI SMT) via AFSDK. This is interesting when you have to manage dozens of PI DA servers and you want to ensure they are all correctly configured (and no change are performe...
Gael over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Allow the data type of PI Points to be set manually with PI connector for OPCUA

[Background]We know that when use PI Connetor for OPCUA, the data type of the PI Point is synchronized with the OPC server settings. But we would like to set deferent one.e.x.) -Datatype of OPC Server tag : "String" -Data type wanted to be set for...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden about 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status