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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

Provide a way to show what has updated in a KB article

I usually look at all KB updates in the site. But, I don't know what has been added or updated in the KB! Please try to write or show what is new in the KB.
Guest over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 3 No status

Write a KB article that shows the succession of products

OSIsoft has made many products over the years, and many of those products have been deprecated and/or succeeded. The deprecation/succession documentation is currently scattered. Based on personal experience, this is extremely confusing for someone...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 2 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

Write a KB article that explains confusing PI terms

OSIsoft uses many synonyms and similar-sounding terms. This can get confusing, especially for beginners. Please write a KB article outlining some of these confusing terms. For example: Archived = historized = stored/saved in PI Backfill = backdate...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 3 No status

Replace the "http://techsupport.osisoft.com/" link in the "About" window of PI System Tray

The "About" window of PI System Tray contains the link "http://techsupport.osisoft.com/". However, this link does not use HTTPS and will redirect to "https://my.osisoft.com/". Please replace the link with an appropriate one that uses HTTPS and doe...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Allow for feedback on KB Articles

Currently, I can upvote or downvote, but not give any text feedback on a KB Article. I'd like to share feedback such "please including how to check the archive flag" or "error XYZ would also be resolved by this KB Article". This is possible in the...
Kelsey Bobeck over 1 year ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 0 No status