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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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SMT: Add navigation from Current Values display to Tag Editor

Many times I have been in SMT and looking at current values.  But some of the values are not correct, I have to copy the name of the PI tag, go to Point Builder, either search for the PI tag or start to type the PI tag in search and then popu...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 3 Declined

Make installation and upgrade of PI System Health easy

PI System Health will be very helpful to us for monitoring our large PI Infrastructure of hundreds of nodes. Aside from the large number of nodes, some of these machines, mainly Interfaces, are not easy to access for any install or upgrade, so hav...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Support for Windows event logging

As a system administrator, I need to integrate PI System logging into my SEIM, so that I can manage PI System events consistent with other applications in a centrally managed system. Most PI System applications leverage the Applications and Serv...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Configuration as Code PI System wide

"As a business owner, I want to set up change control procedures where any change to the PI System, be it the data archive, asset framework, PI Interfaces, PI Connectors, or any other component is done through a change in source controlled configu...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

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 about 2 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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Allow PIWorld and piusers to be deleted

Nobody should be using the "PIWorld" PI Identity or the "piusers" PI Group. The most that we can do at the moment is disable them. It would be much better if we can just delete them and never look back.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status