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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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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System Management

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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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Add a "save changes" warning to the SMT Point Builder

In the Point Builder, if the user makes a change to one tag and they click on a different tag, ask them if they want to save/discard changes.
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

Have better default column widths, dynamic auto-fitting of columns

When I first open PI System Management tools, the column widths in many of the plug-ins that use tables usually don't make much sense. For example, some columns start off too narrow to show the entirety of their longest value, which might not be t...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Monitor the health of analytics/notifications

As a user of asset-analytics and notifications, I need an  easy way to know that PI Analysis and PI Notifications services are in good health and that event frames/notifications are being generated/sent as expected
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

Track if auditing was turned off

I want the ability to track if auditing was turned off for the PI System (PI Data Archive and AF) so that I can determine if there was the risk of potential changes that were not captured by PI System audit functions.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 10 Evaluating

Progress Bar for deleting large volumes of data in SMT->Archive editor.

Progress bar for SMT->Archive Editor when deleting large volume of data. Currently, when deleting around 30,000 events it takes approx 20 mins and the GUI appears to hang and become unresponsive (it is actually working). A progress bar would a...
Dave Tayler over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined