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

11 VOTE

Allow PI Points to use the UOM database in PI AF

The Engineering Unit attribute of PI Points does not offer the same robustness as UOMs, which are only available in PI AF. Also, the user must set both the PI Point Engineering Unit and the element attribute UOM manually and separately, which is r...

Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

4 VOTE

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Tell us more

4 VOTE

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

2 VOTE

Have PI System Tray notify the user when an error occurs with analysis (any) on AF Server

PI System Tray is pretty useful to warn about errors in PI Data Archive. It would be very good if it could warn about failed analysis so actions can be taken in a timely fashion

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

1 VOTE

Spelling mistake in Archive_AutoArchiveFileSize's description

In the description of the tuning parameter Archive_AutoArchiveFileSize, "occurs" is misspelled as "occurrs". This misspelling is also followed by a semicolon instead of a period.

Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 No status

1 VOTE

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

1 VOTE

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

1 VOTE

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

8 VOTE

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

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