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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.

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.


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Add documentation to AF Databases

As we adopt more and more AF databases as part of how we do business, the ability to easily maintain them becomes more and more important. We have created documents to detail the business process flow to follow to update AF databases, but these a...
andrew_Inwood about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add the ability to specify NULL values in manually created AF Tables

When manually creating an AF Table (i.e., an internal AF table) in PI System Explorer having the ability to specify a NULL value would be beneficial. Not all datasets require a value for each cell and not all tables need to be linked to, or import...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Sort values numerically/by size when using Time Series Data in PI System Explorer for a numeric attribute value type

Currently when viewing Time Series Data for a numeric attribute value type (e.g Double, Single) in PI System Explorer, sorting the value column will sort the results alphabetically (e.g. 1, 10, 2, 20, 3...) and not by size (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 10, 20). ...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Transfer Saved searches: This option will allow to transfer event frames "saved searches" from one computer to another.

Transfer Saved searches: This option will allow transferring event frames "saved searches" from one computer to another. For customers who have many search criteria, it is time-consuming to rebuild again on another PC.
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

UNIINT Interfaces and Connectors should be able to retry an output event if output write fails

When an interface fails writing to a DCS system, the interface writes a failure status to the output tag and goes on.  User has requested an option to have an output tag retry after write failure. It would be good to have this functionality i...
jdjohnstn about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Support data collection across data diodes or similar technology

Regulatory and/or security requirement to separate data collection from data storage using a one-way data flow. Could apply to Interfaces or Connectors, for example PI Interface for Emerson Ovation. PI Interface/Connector -> one-way data flow -...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Migrate the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework to use PI AF SDK

Most PI Interfaces are based on the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework and rely on PI API and its successor, PI SDK. PI SDK has, in turn, been superseded by PI AF SDK. PI SDK also relies on the deprecated and insecure ActiveX technology, wh...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Ability to define if an analysis will be inherited from a base template.

I would like to easily define if a derived template will inherit an analysis. This derived template should have a check box on the analysis that says: 'Do not Inherent'. Without this option I have to disable the analyses mapped to the derived temp...
Alex Santos about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow PI Collective members to be permanently represented by alias names

For example, in PI SDK, when viewing "member setup" for a PI Collective, it is desired for the names of the members to always be represented as a DNS alias or SDK alias. At the outset of PI Collective creation, in PI Collective Manager for instanc...
Ryan Biggins about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Subscription Templates

I'm currently working on a project to push notifications immediately to a database, via REST delivery endpoint. However, each delivery endpoint needs to be subscribed per notification rule, AND also configured. Configuration can take awhile to do,...
Milin Roshan over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status