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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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DeltaV Smart Connector Update to OPC UA

The newest release of DeltaV has the capabilities of enabling an OPC UA server that could be used to transmit realtime date from DeltaV to the PI database. Right now, the interface between the two systems uses OPC DA. With DeltaV's plan to migrate...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 3 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Eliminate need for Tag Filter File in PI Connector for OPC UA Gen 2

For the user who just wants to pull all available tags from the OPC UA server, I should not have to enter a tag filter file when running a PI connector in tags only mode.
George Hauck 6 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Reduce Number of Point Sources for PI Connector for PI System Health

PI Connector for PI System Health creates a LOT of different point sources for the Pi points it creates on the Data Archive. Some customer may prefer to not have so many point sources show up for one interface/connector. Adding a method to reduce/...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 2 No status

Warm and cold PI Connector for OPC UA failover

Currently only hot failover is featured for the PI Connector for OPC UA but this creates a lot of strain on the data sources. We need to be able to select warm/cold failover mechanism.
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Create/Write to Child Attributes

I would like to be able to write to Child attributes with the UFL connector using the StoreInElement function. Currently, it seems that the Connector cannot write to or create an attribute with a path like: ..\Element|ParentAttribute|ChildAttribu...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL Connector Event Frame Generator enhancement and bugfixes

Currently it is not possible to create an event frame from the PI UFL Connector linked to an existing element, despite the documentation does not specifically mention this restriction, you can only link the new event frame to an element created wi...
Andy almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 2 No status

New function for Ethernet/IP (“scanner”)

Add the function to able to act as (“scanner”). At this moment the connect can only act as an adapter, that means that It can't collect data from other device that also are connector is an adapter. https://www.odva.org/Technology-Standards/EtherNe...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Have more KPIs/diagnostics for PI System Connector

In Data Collection Manager, it would be good to have a status on Currently Synchronized Elements, Events, Tags, structure. Be able to count the events and tags that failed to synchronize since some time. Missing values in tags between source and d...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Tell us more

Enable/Disable Compression on Tags

First, compression should be on by default for tags, like it is for tags created via other means. Second, if folks do want it off, it should be a setting to enable globally right from the Connector.
Kelsey Bobeck 3 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status