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.

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    Generate error when header is misspelled

    When editing PI Points, PI Builder does not return any error if one of the headers is wrong or misspelled. Simply, nothing is edited for that header and you  only find out at a later time when looking at the PI point. It would be useful if PI...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

    Use Excel tables to contain PI Builder data

    PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework. Benefits of PI Builder using tables: • filters ar...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

    Allow PI Builder to be used with Windows Store Application version of Excel

    If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry. PI...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Filter by OPC ItemID

    The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch like the PI APS Connector for OPC DA interface, but unlike the APS Connector, it is not possible to fil...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Retain cell formatting after PI Builder "Retrieve" actions

    When I use datalink, it will not overwrite my cell formatting like background color. When I use PI Builder to retrieve data, it overwrites all cell formatting. Can you please edit your PI Builder code to behave more like Datalink in regard to pres...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 4 No status

    Subsecond Cropping for Improved Timestamp Handling

    The OPCDA interface currently can only handle subsceonds by ignoring them as mentioned in "Ignore Subsecond Timestamps" under PI Interface for OPC DA - Data Handling settings. However there are use cases where users would like to simply limit the ...
    Mohammed Shahin about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Include the "Primary Parent" checkbox functionality under PSE's "Change Reference Type" dialog in PI Builder

    In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    Change behavior to retrieve contacts in bulk

    In a large scale deployment, or in an undersized system retrieving AF Contacts, or accessing the subscription tab on a Notification Rule can be slow. A solution is of course to properly size the system or reduce the scale, however there is a compo...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

    AutoPointSync for OPC DA should work on 64bit servers.

    AutoPointSync for OPC DA does not install or run correctly on 64bit servers. As most new servers are 64bit this would seem to be an essential capability.
    zubzub over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

    change the default behavior of the OPC DA interface to use /DC

    per the OPC DA 2.x spec, the OPC server will call us back for all points that have a changes; even those points where we are polling. We have a switch to disable the callbacks for points that are not set to advise: /DC Can we make that the defau...
    Clint Ramsey over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status