AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interface for OPC DA

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PI Interface for OPC DA and VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR datatype

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Time Array" to manage numerical arrays but string arrays are not supported. It would be a good improvement to develop this feature for string arrays.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Enhance OPC server failover capability

Need to trigger failover when a watchdog tag is stale for a configurable duration.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Modifying the functionality of Trend Advise feature for PI OPC interface

As a PI OPC Interface user I would like to get step-like trends whenever that the Trend Advise parameter is enabled (even with having large exception and compression deviations that filter some of the events) so that I don't need to enable the ste...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

debug an arbitrary number of tags belonging to a PI OPC interface instance

It is currently possible to debug one tag, or all tags. Logging timestamp and data for all tags is expensive and make logs harder to read, so one one would like to select an arbitrary number of tags.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 Declined

PI Interface for OPC DA retry writing data when it receives a CONNECT_E_ADVISELIMIT error.

I would like the ability for the PI Interface for OPC DA to retry writing data when it receives a CONNECT_E_ADVISELIMIT error. Certain OPC servers return a CONNECT_E_ADVISELIMIT error when write requests are received in quick succession, and havin...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 Declined

Clamp Value at Limit

Ability to clamp or ignore values outside a threshold. Example would be to clamp the low value to 'zero' attribute and/or a high value at 'span' - many xmtrs read erratically when at limit (e.g., an empty flow transmitter often reads negative)
Pete Long about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Automatically recreate advise groups when they are discarded by RSLinx OPC Server

The Rockwell RSLinx OPC Server may discard advise groups when there are too many bad quality tags or incorrect ItemIDs added to the group. The PI Interface for OPC DA should automatically recreate advise groups after it has determined that the gro...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

PI OPCClient able to sort List of all structure instances

PI OPCClient able to sort List of all structure instances. Currently: Chronologically is pretty annoying. While listing the content of opc server structure, the folders are not listed alphabetically. While there are many items, export is not po...
ivan.mudron about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Support redundancy with OPC event tags

Currently, with OPC event tags, if the connection between the interface and PI Data Archive is broken and signups lost, the event tags will stop polling the OPC server for data. I would like to see a level of redundancy added whereby if the OPC-PI...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 Declined