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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.

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Allow the UFL interface to delete PI tag data or provide some other supported automated method of deleting PI data from a collective.

There is no way to easily delete data in a time range if you want the changes to occur on both the primary and secondary data archive. It seems the UFL interface would be good to use to do this. You could provide it a tag name and time range and t...
Heather Boehler over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 3 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

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

and operator

Add a function that can be used in the UFL Configuration File to perform bitwise operations. For example, a function similar to the AND operator in Performance Equations and Asset Analytics.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 Declined

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

Support Automatic Failover for PI UFL

Currently UFL only supports two independent instances for redundancy purposes.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 Declined

Add Check In / Check Out button to PI Builder

It would be useful to add a Check In and Check Out button to PI Builder. So if any undesired change is made, it can be undone.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

PI UFL ._OK file rename should be after parsing to avoid data loss during shutdowns

My understanding of UFL (confirmed by tech support) is that it will rename files to ._OK extension before loading lines into memory. This means that if the service is stopped (such as during an update) and it has not completely read into memory an...
Davin Ross over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Provide PI Builder Functionality In A Google Sheets Add-on

A significant number of companies are moving from the Microsoft Office suite to "G Suite" (Google). This move takes customers from MS Excel to Google Sheets, and they would like to retain PI Builder as a functional add-on.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status