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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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In a string builder DR, allow use of substituted values from non PI point DRs to retrieve an attribute value

If I have two AF databases, I would like to pull the value of an attribute from one database to another. The string builder path for the other database's attribute requires a value substitution from a non PI point DR from in the target AF DB (whic...
Paul Kim about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Create a new function indicating if the string can be turned into a number

Create a new function indicating if the string can be turned into a number. For example, IsNumber() function could return 1 if the string can be turned into a number 0 if not.
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Create a clearer, shorter INI file syntax

Most of the problems appear in the FIELD, MSG, and message sections of the INI file. Note the difference in clarity, readability, and length between the current and proposed syntaxes below. Current syntax: [FIELD] FIELD(1).NAME="Tag" FIELD(1).T...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 Declined

UFL Interface - Option for PRINT statement to not write to PI SDK log

I use PRINT statements in my UFL ini files to help identify points that need to be created or edited in our PI System. The ini file has useful parameters to help me manage the size of UFL logs on the disk. Unfortunately all the PRINT messages also...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL: Support String Interpolation for Print() Function

Allow Print() function to evaluate runtime variables before outputting text to the log. For example: I have created a Counter variable that increments for each event that is successfully sent to PI. I would like to output the final tally to the l...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 No status

PI UFL MULTIPLE Language Support

PI UFL currently supports only english. I would like PI UFL to read multiple language, for my case japanese character. PI UFL does not support to extract data from line with japanese character contained. For example, when Message Type-> Messa...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Provide ability to disable purge behavior of UFL interface

The PI Interface for UFL includes a PURGETIME setting to purge successfully processed files (_OK) after some period of time. We have a case where we do not want to purge processed files. We want the data to be in PI but want to preserve the origin...
LClark about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Support Key-Pair Authentication In PI AF Table Link

Currently AF Table link only support username and password. With increasing security requirement this is becoming more and more problematic. AF table Link requires unattended connectivity, and updating password every 90 days is not practical. As a...
Barry Hu about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Ability to reprocess individual points to handle digital set changes

Current functionality: When changing a point from digital set A to digital set B, all events going forward will use digital set B. If you do not reprocess the archives, the events that were archived before the digital state was changed remain asso...
GaryYegiazaryan about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Have Platform Common services for PI use least privilege access on the Azure directory

Some Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) administrators will be hesitant to give the registered application for the AIM Server Directory.Read.All privileges. It should be feasible to give the application lesser privileges on the directory while stil...
Housnat Aboubacar about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status