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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    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

    PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Subbranch filter depth

    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 however it recurses all sub-subbranches. We have an OPC server with around 20k items that we read into ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Add a method to the PI Web API's stream controller that only returns compressed events

    Currently, using the PI Web API's Stream GetRecorded method with an end time of now will return the latest snapshot. As a developer, I would like an additional method to be added that would return only events that have already gone through compres...
    Bethany Jewett 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 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 over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Public PI Web API Endpoint (for health checks)

    Currently, all endpoints of the PI Web API are access protected. When using the PI Web API with a load balancer (namely with managed load balancers from AWS/Azure), the health check endpoint for the servers must be configured to accept both 200 &a...
    Tyler Engelhardt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

    Have the ability to show hidden attributes in the response request for attributes

    When requesting attributes using /elements/{WebId}/attributes or child attributes using /attributes/{WebId}/attributes it would be nice to have an argument ?showHidden=true|false so that hidden attributes could be retrieved. I was trying to write ...
    Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

    Schedule PI Web API Crawls

    The customer would like the ability to schedule crawls for a specific AF database (it's quite large), so that crawls don't interrupt users who need to access the elements in the PI Vision search during their working hours.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 2 Declined

    Allow Creation of Acknowledgeable Event Frames

    The PI Web API exposes a "CanBeAcknowledged" property when reading Event Frames. However, this property is read-only: it cannot be supplied when creating a new Event Frame or updating an existing Event Frame. I would like the ability to include th...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 2 No status

    Writing to AF Table through PI Web API

    Currently PI WebAPI provides only the method UpdateData /Put Tables (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-Web-API/help/controllers/table/actions/updatedata.html) to insert data into an AF table and this method requires the entire table...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

    Make PI Web API responses more descriptive or allow developers to configure their own custom response fields.

    Currently if a PI Web API user attempts an action which is not allowed, the error handling is somewhat generic. Stream and Stream Set controller calls might contain an additional information in the response fields, but not always. e.g. Trying to ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status