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 AF Table to use subsecond timestamps for DateTime columns

    Allow DateTime columns in AF Tables to show subseconds Events come in with very similar timstamps except subsecond level. For example 2025-01-14 03:55:01.533 XYZ and 2025-01-14 03:55:01.833 ABC but in AF Table columns subsecond is not show so both...
    Guest about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

    Possibility to change units of template based attributes

    I have template based elements including analysis that can be used for calculations with a variety of units (tonnes, MWh,...). So it would be great to have the possibility to change the units of template based attributes. At the moment they are fi...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

    More customizable filter options for the PI AF Audit Trail

    As a user of the PI AF Audit Trail, I would like more customizable filter options.  For example, I would like to be able to query changes "not equal" to a string.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

    AF should react better to unhandled exceptions from a linked table provider

    When an OLE DB or ODBC provider returns an unhandled exception for a linked table to the PI AF Application Service , it would be better for it either handle the exception and not crash, or to log the exception, the linked table name and provider n...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

    "Connect As" to the Analysis Service From PI System Explorer

    The "Connect As" feature only changes the Asset Framework Connection and still uses the user who runs the application to connect to the Analysis service. This causes a confusion for end users as they cannot perform their analyses operations (e.g. ...
    Mohammed Qasim Asghar 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Informative error message for the OMF Client

    If the OMF Type Template is missing, for example if it is manually deleted, sending an OMF Data Message via PI Web API returns the exception "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" via PI Web API. This gives no hint about the missin...
    Abishek Lakandri about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

    Provide the ability to have attribute template that can be used in multiple element templates (attribute sets)

    As an user I want to be able to configure attribute templates that can be used in multiple element templates, so that I can used common attributes between different templates. For example, create three templates representing 3 different kinds of m...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

    Add read perrmission to the Event Frame Template

    It would be great to add read permission to the security table of EF Template. Now you can't deny read access to one specific EF Template. You can only deny access to all templates and to generated EFs, but not to specific template. This can be a...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

    Limit element creation using reference types

    I’m designing an AF database where we want most things to be correctly set up and planned on the template side, so that end-users can create the AF content later. One of the functionalities I use is creating my own reference types i PI System Expl...
    Asle Frantzen over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Use %Duration% with Formula Data Reference as Best Practice for EF Duration Attribute (AF 2017 R2+)

    This is a followup to discussions with Roger Palmen and Rick Davin about their excellent writeups on the topic of EF Duration attributes; see Event Frame duration - easy way in AF2.6 or higher & Duration attribute on an Event Frame - Part 1 , ...
    Brent Bregenzer over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined