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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PI Web API

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Implement FindChangedPIPoints

Add a PIServer.FindChangedPIPoint implementation to allow easily detecting changes to the point table. Today one has to periodically load all PI Points to find and react on potential changes. Especially with larger point counts these operations ca...
Guest about 2 years 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 about 2 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 about 2 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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

Drop support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

The blog post linked below urges customers to disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 but also mentions that PI Web API supports them. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/s/Blog-Detail/a8r1I000000GvqGQAS/tls-best-practices-for-pi-web-api Please drop support for TLS ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

improve webapi cache instances info

Now the WebAPI gives us some basic info about the cache instances, mainly user account and expiration parameters. To understand the loading of the webAPI by different users (adapters), it would be useful to know how big the cache is per user (adap...
sahilp about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

Support attribute types referencing AF Elements and Attributes

We use attributes to reference elements and attributes extensively to model context and relationships in our AF models. Is this going to be supported in the future? Kind regards, Gregor
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

Support multiple entries for nameFilters.

We would like to GET elements/id/attributes?nameFilter=attr1name;attr2name;attr3name - like an OR statement in SQL. This would be consistent with selectedFields=webid;path;name Currently we would have to either make more or heavier batch calls, o...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 3 Declined

Provide programmatic interface to manage OMF applications

Enable Create,Read, Update, Delete operations for OMF applications via an API so that the process is standardized and efficient/effective as opposed to manual and error prone, especially for larger numbers of apps.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined