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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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    In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

    The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

    Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

    PI Datalink officially supports Excel 2024

    My customer is using PI Datalink with Excel2024 instead of Excel365 because policy prevents the addition or update of each person's Excel functionality. I would like to add Excel2024 to the PI DataLink Compatibility Matrix for these customers.
    Yusuke Hirao 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status

    Have a consistent presence of a terminating \ in the PIHOME and PIHOME64 environment variables

    By default, PIHOME is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC" and PIHOME64 is "C:\Program Files\PIPC\". For new installations, please consider either having the terminating \ on both or removing the terminating \ from both. The current inconsistency can con...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

    When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

    The PI Server Installation kit should list the PI software requirements sooner in the install

    As a PI System Administrator, I would like the PI Server Installation kit to list out any PI Software that will be included with a selected role or feature before the Summary step so that I can determine what will be installed without having to fi...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Installer screen should read 'PI Data Archive Install Directory' instead of 'PI Data Archive Directory'

    For an upgrade - misleading - could be interpreted as the folder where PI archives currently reside.
    BruceMcCamant over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Install and run PI DataLink on ARM-based processors

    DataLink is commonly used by end-users on their laptops and ARM-based processors are becoming increasingly common for corporate laptops. Support for running x86/x64 PI DataLink on ARM processors in emulated environments would benefit a lot of cust...
    Zoe Altenberg about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status

    Consistently name the local groups that PI adds

    Some examples of names of the local groups that PI adds are: AFQueryEngines AFServers PI Buffering Administrators PI Connector Administrators PI Web API Admins Please consider making the naming more consistent. For example: PI Asset Framework Que...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined

    In future releases of PI Server, provide an installer that does not install itself in Windows Programs & Features.

    Regulations and rules require pre-installation approval and documentation of all programs installed on a machine. Please provide an installer or a method of installation that prevents the installer from appearing in Programs & Features. Furth...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined