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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    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 about 4 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 about 4 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 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

    Official testing/support for application virtualization

    Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

    Update all PI client tools to use file based KST

    PI SQL commander still relies on the registry hosted known server table. This results in users requiring both PI SQL Commander, AF client, and PISDK to configure there known server tables. Furthermore, users would now have to maintain two identica...
    GaryYegiazaryan 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 1 No status

    Add a PI PowerShell cmdlet to find all installed PI software and which installation kit installed it

    As someone tasked with upgrading PI environments, it would be nice if there was a tool such as a PI PowerShell cmdlet that would retrieve all of the version information for all installed PI software on a given machine, as well as which install kit...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 1 Declined

    Import-AFXml (PowerShell) should have ContinueOnError option

    Both AFImport.exe and ImportXml (AFSDK) have options to continue on error (like is something is checked out or if there is a duplicate element name). For some reason the PowerShell version doesn't. This should be added.
    taterhead247 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 2 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 about 4 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 about 4 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 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status