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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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OMF: Swagger Specification

I think it would be beneficial to have a Swagger Specification for OMF similar to what currently exists for the PI Web API. As a programmer, I would like to be able to reduce startup time by having a pre-existing libraries that allow me to reduce ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 Declined

Option to disable DataLink automatic grouping

As a creator of DataLink spreadsheets, I would like to have the option to disable DataLink automatic grouping so that I can apply an input to one function (ex. filter expression, conversion factor, etc.) without it being applied to the entire grou...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

OMF: Binary data format support

Provide a binary data format option in addition to JSON in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

OMF: Ability to patch data messages

Add the ability to provide partial information for an existing data point. This is meant as a partial update which replaces values for some properties of a type without affecting others.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Planned

OMF: the possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by using OMF

After creating Elements and Tags in AF by using OMF standard, I don´t want to manually configure security settings in AF. The possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by only using OMF standard would be very helpfull.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

Allow users to include or omit element references from searches

As of PI DataLink 2015, element reference paths are returned in addition to the primary element path if they both exist under the search root. Enhance the Search and Asset Filter Search to include or omit element reference paths. Note: This was p...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

OMF should accept the use of special characters like / : @ ! + % < > ( ) when writing to PI WebAPI OMF endpoint

The OMF 1.1 spec does not allow certain special characters that are indeed accepted in the PI Core system like these here: / : @ ! + % < > ( ) When OMF is used to write to PI Core via the PI WebAPI OMF endpoint, this hinders the migration p...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Improve throughput

I am not sure if this is a limitation connected to the OMF, WebAPI, or https itself, but in the manual it is given that the maximum message size is 192KB. I am aware that compression is recommended and applied by default by the adapters. For the r...
sahilp over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Option to disable automatic connections to AF Servers

I would like the ability to disable automatic connections to specific AF Servers. Currently client applications (DataLink) are implicitly connecting to all AF Servers in the AF "KST". This results in very slow startup times for Excel. For customer...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

OMF: Property Bags

Allow reuse of a set of properties for multiple type definitions in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status