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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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Custom Time Range for OPC UA History Read (Recovery)

It would be very useful for to be able to specify a custom time range to do a history read for on the PI Connector for OPC UA . The connector automatically does this recovery for time intervals that it internally identifies as gaps. However, many ...
Drew Hoffman almost 3 years ago in PI Connectors / New PI Connector Request 0 No status

PI System Explorer shows times in US-American format, despite Windows being German

My Windows UI is set to English for all text-matters. However all region formats (dates, comma-versus-period-decimal-symbol and so on is set to German) Most programs respect these settings. However PI System Explorer displays all date/time formats...
Guest about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Transfer metrics are high level only 

When observing the agent transfer metrics, we realized that it is processing streaming/historical data. In order to troubleshoot this more closely, we want to see exactly how those data were generated to the exact tags because the data was in hist...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add ability to handle exception point type changes 

Tags from data sources can change point type for whatever reason. When tags are initially added to the transfer, a point type for that tag is created. If for any reason, the point type changes, it will cause an error in connect and the transfer wi...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add ability to select individual PI tags from UI 

We were able to get around this (with help of Glenn and Fabio) by utilizing hidden API endpoint which allow us to add Pi Tags by PointID. Customer had 3000 tags (no AF configured) in an excel sheet, attempting to search for these returned 15,...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add documentation on architectural best practice

When setting up PI to Connect Agent transfers, we need to emphasize in the documentation that we recommend installation of the PI Agent on the same network, and in the same physical location, but not on the same server as the PI server it will be ...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

trend log objects (BACnet object type 20) available from the connector

BACnet trendlog object present the opportunity to buffer at the edge where the data is collected and to gracefully recover from comms outages if data collection has been impacted. I would suspect the trendlog object could be handled similarly to ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Wonderware Historian Connector should store some metadata in PI tag attributes

The Description, Maximum EU, Minimum EU, Engineering Units, etc. that are stored in the Wonderware historian should be stored in the PI tags' attributes as well as the Wonderware AF structure.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 1 No status

Add instrumentation to the PI System Connector

Need to add instrumentation to PI System Connector wheras exposing perfmon counters (so PI perfmon can store accordingly in PI tags) on AVG data flow in events/sec for a 120 seconds time period, status of the connector, etc
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined