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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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Put a PI Collective note directly on the Server List page

The PI Connector user guides mention "For a PI Data Archive collective, add each member of the collective to the PI Data servers list, not the collective itself." It would be useful to have this note directly on the Server List page.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

"Connected" to invalid PI Data servers

If I add an invalid PI Data server in the Server List page, the PI Connector will say that it is connected to this data source. The status only becomes "Error" when the PI Connector tries to save data to this server. Please change this so that inv...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

Allow data sources and servers to be renamed

Currently, if you want to rename a data source, PI Data server, or PI Asset server, you must delete the one with the old name and create a new one with the new name, and redo all of the configuration. This is especially a pain for data sources, si...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Use units in the attribute templates of the element templates that PI Connectors create

Currently, all of the attribute templates of the element templates that PI Connectors create have their unit stated in their description but do not have a Default UOM assigned to them. Please assign Default UOMs to the attribute templates to save ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

PI Connector for IEC 60870-5-104 bi-directional between SCADA and PI

RWE Power AG “But one really important feature we need, is the ability to write back from PI into the SCADA system Until now, we couldn’t find anything about this (important) functionality. So our question is if we can use this connector bi-dire...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 Declined

Warning when stopping a connector about potential consequences

Some connectors perform some kind of rediscovery of the data source upon start - Such as meta data or current values, etc. When stopping a connector from the UI, a warning should pop-up indicating potential consequences of doing so and what to exp...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

Output tags on connectors

Sometimes we need to send data back to our sources. Connectors should support output tags
Alan Izar over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 8 Declined

Simple, readable, user-friendly names for all downloadable files

OSIsoft's downloadable files are inconsistently named; use hyphens (-), underscores (_), and concatenations instead of spaces; and sometimes contain unnecessary abbreviations. For users who keep their OSIsoft files in the same folder, this means e...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

Allow the AF root element name to be configurable

The root element in AF is determined by the Connector code.  Allow the name of the root element to be specified by the user.
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 No status

Put a REST endpoint on all connectors

It would be very useful to see the data flowing through a connector at the edge, or even the data buffered in a connector. Every connector could have a rest endpoint with the same methods as PI Web API. Possible uses: -Diagnose connection/configu...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status