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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PI Connector for OPC UA

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Remove AF Requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA

Remove the AF requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA. Users who may only be looking to send data from PI Connector for OPC UA to Data Archive are currently forced to configure connections/security for AF as well during initial setup.
Roger Ward over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

Connector syncing to existing points in the DA/AF servers.

Can there be another Excel export/import step when establishing the "Destination" where the "Source" points be matched w/ what points already exist in the DA/AF server?
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

Do not synchronize description from OPC UA server into PI Tag

There are situations when customer prefers to use “description” in PI Tag attribute that is independent from item “description” provided by OPC UA Server.   Currently, during each synchronization, the OPC UA Connector synchronizes descriptor from...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 7 In development

An import-export feature for PI Connector for OPC UA similar to the one used to configure OPC DA points

Having to select the OPC UA server points to import from a list with thousands of points where a naming rule is not followed is a never-ending task using the OPC UA Connector web interface. My suggestion is to create an interface similar to the on...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

Prevent OPC UA Connector 2.x from doing Data Discovery in Tags-Only mode

Use case: If we are frequently adding OPC UA tags and OPC UA server has a large variable count, then each discovery will increase the amount of time for it to complete. This increases the amount of time needed to discover the data source + configu...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 Tell us more

Enable health tag creation even when "Create Data Source Asset in AF" is unselected

Unselecting the Transformation Rule parameter "Create Data Source Asset in AF" for OPC UA 2.x causes the default health tags to not be created. Users who want this parameter unselected for control of the top-most asset in AF may still want the h...
Nico Cha over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

OPC UA 2.x - Health information and connector statistics

In the PI Connector for OPC UA 1.3.x, some very useful statistics are available - Events in DA queue, Data rate, Variables Numbe - but 2.0.x these items are not available anymore. Those items should be available for data selection to be monitored ...
Gabriel Verreault over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

"Discover Available Endpoints” option is not available for backup server on DCM page

"Discover Available Endpoints” option is not available for backup server on DCM page like it is available for primary server which lists down all the available endpoints depending on the security configuration settings in source OPC UA server side...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status

Add a checkbox disabling Tag and Element creation

Case1: OPC UA Connector configured in a way that if the automation system will offer new tags, they will be created on PI system automatically. However, this makes running out of tags on the PI Server. Is there a possibility to start the OPC UA Co...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No Status

Connector should create point in PI server irrespective of the source tag value field, whether blank or null

Connector should create point in PI server irrespective of it's value status in OPC UA server side, whether the source tag value field is blank or null, in either case, PI tag should be created for PI Connector for OPC UA 2.0.
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No Status