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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331 VOTE

Connector-level Failover - OPC UA 2.x

Support connector-level failover in PI Connector for OPC UA 2.x (relay-enabled version). Similar to UniInt failover (interfaces), failover should be data source specific and always favor the data source in the better state.
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 35 Declined
106 VOTE

PI OPC UA Connector Array support

Add reading capability for OPC UA Arrays. Currently items with “ValueRank“ = 1 are ignored.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 No status

Retrieve data even it's not changed on OPC server

Currently Connector configured to rertieve event on change and not based on a scan class like interfaces.The Connector suscribes to the changes, and when a change comes in to the server, the data will be sent to PI connector. We need option to ret...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 13 Declined

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 descri...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 9 In development

OPC UA: allow historical data access

allow historical data access with custom time ranges, like OPC HDA
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 Declined

Get data by polling

Support acquiring data by polling the OPC UA server rather than subscription.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 4 Declined

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden 19 days ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite 5 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Transformations and scaling

Add the ability to configure PI points so that the PI Connector for OPC UA performs transformations and scaling on the values before being archived.
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 Declined

OPC UA: allow a host name override

Allow a hostname override when connecting to the OPC UA endpoint.   We have some use cases where the URL returned by two independent OPC UA servers has the same name.  This prevents the Connector from connecting to the correct endpo...
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 6 Declined