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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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Unit testing for Microsoft Edge browser for PI Connectors administration

The tested browser from AVEVA is Google Chrome. However, some organizations typically use an official browser or a proffered browser like Microsoft Edge. For such scenarios it will be a good idea if Aveva does the end to end unit testing for the o...
Aniruddha Kulkarni over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

PI System Connector - Support failover at the data source level

PI System Connector should be data source (collective aware) specific and always favor the data source in the better state. Furthermore, the PI System Connector should be able to determine whether data is stale on a given collective member, and au...
GaryYegiazaryan almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 No status

Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
Dorin IACOB over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

Support filtering by element template or attribute

Currently we can "filter" what is replicated by including a specific branch. But if using a composite model, say a site with all it's composite assets, and only want to replicate the "foo" assets from all sites, this option does not work. It is p...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Prioritize current data over historical backfill

Especially when requesting a large amount of historical data from PI System Connector, I would like the Connector to prioritize the current data from the data source while processing the historical data at a lower priority in the background.
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Add support for Future tags

Please add support for future data / tag type to PI System Connector. Since it is currently unsupported we have to continue to rely on PI to PI interfaces or other to handle these tags.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Datalink Search menu not intuitive

The Search menu in PI Datalink 2016 is confusing for users used to PI Tag searches elsewhere in the PI System. "In a row" and "In a column" are particularly confusing, as they suggest that searches are being performed within the row or column. Thi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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

Add Support for SharePoint Server 2016 to PI DataLink Server

Customer has a plan to upgrade their SharePoint Server to 2016 but currently it's hold off and pending on whether it will be supported by PI DataLink Server.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 0 Declined

For compressed data, have the option to return the tagname (for example, similar to how the count is returned at the top).

If multiple tags are selected for 1 compressed data function, it is difficult to determine which data is associated with the tags. On behalf of Elizabeth Metzler elizabeth.metzler@enbridge.com
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status