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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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PI Connector for UFL

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UFL Connector - Add elements and attributes to existing AF hierarchies

Simply, it would be nice if the UFL Connector could add to existing elements and attributes already in place instead of creating a new hierarchy. Also, would like the ability to create sub-elements from the UFL connector that span multiple eleme...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 Declined

PI UFL Connector Event Frame Generator enhancement and bugfixes

Currently it is not possible to create an event frame from the PI UFL Connector linked to an existing element, despite the documentation does not specifically mention this restriction, you can only link the new event frame to an element created wi...
Andy about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 2 No status

Enable or Disable single DataSource

When a datasource is actually offline and we don't want the UFL connector to keep trying uploading or connecting to it and pollute the message log . The best option would be having the stop/start enable/disable and restart options for each dataso...
Andy about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 3 Declined

Make the UFL Connector logic development/testing/debugging process less tedious

Deploying a UFL Connector solution requires a LOT of edits of the INI file as part of the development/testing/debugging process. After each INI file change and file save, the required procedure is as follows: 1. Click on the Data Source List link...
Mic Paluszak about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 Declined

Add ‘No Replace’ mode to UFL Connector

Currently the only PI Data Archive ‘Store Mode’ options are ‘Insert’ and ‘Update’. I’m currently working on a project where a large quantity of data needs to be downloaded daily from the internet using the REST client node. To reduce chances of da...
Mic Paluszak about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

UFL Connector HTTP compression

Large data sets need to be pulled from a REST server on the internet which supports HTTP compression. Since this feature is not supported by the UFL Connector, the data will need to be retrieved in an uncompressed format. For the current project, ...
Mic Paluszak about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

Uninstall only the installed files & folders

It is standard for uninstallations to follow a procedure similar to this: Remove all files that were added during the installation. Then remove all folders that were added during the installation if they are currently empty. The PI Connector for ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 No status

Show the scan time broken up into days, hours, minutes, and seconds

Currently, the scan time is shown and entered in seconds. While this is simple from a programmatic point of view, it requires the user to convert their desired scan time into seconds or convert the existing scan time into terms that they understan...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

Enhance the Timestamp data type to support all the formats allowed on .NET

Use case: ISO 8601 timestamps (2019-07-08T18:48:02+00:00), would be much easier to parse with full .NET datatime format support. It would also allow the connector to be consistent with the dynamic timestamp formatting that follows https://docs.mi...
Gabriel Verreault about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 No status

UFL Connector NoReplace fuction ( Store Mode)

What we would like is a third option with UPDATE and INSERT, which prevents a new value for the same timestamp from being processed. Such as a NO REPLACE mode.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 2 No status