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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Enable PI UFL Connector to read csv with empty data fields, eg. no value between commas

Enable UFL Connector to interpret two consecutive commas in a csv file to mean that the data field is empty. The UFL connector should interpret this empty field as a zero.
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 No Status

The UFL Connector should have a run once mode

Many rest APIs allow access to historical APIs. This is data that should be collected only once when, for example, a new piece of equipment is being added for data collection. This one time data collection is currently tricky in the UFL connector ...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status

Payload configuration

I want to be able to define a POST or PUT payload in the connector. Also the option to import the payload through a file. Add a testing capability so you can see the respons from the POST or PUT command.
Hobbe over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 No Status

Allow connectors to write to a buffered PI Point

The customer stores shelving and alarming event data in the same PI point, as they are two parts of a full picture. They receive alarm data through the interface for OPCAE, however shelving events are not exposed through this data path, and they h...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

Support response and additional handling of POST requests

Have the PI Connector for UFL running in REST Server mode respond to the first PUT/POST request with additional information, which then allows the RESTful endpoint to generate a second PUT/POST request with the data we want to parse and store in P...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status

Can we have a version of the UFL Connector that is compatible with the Data Collection Manager and the Relay?

Can we have a version of the UFL Connector that is compatible with the Data Collection Manager and the Relay? Use case would be to allow the DCM to be the one-stop shop for all connectors and would make things easier to configure and manage the ...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status

Remove or disable the PI Connector UFL function which puts "Excluded" into attributes

If the user has two different UFL flows working on same elements and attributes, one flow puts "Excluded" into the attributes created within the second one and vice versa. Giving the possibility to the user to disable this function would be a sma...
rodolforotti over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

Allow the PI Connector for UFL to call a REST endpoint using the POST method

I have come across customer requirements asking for the possibility of calling a REST endpoint using POST, from a PI UFL connector running as a "REST Client". So far, the workaround has been to develop an intermediary custom script which would ...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status

Configure target PI/AF/DB at datasource level

Actually the UFL Connector sends data to all of the listed PI Data Archives and AF Servers in the server list configured in administration page, so it's not possible to send different data to different PI DA or AF databases with a single UFL Conne...
Carlo Pedroli over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status

Allow dynamic parameters in URL

Often third party web API needs input parameters so static URL is not enough. Sometimes parameters are simple, e.g. current data, or can be derived from PI tags; these could be set with placeholder in configuration.
Carlo Pedroli over 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No Status