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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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Extend PI audit trail to include changes made to snapshot using SMT

Using the SMT tool with the PI archive editor you can enter current values using * as time. This enters directly into the snapshot but is not recorded in the audit trail. All changes made should be recorded
Carl Van Laer over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Ability to Manage Global Notification Formats from PI Builder

Currently, there is no button in PI Builder which allows users to bring in Global Notifications Formats. The button would allow users to read in current Formats and then users would be able to Publish edited formats or newly created formats. This ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Generate error when header is misspelled

When editing PI Points, PI Builder does not return any error if one of the headers is wrong or misspelled. Simply, nothing is edited for that header and you  only find out at a later time when looking at the PI point. It would be useful if PI...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Use Excel tables to contain PI Builder data

PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework. Benefits of PI Builder using tables: • filters ar...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Add filtering and rolling log system to AFGetTrace

When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Allow PI Builder to be used with Windows Store Application version of Excel

If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry. PI...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Buffering Manager should have tuning parameter for Points with Post Errors

Right now there is a PerfMon counter for Buffer Health.  It's either 0, 1, or 2.  That's not helpful because it doesn't tell you what is wrong.  There are other PerfMon counters for Remaining Queue capacity and Points with Post Erro...
taterhead247 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 Tell us more

Retain cell formatting after PI Builder "Retrieve" actions

When I use datalink, it will not overwrite my cell formatting like background color. When I use PI Builder to retrieve data, it overwrites all cell formatting. Can you please edit your PI Builder code to behave more like Datalink in regard to pres...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 4 No status

AF Transformer logging improvements

Improve AF Transformer logging: In some cases it's hard to investigate why AF Transformer doesn't include certain elements in transformation. it would be helpful to have a debug level that enables following features: - log element names that were ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 Declined

Allow passing parameters to XML script file so that I can maintain one general script for many sites

Below in the examples are the parameters that would change from site to site.  Other than these parameters the transformation XML script is identical across sites.  With parameters, it would be simpler to maintain these files. • Host, D...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined