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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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Add relevant windows service dependency via installer.

Following KB01345 & 000036461 we have to manually add dependency where applicable. Please consider adding similar service dependency than we have via PI ICU for new interface (depend on pibufss): - AFService depend on relevant MSSQL$ service ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 No status

Use the HTTPS versions of links in "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information" in Control Panel → Programs and Features

In Control Panel → Programs and Features, when you click on the PI programs in general (i.e. not just those that are part of PI Server), you will see that most of them use an HTTP link for their "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 Planned

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

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

Re-instate the default tags and random/ramp soak interfaces

These were removed from the 2018 SP3 install kit as OSI found many customers removed these tags and interfaces after installation. However, our experience is the opposite and these tags are massively useful for diagnostic, experimental and trainin...
Alistair over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

Include the "Primary Parent" checkbox functionality under PSE's "Change Reference Type" dialog in PI Builder

In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Change behavior to retrieve contacts in bulk

In a large scale deployment, or in an undersized system retrieving AF Contacts, or accessing the subscription tab on a Notification Rule can be slow. A solution is of course to properly size the system or reduce the scale, however there is a compo...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Make the AF SQL scripts available for download in the Customer Portal

The current AF Server versions require running the AVEVA PI Server Integrated Install Kit in a machine to extract the Go.bat SQL scripts. This can be a concern in highly restricted or validated environments, where customer might not be able to run...
Rafael Batista 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Link to user manual/ help file unavailable from UI

The connector UI does not contain any link to the help documentation or the user manual. The files are also not found in the standard PIPC path and are available only with the installation extarction
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Allow individual MSIs to be extracted from the PI Server 2018 install kit

(from case 939560) I kindly request you add an enhancement request to allow individual MSIs to be extracted from the install kit. On numerous occasions, I’ve had upgrade/install failures that could be easily overcome by re-running the affected MS...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 Declined