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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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More flexible search results for PI Builder

Allow users more selection of which columns to include in search results (before tag selection). Some customers may wish to reference tag metadata that cannot currently be displayed, including InstrumentTag and UserInt1. Note that this is not ref...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Have Platform Common services for PI use least privilege access on the Azure directory

Some Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) administrators will be hesitant to give the registered application for the AIM Server Directory.Read.All privileges. It should be feasible to give the application lesser privileges on the directory while stil...
Housnat Aboubacar over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Allowing users to edit IP Address for creating a trust with Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager

When creating a trust for the Buffer Subsystem with the Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager, the Wizard auto-populates the IP Address of the machine. Include an option to edit the IP Address that is auto-populated for machines that have mu...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Remove and disable permissions that do not apply in PI System Explorer's Security Configuration window

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the "Permissions for" box always lists all permissions that can possibly be set within PI AF, regardless of the selected objects. Instead, only permissions that apply to the selected objects...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 3 No status

Provide an audit function

The idea would be to provide a feature which alllows a PI System Admin to get a report of all the rights that are granted to a user or a group of user for all the PI system product which have a link with security
jerome.boudon over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Securing the PI System

As an ICS systems engineer, I need to understand and easily configure Authentication and Authorization settings to secure the PI System from the point of data collection to data access and remote display viewing.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Allow security to be set at AFAttribute level

I want to give access to only some attributes on some elements to some users. Currently, the smallest granularity in AF Security is at the element, not attribute level. Sure there are some workarounds like creating derived templates, but it would ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Add the ability to upload raw data to the PI Data Archive

If PI Builder could upload raw data to PI, manual data entry would be greatly simplified. There are a few ways to enter data manually in PI, but each method has severe drawbacks: • Archive Editor in PI SMT Problems: hard to add data to multiple ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Declined

Eliminate the 2-cell-wide blank border around PI Builder data

When I import data using PI Builder, I usually want to filter the data and create calculated columns, but these prove to be more painful than necessary. If I put filters on the columns containing PI Builder data and then click on the filter dropd...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 6 No status

Minimize the recalculation of volatile cells

Currently, PI Builder data is imported row by row. Each imported row causes all volatile cells in all open workbooks and any cells downstream of them in the dependency tree to recalculate. PI Builder will not import a new row until this calculatio...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined