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.

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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    Additional Import/Export option for servers that do not have an Excel plugin

    The excel plugin is very useful for making bulk edits and changes.  Unfortunately, all customers either do not have the excel software plugin or flat out do not allow the installation of excel on their machines thus eliminating the ability to...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 Tell us more

    Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator"

    Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator":  PI Builder cannot import attributes of a list of tags pasted into the spreadsheet from another source like "PI Tag Configurator" could.  With PI Builder, if you have want to work on...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 8 No status

    Analysis configuration on PI Builder

    It would be nice to split the configuration string of an Analysis Rule along several Excel cells, for (i) better readability and (ii) avoid hitting the limit of characters on a single Excel cell (currently, 32,767 characters). It would be special...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

    Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

    PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

    Rearrange the Archive tab in the Point Builder to reflect the relationship between settings

    If the Compressing attribute of a PI Point is set to Off, then the compression settings are greyed out, which makes sense because they are irrelevant if Compressing is Off. However, if a PI Point has its Archiving attribute set to Off, nothing is ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Tell us more

    Normalized view of the Database Security Table

    Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

    Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

    As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

    Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    PSD to report on SQL Server install

    I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined