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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.

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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PI Connector for MQTT - support more generic JSON formats

While the existing support for Sparkplug MQTT format is helpful, this connector would be more useful if it also supported a more generic JSON format.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 3 Declined

Put a REST endpoint on all connectors

It would be very useful to see the data flowing through a connector at the edge, or even the data buffered in a connector. Every connector could have a rest endpoint with the same methods as PI Web API. Possible uses: -Diagnose connection/configu...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 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

Exclude Bad values from data collection in PI Connectors

PI connectors such as OPC UA, Wonderware and Cygnet send BAD values from the data source. We would like the option to filter these values out at the connector level such that they do not make the PI Data Archive.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 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

Add Configuration Export/Import function for Data Collection Manager

It would be helpful to export and import the configuration of the data collection manager to make tasks like moving Data Collection Manager to a new host easier. Our current information from PI Support Team is, that we have do configure from scrat...
Fabian Ufer about 1 year ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Allow data sources and servers to be renamed

Currently, if you want to rename a data source, PI Data server, or PI Asset server, you must delete the one with the old name and create a new one with the new name, and redo all of the configuration. This is especially a pain for data sources, si...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Failover for PI Connector Relay

Although, the PI Connector Relay going down / not being available does not cause data loss since the connector data is buffered, if the source connector supports Failover, the relay becomes the only single point of failure in the data flow. Havi...
Gabriel Verreault over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 Declined

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