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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 Builder

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Include PI Server as a column option in PI Builder

A PI Server column would be a useful check to confirm which PI Server results are being published to, especially when a PI Admin has a drop down list of many PI Servers/Collectives.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Throw an error if both excdev and excdevpercent or both compdev and compdevpercent are present when publishing

Currently, if you publish a PI Point configuration that contains both excdev and excdevpercent or both compdev and compdevpercent, the "percent" versions silently take priority. This means that if a user imports excdev and excdevpercent, edits onl...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 7 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 6 No status

Use PI SQL Client OLEDB for PI Builder data imports

PI Builder has a few problems: It is specific to Excel. It does not store data in tables. Imported data is static and can become outdated easily, which can lead to frequent imports, the need to publish PI Builder edits soon after import, and the r...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Give a more specific error message when publishing a span of 0

Currently, if you try to create/edit a PI Point to have a span of 0, an error message similar to the one below appears: Error occurred on line #, column #, while processing PI Data Archive 'PIDataArchive': [-38] Illegal Compression Deviation Speci...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

Rename "PIAFBuilder" to "PI Builder" in Excel's add-in lists

The name "PIAFBuilder" still appears in at least 2 places in Excel (see the attached screenshots): File → Options → Add-ins Developer tab → COM Add-ins Please change the name to "PI Builder". "PI AF Builder" was the name of PI Builder before PI A...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Editing or adding of Annotation/Comment to Event Frame

Currently, PI Builder does not support editing or adding of annotation/comment to Event Frame. The suggestion will easily allow users to backfill or edit annotation/comment in bulk.
Willy Seah Wei Liat over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status