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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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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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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No Status

Add the "Enable Analyses when created from template" option to PI Builder

Would like to have the possibility to edit the option: Enable Analyses when created from template, for Analysis category in PI Builder.
Eduardo Miller about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status

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 tags that...
Guest over 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No Status

Enable the compatibility of PI Builder with Microsoft 365/O365

With the existing versions, the PI Builder plugin doesn't work with O365 in its full capability. It would be great to have the compatibility setup from PI Builder plugin with MS365.
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status

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 r...
Guest over 1 year 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 6 No Status

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 ...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status

Improve formatting for changedate and creationdate properties in PI Builder Excel Add-in

When querying PI Points within PI Builder we see the changedate and creationdate properties show up in the format "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" which is not the default format that Excel wants for filtering and sorting columns by date/time. However, we do...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status