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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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    Have a more graceful automatic logout

    If you are logged into PI Square and leave a PI Square tab sitting for long enough (several days), you will be automatically logged out. This is fine, except that the logout page is an error page (see the attached image). Please instead load a pag...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 0 No status

    Add Code Block Option for Blogs

    Code blocks have been added to questions & posts but not to blogs, and the need is the same. Adding this request specifically for blogs since the other request was marked Completed and will no longer accept votes. Previous item: https://feedba...
    Brent Bregenzer about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 0 No status

    Add "Draft" as an option to the "Audience" dropdown menu of blog posts

    The old PI Square allowed users to save draft versions of blog posts, which were not visible to anyone other than the author. This allowed users to save changes to their blog post without publishing it. In the current PI Square, you must take gre...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 0 No status

    On the home page, make the search suggestions dynamic and/or partially based on past searches

    On the home page of PI Square, regardless of which device I use, or whether or not I am logged in, or whether or not I am connected to a VPN, I always get the same suggestions. See the attached picture. Please fix the search bar on PI Square's ho...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 1 No status

    Delete blog posts with equivalent KB articles or that are old, unengaging beta/release announcements

    There are >1300 blog posts on PI Square, and most of these are from the early 2010s when vCampus/PI Square was much more active. About 2% of all blog posts is old beta and release announcements with little engagement and information that is now...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 0 No status

    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 about 4 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 about 4 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 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 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 about 4 years 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 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status