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.


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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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 util...
Guest over 1 year 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 tags that...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 8 No Status

Provide drop down list of enumeration values in PI Builder

When an attribute column is added in PI Builder where you have an attribute using an Enumeration Set for it's Value Type, it would be nice to have a drop down list appear in the cells. This would allow you to choose a value out of the available op...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Change "PI AF Builder" to "PI Builder" in the tooltip of the Feedback button

Once upon a time, the add-in was called "PI AF Builder", but not anymore. Please edit the tooltip to reflect the current name of the add-in.
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status

Have greater consistency between PI Builder and PI DataLink

PI Builder and PI DataLink both have Settings, About, Help, and Feedback buttons. Please consider some of the following actions to create a more consistent user experience across both add-ins: Use the same set of icons. Use a similar layout for th...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

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

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

When building AF output tags with PI Builder - can't create as Base instead of Classic

No option in PI Builder to declare point type of Base vs Classic.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No Status

AutoFit the columns in PI Builder's "About"

In the PI Builder tab in Excel, if you click on "About", a window similar to the one in "Before AutoFit.png" will appear. There is not enough room for the full Name to show, and the Assembly Version has much more space than it needs. If we AutoFit...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status

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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No Status