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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.

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AF-to-CONNECT should capture Categories

It would be helpful if the PI to CONNECT Agent could read the Category from an AF Attribute and write meta data to the Stream associated with the Category. This would be used to identify which of the AF Attributes are to be included in a DataView ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

AF Attribute not recongized in CONNECT transfer configuration if PI point data reference config string contains a datatype

We encountered an issue with PI to CONNECT (using current version of the Agent 2.2) not recognizing AF Attributes with PI Point Data References which have the pointtype in the data reference configuration. So that means if there is a config string...
Julian Weber over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Use PI Server Alternate Display Name in stream naming pattern

The PI Server Alternate Display Name is only used to build the stream IDs. It would be better to use it in the stream naming pattern as well.
Clement Dekeyser almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Seamless change of PI Server Alternate Display Name

When the PI Server Alternate Display Name is modified, new streams are created to receive live data while historical data remains only in the existing streams. It would be better to automate: the deletion of existing streams the backfilling of new...
Clement Dekeyser almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

More options when searching for PI Points

During a Lighthouse project a customer noted that they have a number of points in their data archive that are no longer on scan. It would be helpful, then, if the PI Point Search facilities in PI to CONNECT allowed use of the ‘scan on/off’ flag so...
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 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 over 3 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 over 3 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 over 3 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 over 3 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status