AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Analytics & Calculations

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Allow the use of substitution variables in Analytics

Substitution variables are only supported in datareferences. I want to use these directly in Analytics expressions. Now i need to create a attribute to resolve the substitution variable (formula, stringbuilder, etc.), and use that in my analysis....
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Have PI Analysis Service Automatically Update the Definition of Existing Digital States

If an existing digital state is edited, PI Analysis Service does not recognize the change until it is restarted. A digital state should not be edited too often. However, it would be useful if there is a process to update cache, including each digi...
Toshiro Chiba over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Analysis service should not close opened EF when last evaluation time is exceeds MaximumAllowedAutoBackfillingSpanInHours

As PI server administrator I would like that when the Analysis service is restarted with autobackfilling enabled, if there are any EF analysis where last evaluation time is older than *-MaximumAllowedAutoBackfillingSpanInHours, EFs that are opened...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Filter/Flag PI System Generated Error Message as Analysis Inputs to prevent False Positive Evaluations

The PI data archive (and potentially other systems) can generate many automated error messages to assist with troubleshooting. One such key example is "[-10767] Client exceeded maximum concurrent queries in RPC thread pool", which occurs when a se...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Analysis tab can be slow to load

The analysis tab in PSE can take quite some time to load if there are thousands of elements being referenced in the input attributes. This is rare for Expression, Event Frame and SQC analyses, but not as rare for Rollups. Ideally the tab should lo...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Abililty to minimise Preview result window

When you develop an expression it is very useful to use the preview function. Quite often you can discover and debug directly from this, but you are not abel to close down the window and check the code! So either you memorise or you export the cs...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Provide a tool (in PSE?) to assist management of analytics scheduling offsets

We recommend customers use offsets to distribute scheduled calculations across time but there is not a good way manage this.Propose some utility to list a group of all scheduled analyses by same period, users supply X number of offsets and then th...
Brian Deslatte 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Include filtering logic in asset analytics

In Asset Analytics, there isn't a way to include a filtering function in a single analytic. For example, you may be calculating run hours on a motor, but there is no way to filter the calculation so that it is only done when the motor is running.
Laurie Dieffenbach 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Provide visual indication of attributes that are used as calculation inputs or outputs

it would be useful if there were a way to easily identify which attributes represent inputs to an analytic versus those which represent outputs.
Laurie Dieffenbach 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Make the second parameter of PrevVal optional

The PrevVal function currently requires two parameters: an attribute and a timestamp. However, I find that 90% of the time that I use this function I am looking for the previous value with respect to the current time ('*'). The error which analyti...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined