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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Analytics & Calculations

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Add a string array function to extract all items into a string result

Our process is writing an array of strings into an AF attribute of the same type. This AF attribute may receive information of different size (index) in time. We need to extract all the information contained in the string array (all the items) an...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Additional capabilities for rollup analyses

I find myself making analytics on child elements which by themselves have limited value, but are needed to get rollup analyses to work. This adds complexity to the design of AF. Two ideas would improve this: 1) Count # of attributes that meet a c...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Add support to create custom AFAnalysisRule plugins

I would like to create a custom AFAnalysisRule that allows us to leverage the resources on the PI Analysis Service to perform calculations that the Analysis Service currently cannot perform. These calculations include matrix operations, array oper...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

New analysis to perform insert into AFTable

Hello, We have a use case that would benefit from being able to insert into an AFTable from an analysis. This would work in the same way that event frames do, where a trigger condition is meet that causes the row to be inserted. The variables from...
Trevor Flynn almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Refrain from creating PI Points when AF Analytics is doing an expensive calcultion

If it can be known that the Analytics service is busy with an expensive calculation, the Data Archive should pause on creating PI Points, as this is also an expensive operation and may interfere with the calculation completion.
Laurie Dieffenbach 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Performance Tab "Jump to" Option

When trying to troubleshoot analyses and templates that may be causing poor performance on the "Management\Performance" tab, it can be tedious to locate the selected element to start determining why it's building in error count or taking a long ti...
Guest 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Add a performance counter which can measure if Event frame reconciliation is performed correctly

Currently we only can tell an event frame reconciliation is performed by the green check after auto calculation, and it is not very easy to monitor. Since event frame usually use for alarms to operators. Accuracy is very important. We try to avoid...
Guest almost 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Simpler performance analysis service statistics review directly in AF Explorer

Consider implementation performance analysis service statistics in AF Explorer which is now performed in a complicated way by exporting data to Excel, rearranging and viewing in a pivot table. It would also be useful to be able to retrieve that da...
igreguri about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Count

As a user of Asset Analytics, I would like to have a rollup calculation that would return the count of ELEMENTS belonging to a certain category. The current count function only returns  the ATTRIBUTE count.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined

Allow EventFrame analysis to link EventFrame to Primary Parent Element

I want to be able to link an EventFrame to the Primary Parent of the Element the EF analysis is defined on. E.g. i use a child element to a Unit to contain the logic to detect and generate downtime events. However, i want the downtime event to li...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status