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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    PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files

    PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files.  Files that get renamed to .999 is no longer available with PI EMDVB.  This file renaming feature was very useful from a system maintenance perspective.  We would easily remove .999 from the...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

    PI EFGen 4.1+ has limited recovery capabilities

    Up to PI EFGen 4.0, we were able to backfill OOO Event Frames by simply inputting the start and end time of the corresponding period. Since 4.1, this must be done in a per-event basis, since larger time ranges are modified so that RST matches the ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 No status

    DeltaV Smart Connector configurability

    Smart Connector foo DeltaV should let user configure some default attributes for tags created: - User should be able to define what the default point security should be - User should be able to decide if tags should be created as Poll or Advise
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    Add a Trace Route feature to PI Ping interface

    Add ping -i feature to the interface and allow for either the output of the ping time or destination in the PI tag. Case: This will allow for IT to monitor the network path taken in communication from one site to another. If the route has change...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    Allow PI AF Analyses to reference PI Vision dashboard start time

    PI AF attributes can summarize other PI Point attributes across a time range using value retrieval methods and setting the "TimeMethod" parameter to "TimeRange". When a PI Vision dashboard references these summary attributes, it overrides the time...
    Greg Malek 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Subsecond Cropping for Improved Timestamp Handling

    The OPCDA interface currently can only handle subsceonds by ignoring them as mentioned in "Ignore Subsecond Timestamps" under PI Interface for OPC DA - Data Handling settings. However there are use cases where users would like to simply limit the ...
    Mohammed Shahin almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Batch interfaces keeping merged child operation EventFrames open until the parent Operation EventFrame has been closed.

    Currently for batch interfaces using the /MUP parameter, child operation event frames might be reopened and closed multiple times until the last operation event frame closes and the child event frame is closed for good. For example with UnitProced...
    Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Allow Default Attribute to use inherited attributes

    Derived templates (element and event frame) will not allow for inherited attributes to be used as the "Default Attribute". This breaks inherited analyses that use the "Default Attribute". The only workaround is to override the the attribute, which...
    Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Allow automatic interface restart based on Device Status

    In some cases, such as when using a tunneller, the PI interface for OPC DA requires a restart to resume collecting data. A feature that allows an automatic restart of the service based on the value of the Device status Health tag would avoid human...
    Alberto Tedesco over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined