AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

    Overload the Convert function to allow a input UoM and output UoM for unitless values

    For unitless values you can assign a unit of measure by using the Convert() function. To further convert this to another UoM in the same class you need to nest another Convert() function. For example, Convert(Convert(3600, "s"), "h")) It would sim...
    Mike Horrocks over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Implement similar functionality as the /ta flag from the OPC DA interface

    Using the OPC UA connector there is no equivalent to the /ta flag in the OPC DA interface, which ensures when a value significantly changes in a short time period that it does not interpolate. The current work around of setting the Step attribute ...
    caffreys_col over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

    Increase the maximum timeout for the BACnet Discovery Utility with the PI Connector for BACnet

    If a user has many BACnet devices/objects discoveries can take some time. Since the BACnet Discovery Utility has a maximum timeout of 240 seconds, this utility can cannot be used in these scenarios and manual creation of the csv is required which ...
    Nico C over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

    Warning on PI Point Prefix value when adding a target PI Server

    When creating a Destination PI Server on a Connector, it automatically gets assigned a default PI Point Prefix. Therefore if you delete and recreate a Destination PI Server, the Prefix will get reverted back to the default value. Please add a war...
    Guest almost 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 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 almost 3 years 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Analysis on roll up

    We should be able to perform analysis or at least data filter at roll up. e.g. roll up attriubutes A while Attribute B > 5
    Kareema Ramli about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    PI Connector for Cygnet - Add support for disconnected startup

    Add a disconnected startup option to improve startup times for connectors with high point count, or systems that have variable network conditions.
    Adam Bolin about 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for CygNet 0 No status

    Define time for analysis "evaluate" button to make debugging faster

    Currently, the evaluate button can run your evaluation at the current timestamp and the last scheduled time. It would be really helpful to key in a 3rd timestamp to diagnose edge cases. The current workaround involves putting dummy variables in to...
    RyanCarpenterAd about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    PI Connector for IEC 61850 is unable to retrieve more than 100 top-level objects in the hierarchy

    Currently, PI Connector for IEC 61850 will only retrieve the first 100 top-level ("vmdSpecific") items in the source object hierarchy during its initial request. If any reports exist in items beyond the first 100 top-level objects, then the Connec...
    Guest about 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status