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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.

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.


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Outputs at close available for all generation modes

‘Outputs at close’ is very powerful and flexible. It allows one to use expression analysis syntax in event frames. Unfortunately, it is only available for generation mode 'explicit trigger', but not for 'pulse', 'step', or 'step continuous'. If y...
MarkusKoschorreck almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 2 No status

Automatically detect new AF Elements and replicate them to CONNECT

As an AF Administrator, when I add new equipment to our plant and create new elements/attributes in AF to represent that equipment, I want that to be automatically replicated to CONNECT so I don't have to manually update a PI to CONNECT transfer t...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI to CONNECT 2 Future consideration

PI Interface DNP3 - unsolicited data listen only mode of operation requested

Is there an option in DNP3 driver (In fact at TCP level) to make it listen on a certain (usually 20000 for DNP3)? In era of IoT devices, most devices are sleeping devices, they wake up usually once a day and push data to DNP3 Master (PI), however ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for DNP3 2 Tell us more

Add AVEVA Adapters to the Enterprise Agreement

Before, one of the main attractions of the Enterprise Agreement (EA) was that you get unlimited access to all standard PI Interfaces and PI Connectors. However, now that AVEVA Adapters are the successors to PI Interfaces and PI Connectors, and sin...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 Declined

Detect and monitor which OPC UA server the PI Adapter is connected to

When configuring a PI Adapter to leverage server-level redundancy, it is not currently possible to monitor which server instance the PI Adapter is connected to. Surfacing this information would allow server administrators to better monitor the hea...
Giulio Cattarin over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

An option to store symmetric keys in a file - OPC UA

It would be helpful to be able to read network trace between OPC UA Server and Adapter even if communication is encrypted. This possibility is described here https://www.unified-automation.com/news/news-details/analyzing-encrypted-opc-ua-traffic-w...
Mateusz Dura 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Make the Agent recrawl the AF/PI Point database from scratch

Make the agent recrawl the AF/PIPoint database from scratch every now and again and update its cache if required. I think this is what PI Vision does, so it doesn't have these limitations.
Guest 12 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add the option to delete all event frames that reference an element when the element is deleted

When deleting an element using PI System Explorer, there should be an option to delete all event frames that reference the element. Currently when deleting an element, the delete option "Delete this object and all references to it" does not delete...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Event Frame Re-capture/Backfill Option to Save Annotations/Reasons

When a backfill or "recapture events" option is selected for Event Frames, give the user an option to "Save Annotations" for that specific event frame. Right now, we use Event Frames to copy in Reason Codes and Comments (that are logged as annotat...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status

Support OPC UA ReverseConnect

Support ReverseConnect, allowing for the connection to be establish from the more secure area where the OPC Server reside to the least secure area where the OPC Client / Adapter resides. This is implemented in many other client tools and SDK such...
Gabriel Verreault almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status