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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Asset Framework (AF)

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151 VOTE

Attribute UOM Substitution Parameter

If you have a PI Point attribute with auto tag creation and you want the attribute UOM and PI Point engunits to match, you have to define it twice; once in the attribute UOM field and a second in the attribute configuration string, e.g. engunits=m...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 20 No status
107 VOTE

Easily deploying and maintaining AF objects in multiple remote AF databases

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/5538-easily-deploying-and-maintaining-af-objects-in-multiple-remote-af-databases Today, one of the method that can be used to selectively reconcile object changes (including tem...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 14 No status

Allow substitution parameters in attribute template description

As a user, I want to be able to use substitution parameters in attribute template descriptions, so that when elements are created from template, the attribute template description can be substituted with pertinent information. Note: This was prev...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 7 No status

Highlight attributes not matching template

PI System Explorer should visually highlight attributes of template based elements that have changes to the template.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 13 No status

PI System Explorer (PSE PI AF) Web

Please consider creating a web application like PI Vision Admin, PI Web API Search, PI Manual Logger for Web, and the various integrators, but for PI System Explorer (PSE, PI AF). I would prefer this to the client-server design now. It would make ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 21 Declined

Support AWS RDS SQL Server instances as backend DBs for AF

Our company is progressively superseding the deployment of hosts with SQL Server installed, while moving towards the usage of SQL Server instances provided by AWS' Relational Database Service as the DB backend. Although currently OSISoft does not ...
alviserossi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 Evaluating

Expose backfilling/recalculation status in the AFSDK

Currently analysis runtime information can be accessed programmatically using the AFSDK (AFAnalysisService.RuntimeInformationFields - https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-AF-SDK/html/P_OSIsoft_AF_Analysis_AFAnalysisService_RuntimeInfor...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 No status

Composite element templates

As an user I want to be able to create a template hierarchy (parent-child) all at once, so that I can easily create a hierarchy representing related assets. For example, create a motor, gearbox, compressor train with a single template that actuall...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 No status

Support for localized element and attribute names

As an user, I want to be able to have a localized element and attribute name in addition to the base language, so that my users do not have to learn a different language.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Effective Access tab in PSE should show Owner Identity

This enhancement would be resolving a rare problem, as the Owner Identity is not granted rights to any Items in AF by default. It would be due to the security scheme configured in AF, which the responsible AF Administrator should be aware of. The ...
Guest about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status