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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Add Export option to only include objects directly referenced by the export object

Currently the Include All Referenced Objects option propagates down to each referenced object. This can lead to excessively large xml files for the export of a relatively simple object. For example, exporting an AFEventFrame that references an el...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ignore errors during server library import

As a PI AF administrator or power user, I would like to be allowed to continue loading content from a server library into a database, even if a UOM conflict is detected. Upon finding a UOM conflict, the library import feature does not allow me to...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Increase assembly description character limit for AF Plugins

Currently when inserting an AF plugin via RegPlugin64.exe , there is a 1000 character hard limit for the AssemblyDescription parameter that the AF plugin has in its AssemblyInfo.cs class. It has been found that some plugins have more than 1000 cha...
Guest 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Allow Moving Child Attributes

Provide a way to move child attributes to another parent attribute. Currently, it is required to create a new child attribute in the destination parent attribute then delete the original child attribute.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Improve management of templates which create PI tags

Currently managing attribute templates which can create tags is very laborious. It is an issue particularly when dealing with different security settings for tags. Improvements suggested would include - have the ability to create and maintain mu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Option to write Default Value to PI tags created through AF Templates

When creating PI points through AF Templates, there should be an option to "Write Default Value after Point Creation", or some other way to initialize the value of an automatically created PI tag. Right now, there is no way to replace the Pt Cre...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Convert should allow to override UOM

The introduction of the property "Delta UOM", made clear that when an incorrect UOM is set for an analysis result, there is no way (except casting to text and back to number) to change the UOM to a UOM of a different class. We need the convert fun...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Add an option to mark the PI Point Data Reference to not be updated when a Create or Update data Reference is issued

Currently when a PI Point Data Reference receives a call telling to Create or Update the Data Reference, it will resolve the String builder and then lock that Data Reference so that if someone changes the template, that change will not be replicat...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow programmatic access to AF audit trail for report generation

As a PI admin I would like to be able to generate reports based on the AF audit trail.  Currently the audit trail can be accessed manually using the audit trail utility tool and manually output a file, though I would like to be able to query ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

PI System Explorer Define Table tab should add new rows below the working row, rather than above

When defning a table in PSE the new row button adds the new row above the row I'm currently working on, it should go below the row I'm working on, since I logically want to add the next column in my table.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined