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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.

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Asset Framework (AF)

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Templated attributes would be useful

Sometimes, a complete element template isn't what we need, but a pattern of use for an AF Attribute is needed for close-grain application of properties, for instance, an attribute that does specific work with an an AF Table lookup and an associate...
jdjohnstn over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow 'Jump To Element' functionality in PSE

When viewing Element Search results, it would be useful to have a Right-Click option to 'Jump To' the element in the hierarchy. The same is true for Attribute Search results.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

AF security for child elements

We want to allow certain users (=identity) to modify parts of our AF structure. For example we have a structure Elements\Wärmetauscher\Anlage1 with several heat exchangers (=Wärmetauscher) as child elements. Now one special user should be able t...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Click and Drag row in Analysis Configuration

Include the ability to click and drag rows in the analysis configuration, rather than using buttons to move the row up or down. This is very tedious for long calculations.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Identities Starting pack

It would be nice if out of the box you could get a few starting identities based on common security use cases. I.E. An Identity /  Only read, for end users An Identity for Consultants / Systems Integrators - That could administrate all but...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Throttling of Audit Trail cleanup

Currently the Audit Trail cleanup, when turned on, just deletes everything. When there is a large backlog for the cleanup, this causes a huge load on the SQLserver. I would like some throtthling feature to not load the server too high with the cl...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

PI Builder Publish without Check In

It would be useful during development to be able to publish a PI Builder spreadsheet with an option to not check in the changes so you could check what the changes look like and validate them in PI System Explorer and decide whether to undo the ch...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Optional Link between underlying PI tag and AF attribute to use for description, UOM, etc

An optional link to connect an AF attribute with the underlying PI tag. This would allow the user to pull in the PI tag description and engineering units in the AF attribute description and UOM. When the underlying PI tag is updated the changes ar...
narburgh over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Child attributes should not be "included" if parent is "included"

When a parent attribute template is excluded, but included at the element level, all child attributes are also included. It makes sense if a parent attribute is set to excluded all child attributes should also be set to excluded. However, if a par...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

AF XML Export/Import to Support Ordering by ID

AF XML Export supports exporting object IDs in the XML and Import supports preserving them. It would be useful if the export could be optionally sorted by ID as this would allow comparing different version of the XML (i.e. AF database) using Git. ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status