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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Option to paste column names to AF table definition

Option to Paste column names in table definition. In the moment everything has to be put manually. Also sorting is painful. If we could just copy an array/list from Excel and paste here it would make the handling a lot easier. (Copying the table d...
PhilippEven about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Show the reference arrow on child elements of a referenced element.

When you copy an element that has child elements the reference arrow only is visible on the parent. All children look like non referenced elements. This could be confusing in a large AF tree, referenced items that do not have the arrow could be mi...
BrentWebsterADM about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Change default setting for new analysis templates enabling from True to False

When an analysis template is added or new analysis are created with PI Builder the default option is to "enable analyses when created from template" = True. This should be changed to false with an opt-in for automatic enabling. Users easily forget...
PhilippEven about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add alternatives to reset Active Directory Properties in AF

Please add more ways to reset, or modify, the Active Directory Properties in AF, to be able to search for contacts, as currently the only ways are through PSE and by using AF SDK code. If those properties are misconfigured or the account used is m...
Daniel Füeß Soares 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status
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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 UOMs across AF databases within an organization

UOM conversions done on one AF Instance cannot be referenced by another AF Instance, even for the base/built-in UOMs. A customer uses an AF pattern where they have a golden (reference) AF structure that is referenced by other AF structures to help...
Laurie Dieffenbach 14 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

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