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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Possibility to join internal PI AF tables for Table Lookup Data Reference

Users must use an SQL JOIN clause while configuring linked table to join Link Tables belonging to the same data source . For table Lookups, joining internally existing Link Tables in AF within the AF Server is not possible as Table Lookup Data Ref...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow internal AF Tables to be linked from one AF Database to another

In some scenarios, creating a linked table to an internal AF table is more appropriate than linking to an external table. For example, an internal AF table which contains a list of assets and their associated tag name may be applicable to multiple...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve "Force Creating SQL Database before PI AF Install"

When doing a fresh installation of AF Server, and either the "Validate SQL Connection" option or other Software like PI Notifications, RTQP Engine are selected, the installation cannot be started when the AF SQL Database is not called "PIFD". As t...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add warning message while changing analysis type

Changing from Expression to Rollup by mistake will erase the Expression configuration in PI System Explorer. Add a warning message regarding this.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add the ability to display UOMs in different languages in the PI AF Client

Automatically display UOMs in the PI AF client in the language of your choice i.e. not a conversion of units. For example, to change the display of UOMs to Russian instead of English, kg becomes кг, V becomes B.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Use different Windows account for linked table authentication

As a user, I want to have the option of entering a service account's Windows credentials when authenticating to a Table Connection in PI System Explorer. Currently, the Windows authentication mode only allows impersonation of the user running PI S...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Create substitution parameter for parent of referenced element

I would like to be able to reference the parent of a element reference. As it currently stands, it is only possible to reference the original parent element of an element.
Roger Ward over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Password Protection For AF Databases

For AF databases we want to go beyond the AF security configuration and add password protection layer for databases.
Mohammed Qasim Asghar 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to disable recalculation at the Database level in AF

Currently backfilling and recalculation are only enabled and disabled at the global and element level. There are instances where users of Asset Analytics, particularly when it comes to event frames, experience automatic recalculation upon a servic...
zachary cmelak 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve Search Performance when using both Attribute Name and Description

When the AFAttributeSearch(AFDatabase, String, String) AF SDK method is used, the AF Server will produce queries that may result into suboptimal SQL Server execution plans when using the default pageSize parameter for searching including attribute...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status