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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Sort Dates in PI System Explorer correctly

Very small/minor request: PI System Explorer Grid Control needs to sort Date Attributes by Date and not by String. Example of current sorting: 1/1/2018 11/1/2017 2/1/2016 3/1/2015 Proposed sort: 3/1/2015 2/1/2016 11/1/2017 1/1/2018
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Display EndOfStream value instead of Current value for Future data for attributes in AF Explorer

Display EndOfStream value instead of Current value for Future data for attributes in AF Explorer
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Allow the boxes in PI System Explorer's Security Configuration window to be vertically resized

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the border under the "Items to Configure" box and above "Identities" and "Permissions for" should be adjustable. This would allow "Items to Configure" to grow and the other 2 boxes to shrink...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow multiple child attribute templates to be deleted at once in PI System Explorer

Currently, if you select multiple child attribute templates and right-click on them, the Delete option will not be available. However, nothing stops the user from deleting the child attribute templates individually.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Be able to change an element's template from the General tab in PI System Explorer

Changing an element's template would be easier if it could be done from the General after clicking on the element in PI System Explorer, similar to how the base template of element templates can be changed from the General tab. Template changes a...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Make PI System Explorer's "Choose Element Template" windows resizable and filterable by category

If you go to add a new element, a window that lists the element templates appears. This window is resizable but does not allow filtering by category. A similar window appears if you go to change an existing element's template. This window is not r...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

AF external table cache

We have some central tables which we want to be accessible for all AF users like the central telephone directory (to add information about maintenance contacts for example). This table is quite big in a company with several thousands of employees ...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Clarify the cancellability of changes that are made through the PI AF Server Properties window in PI System Explorer

In PI System Explorer → File → Server Properties, the OK and Cancel buttons only differ in function for the Description, Host, Account, Port, and Timeout text boxes in the General tab. Every other change that is made through this window is saved i...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call.

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call. In PI Server 2012 the time of the value was shown when using the RelativeTime call from PI System Explorer. In the PI ...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Expose whether or not an attribute template is overridden on the element in PI System Explorer

When I override an attribute template on an element (for example, changed descriptions), it would be useful to see some sort of flag on the attribute in PSE to let me know that it’s no longer linked to the template
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status