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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When converting an element to a template, suggest substitution parameters based on the ConfigString

Currently, if the ConfigString of an attribute looks like this: \\ServerName\TagName;UOM=uom then if you right-click on the element and go to Convert → Convert To Template, the Substituted column will suggest this: \\ServerName\%Element%.%Attribu...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Alphabetize Selections in drop downbox when creating filters in EF, etc.

In PI System Explorer, when creating a filter for looking at Event Frames, in the dropdown box, the selection items aren’t sorted in alphabetic order.  It is an arduous task to review each of the selections to pick the one that you want. It w...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Arranging Element Templates

I would like to be able to arrange my element templates by category. Then I would like to be able to arrange that category by reference templates. Right now, I can only do one or the other. This is not visually pleasing because if i arrange by c...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Improve selecting inputs for Formula DataReference with large number of attributes

When an element has a large number of attributes defined (e.g. 400), then it is very difficult to select an attribute as an input to the Formula DataReference because the dropdown does not have a scroll bar.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Multi Scale choice in PSE charts

We use PSE as a tool for user consumers, not only system administrators. When representing several series in a PSE chart we would be more efficient if we could: a) Open more than one PSE Chart simultaneouly b) In case of representing groups od ser...
Carlos Garcia over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Add to 'Value retrieval methods' the function "FILTER EXPRESSION"

Add into this calculation "FILTER EXPRESSION' like 'PI DATA LINK' . It function will allow to monitor total, average etc. with condition in on line mode for PI VISION. And will allow to use range for time period.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Allow HA AF servers to operate independently when the SQL cluster is only at one location (domain) and access to it from another domain or l

Cross domain SQL clusters are not available at my site.  I need the remote AF servers to work even though the SQL DB is not available.
BillBPA over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Add an error message when applying UOM to string value type attribute

When changing the value type to string of an attribute with an associated UOM, the following error is observed: "...cannot be changed to type 'String' because it has a unit of measure and 'String' does not support UOMs." When you have an existin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add the ability to create, edit, and delete annotations for attributes tied to PI Points in PSE

A use case for this request would be to provide a way to overcome the limitations and inconsistent behavior observed when rounding timestamps by PISDK client tools. Considering that AFSDK Clients would provide better subsecond timestamp handling. ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Option to define AF template dependencies for element deployment

Add an option to define dependencies in AF templates for element deployment. For example, if an expected table entry doesn’t exist, notify the user somehow. This will help more novice users to deploy new elements not knowing all of the initial ite...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined