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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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

AF SDK vs claim authentication

We currently have an issue with Docker based windows applications that we cannot enable windows authentication due to outdated AD architecture. Once suggestion is that we use claims based authentication, but this will only work for PI Web API and ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

PI Analysis and Notifications Redundant in a PI AF Collective Environment

I would like PI Analysis and Notifications to be redundant when a PI AF Collective is in use. This would allow for monthly Microsoft patching to no longer cause outages in these two services.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

AF PSE Version Control

As a user I would like to have versioning control of all ad-hoc element attributes and its analysis as well as element attributes that are part of an element template. Currently we have to manually export XML files of everything in our Database ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

AF Administrator PSE Force Check-In for Users

Have an option in PSE for AF Administrators to be able check in other users' checked out changes, in addition to being able to undo other users' check outs.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Have a less security intrusive way of monitoring PI AF Audit trail is enabled

Currently the account used to monitor that the Audit trail is enabled requires sysadmin privileges. This is even checked in the related stored procedures. Our database security team sees this permanent need of sysadmin rights as a thread and also ...
Carl Van Laer over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow Table Link to be installed on AF Client

Since it's already possible to import a table through an AF Client, it would be nice to be able to do the same for Table Links. Currently doing so results in an error: "Unable to link to external table: Unexpected Server Error". See KCS: "Unexpe...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status