AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Asset Framework (AF)

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Copy paste issue for child attributes

On PI System explorer when you copy an attribute with child attributes, only the first child attribute get's copied as well and the rest is missing. This was working with PI System Explorer 2016 R2 SP1 whereas it does not with Version 2018 SP3 pat...
PhilippEven 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add IsExcluded('attribute') function to AF Analysis.

Add new isexcluded(attribute_reference) function to be able to easier distinguish between Tag/Attribute errors and excluded attributes. Currently it is quite tricky to filter if an attribute is in error due to data source error or an excluded tag....
PhilippEven 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Include logs for when an AF database is deleted in the AF event viewer logs

Currently, to confirm when an AF database has been deleted + by which user, AF audit trail needs to be enabled. Audit trails tend to take up a lot of space and many users decide not to enable them. It would be beneficial to include logs each time ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add read perrmission to the Event Frame Template

It would be great to add read permission to the security table of EF Template. Now you can't deny read access to one specific EF Template. You can only deny access to all templates and to generated EFs, but not to specific template. This can be a...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Limit element creation using reference types

I’m designing an AF database where we want most things to be correctly set up and planned on the template side, so that end-users can create the AF content later. One of the functionalities I use is creating my own reference types i PI System Expl...
Asle Frantzen over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Use %Duration% with Formula Data Reference as Best Practice for EF Duration Attribute (AF 2017 R2+)

This is a followup to discussions with Roger Palmen and Rick Davin about their excellent writeups on the topic of EF Duration attributes; see Event Frame duration - easy way in AF2.6 or higher & Duration attribute on an Event Frame - Part 1 , ...
Brent Bregenzer over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Possibility to disable the message "An AFEnumerationSet matching the digital state set for PI Point was not found" in PI System Explorer

I would like to have the option to disable the feature introduced in PI System Explorer 2018 SP2 to pop up the following message when an Enumeration set does not match the name of a digital set in the PI Data Archive: "An AFEnumerationSet matching...
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status

Provide the ability to have attribute template that can be used in multiple element templates (attribute sets)

As an user I want to be able to configure attribute templates that can be used in multiple element templates, so that I can used common attributes between different templates. For example, create three templates representing 3 different kinds of m...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Update description of existing elements and analysis when template description is updated

When a element or analysis template description is changed, descriptions of existing elements or analyses are not updated. The description is only updated when the element or analysis is created. A customer has proposed the following options: I...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 No status

AF should react better to unhandled exceptions from a linked table provider

When an OLE DB or ODBC provider returns an unhandled exception for a linked table to the PI AF Application Service , it would be better for it either handle the exception and not crash, or to log the exception, the linked table name and provider n...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status