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 object specific Audit Trails to be accessed by object level Administrators

Currently to view the Audit Trails of any object on an AF Server, Server level Administrator privileges are needed. There should be the ability for a user that does not have server level administrator to view the Audit Trails of a specific object...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Add alternatives to reset Active Directory Properties in AF

Please add more ways to reset, or modify, the Active Directory Properties in AF, to be able to search for contacts, as currently the only ways are through PSE and by using AF SDK code. If those properties are misconfigured or the account used is m...
Daniel Füeß Soares 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow AF Table to use subsecond timestamps for DateTime columns

Allow DateTime columns in AF Tables to show subseconds Events come in with very similar timstamps except subsecond level. For example 2025-01-14 03:55:01.533 XYZ and 2025-01-14 03:55:01.833 ABC but in AF Table columns subsecond is not show so both...
Guest 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Possibility to change units of template based attributes

I have template based elements including analysis that can be used for calculations with a variety of units (tonnes, MWh,...). So it would be great to have the possibility to change the units of template based attributes. At the moment they are fi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 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) 2 No status

Enhance Analysis Template Search Option in PSE Management Tab

When searching by Template in PSE Management tab all analysis templates are returned in the drop down list. This can result in hundreds of options being listed depending on the size of the AF Server and database. This makes it very complicated and...
Mario Carioni 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 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

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