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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Add feature to AF Table to quickly pull up all Attribute Table Lookup references to that table

Just like how you can pull up all the Derived Elements for a element template, it would be very beneficial to see all the attributes with Table Lookup references to a particular table. See proposed addition to the General Tab of an AF Table.
Andre Perez 11 months 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 about 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 about 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 about 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status

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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Prevent Analysis calc failure for attribute not found

If the same analysis is trying to be used for multiple templates, there will be times when some attributes are not available from a template - this will cause the analysis to fail. Even when the difference in attributes is known and attempted to b...
Dan Benedict 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

New attribute trait: PI Tag Name

Since using the child attribute "PI Tag Name" to hold the actual tag name is considered best practice in AF, why not encourage it even more by making it an attribute trait? Another option would be the ability to expose the actual tag name as a pr...
Asle Frantzen about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined