AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new feedback site!


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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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Asset Framework (AF)

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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...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 7 No Status

PI Asset Framework - Add string "join" function to Asset Analytics

Please add a "Join" function in Asset Analytics to combine string values in an array into one string. This would allow us to combine a varying number of outputs into one single variable that can be written to one attribute. Then, when that output ...
Gregory Malek 3 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Automatically update the ConfigString of attributes and attribute templates when renames occur

The ConfigString of attributes and attribute templates stores information such as references to PI Points, substitution parameters and formula parameters that refer to other attributes or attribute templates, and the source unit (abbreviation of t...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

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: ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No Status

Further development of PI AF scripting functions

In many UseCases we need more programability functions in PI. As example loop functions. We like the AF Framework, beacuse if you search in case of a problem you are very fast. But the functionaclity is unfortunatly not very rich. Please integrat...
photi24 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No Status

Increase assembly description character limit for AF Plugins

Currently when inserting an AF plugin via RegPlugin64.exe , there is a 1000 character hard limit for the AssemblyDescription parameter that the AF plugin has in its AssemblyInfo.cs class. It has been found that some plugins have more than 1000 cha...
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No Status

Ability to search find where specific UOM are used

As a user, I want to be able to find where specific UOM are used, so that I know the impact of UOM changes to my PI AF hierarchy.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No Status

Ability to create/modify/delete PI Points using PI System Explorer

As a user, I want to be able to create/modify/delete PI Points using PI System Explorer, so that I do not have to use multiple tools to manage my PI Points and AF objects.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 Declined