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.

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.


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Asset Framework (AF)

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Ability to move an AF element within the hierarchy in PSE by right-clicking on the element

When moving an AF element within the hierarchy in PSE using the "Shift key + Drag and Drop" approach, it can cause to create an Element reference if the release of the "Shift key" is done before dropping the element. Having the option of right-cl...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Harmonize Attribute Editor and Attribute Template Editor

Currently Attribute Template Editor and Attribute Editor behave different regarding visualisation of templates when using derived templates. Attribute Template Editor shows the attributes of the base template only if Group By Template is checked....
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

Substitution Parameters for PI Point Exdesc

I would like to have an out of the box way for an attribute to display a pipoint exdesc. One thought would be able to have a substitution parameter that would point at the pipoints exdesc.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Support "category" for the name substitution parameter in AF template

Use category of an attribute for the name substitution parameter of the PI point data reference
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

AF "instrumenttag property request

Users would like to be able to pull in the instrumenttag of a PI point into an attribute that is referencing it.  This isn't currently possible because the AF server and any attribute aren’t aware of most properties of the PI point itself, so...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Automatic re-connection to AF database after network interruption

Avoid having to manually reconnect to the AF database in PSE whenever a client computer returns from standby after the network connection has returned. Other PI client tools such as SMT are able to automatically re-establish connection under these...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

XML Export/Import to Support Object Deletion

XML Export/Import supports modifying and renaming of objects (the latter when the Preserve ID option is selected). It would be useful if this could be extended to support deletion of objects, e.g. deleting an Element, Template, Analysis etc that e...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Change UoM, Display Digits of attribute independently of element template

Currently, if an attribute is created with a Unit of Measurement in an element template, it is not possible to change the Unit of Measurement in the element created from that template. If no UoM is given in the template, then the UoM of the under...
Christoph Rose over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Provide Alarm management function

I would like to monitor and manage alerts & events gathered from PI Interface for OPC AE to create a report like Top 10 alarms, Floating Alarm, Operator Alarm, because by default PI System will collect AE as a string and stored it. Should we h...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 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 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status