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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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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Display path of element in the PSE

As a user, I would like to be able to easily see the full path of an element in the General tab, and be able to copy this path to my clipboard.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Make Excluded attribute easier to apply

Can the option to exclude an attribute be made easier to use in PI System Explorer? I have many elements which require hiding attributes and it currently requires 6 clicks per attribute to hide them. Could we instead have a check box available dir...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

URI DataReference to support substitution variables

The URI DataReference cannot use substitution variables, and thus if you have 1000 URI attributes to refer to a Coresight display, you need to specify your Coresight server 1000 times. Having that URI (or other parts) in another attribute would be...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow Moving Child Attributes

Provide a way to move child attributes to another parent attribute. Currently, it is required to create a new child attribute in the destination parent attribute then delete the original child attribute.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Log SQL server name when throwing network-related or instance-specific errors

When the AF Server throws a network-related or instance-specific SQL error it only says that it failed to establish a connection to "SQL Server". It further says to check if the instance name is correct. However, it never says to what SQL server...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Expose AF Server Properties (Counts) as PI Points

As AF Admin, it would be helpful to be able to archive and track the Database Property Count as a PI Point/Attribute to track the progress of AF deployment
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Automatically set an attribute's Value Type based on the PI Point point type

If an attribute uses a PI Point data reference, automatically set the attribute's Value Type based on the PI Point's point type.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Publish Element Searches Publicly in System Explorer

Ability to 'Publish' Element searches in System Explorer for all users to see. This ability exists now but the search is only available to user who created it. This would let users create custom element searches within each AF database that could...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Security settings identities

Security setting for an identity must be sen in the PI server and AF should get that. Why create additional identities in AF as well. Duplication creates risk for errors and requires additional maintenance.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Improve management of templates which create PI tags

Currently managing attribute templates which can create tags is very laborious. It is an issue particularly when dealing with different security settings for tags. Improvements suggested would include - have the ability to create and maintain mu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status