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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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Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

Use of aliases for tag names

Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard ta...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make failback function optional

In the DA collective there is a function called "Failback". The function is described as: << When the collective member which the client application was connected to becomes unavailable, the client connection starts monitoring when the memb...
ErikJansson over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Drag/Add symbols without data items / blank symbols / emtpy symbols

Like in PI ProcessBook you could add an empty Trend, copy-paste many times, to start a dashboard, we need the ability to add empty trends to a display, to then populate it with attributes. With the extensibility feature, it often doesn't make sen...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Authoring Displays 1 Declined

Symbols with Different Timestamps

The ability to create PI Vision displays with symbols (value, gauge, table) that display data at different timestamps or over different time ranges.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Authoring Displays 0 No status

Enable the ability to add a comment or description when saving a display

It would be good to be able to add a comment/descriptor when saving a PI Vision display. Especially now that PI Vision 2021 is working on saving a display to a file this becomes even more relevant, as we will be able to indirectly create versions ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Authoring Displays 0 No status

Move Fit-All option to checkbox on Format Display

There is no way to determine if fit all option is on or off, if a display is edited, fit all is reset and most times the display is saved again without fit all. (and you cant just select fit all and resave) Move the fit all option to the display ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Authoring Displays 0 No status