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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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Dictionary encoding of strings in string tags

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Allow edited default tag attributes to be used in Point Builder SMT Plugin

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Refresh button for the Interface Configuration Utility (ICU)

When doing certain changes within the ICU (like configuring buffering for an interface) the end user has to close out of the ICU and then open it back up just for the ICU to refresh and reference change within higher versions of the ICU that have ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Tag Name Search Count recorded in PI Tag

Could the feature of counting the number of pi tags (by prefix) and display it in PI Tag or PI Vision. In Microsoft Excel's PI Builder, I would query for pi tags starting with "dist*" and get a count.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Allow specifying a range of older archive files to backup in piartool

The piartool -backup command has multiple parameters that allow for specifying a number of archives to copy. For example it is possible to specify a number of archives to backup starting at the current time (-numarch), or each archive number can b...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Change of a collective member within a collective manager

No description provided
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Easy selection of PI Archives to Backup

Currently, if we want to do a backup of an archive in SMT, we have to tick it. But the customer may has like 500 archives and wants to copy 100 of them. There is currently no friendly-user way to select multiple archives (without unregister them) ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Have PI System Tray notify the user when an error occurs with analysis (any) on AF Server

PI System Tray is pretty useful to warn about errors in PI Data Archive. It would be very good if it could warn about failed analysis so actions can be taken in a timely fashion
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Have better default column widths, dynamic auto-fitting of columns

When I first open PI System Management tools, the column widths in many of the plug-ins that use tables usually don't make much sense. For example, some columns start off too narrow to show the entirety of their longest value, which might not be t...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

Add ability to honor archive list file locations when adding new server to PI HA Collective

When adding a new server to a PI HA Collective, all archive files selected to be included in the initialization are copied and registered with the new server in one defined location in collective manager.  This can create more manual work for...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status