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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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Force Shift warning is misleading

When force shifting an archive, the following message is displayed: "Warning: This shift will clear data from the target archive. Are you sure you want to force an archive shift on to a new archive?" When Auto Archive Creation is enabled (having...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make it easier to get a list of buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive

For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Create PI Web API performance counters to monitor the crawl state of various databases

As an PI administrator I need to monitor the health of the index files created by the PI Web API Crawler. In particular, if the last crawl date has not been updated recently or other errors show up. This is currently done by manually visiting the ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 Declined

Create PI Point with Point Source

Allow create PI Point passsing Point Source with parameter.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Have the ability to show hidden attributes in the response request for attributes

When requesting attributes using /elements/{WebId}/attributes or child attributes using /attributes/{WebId}/attributes it would be nice to have an argument ?showHidden=true|false so that hidden attributes could be retrieved. I was trying to write ...
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

Informative error message for the OMF Client

If the OMF Type Template is missing, for example if it is manually deleted, sending an OMF Data Message via PI Web API returns the exception "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" via PI Web API. This gives no hint about the missin...
Abishek Lakandri 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

Restrict Access to Web API Endpoint by User

As a PI Web API administrator, I would like to natively restrict which users can and cannot see particular URLs and controllers on my PI Web API endpoint.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 Declined

Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Add Access Right that Allow Users to Create Tags But Not Delete Tags

As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status