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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.

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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Provide more granular configuration for default ACLs

As a PI Administrator of a PI System with complex security requirements, I need to set up different default permissions for various users so they can create tags that automatically have the proper security instead of having to rely on a process/pr...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Provide easier workflow to retrieve the recorded values for EF attribute

As a DataLink user, I would like to see all the values of the event frame attributes during the start and end time using the Explore Events function so that I don't need to ask for the compressed values during that time range for each of the attri...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 2 No status

Support User Information in Connection History Tool

(pidiag -connectionhistory) Support the collection and retrieval of PI / Windows user information by the connection history database.   Currently, the connection history database only stores IP addresses which can be misleading when m...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

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

Enable designation of logical relationship for multiple Attribute filters

Allow the designation of the logical relationship between multiple Attribute filters. Current filters are locked exclusively in an 'AND' relationship. It would be helpful to be able to set the relationship to 'OR'. For example, in searching throug...
RandyHawley about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 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

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

Enable DataLink to display the timestamps of calculated attributes in EF

Enable DataLink (Explore Events) to display the timestamps of calculated attributes (e.g. maximum, minimum) of an Event Frame. Currently only the values are displayed. In PI System Explorer the requested timestamp is available. Reference to a for...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 No status