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

    Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

    Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
    Dorin IACOB about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

    Allow for a timeshift of certain tags, depending on process time delay

    To be able to delay some signals by x amount of hours would allow save tremendous amount of data handling into Excel. Some apps like Visplore offer that right at the display. I'm sure that the PI team can come up with a solution for that.
    Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Allow converting compatible formulas to dynamic arrays on an entire spreadsheet

    Right now, it is tedious to convert an existing spreadsheet to use dynamic arrays since each formula needs to be converted one-by-one. It would be helpful to have a way to convert formulas in bulk.
    Jessica Rammo over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Make a GUI for PI Backups for easy management

    It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files. Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You could...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined