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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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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

Make the UFL Connector logic development/testing/debugging process less tedious

Deploying a UFL Connector solution requires a LOT of edits of the INI file as part of the development/testing/debugging process. After each INI file change and file save, the required procedure is as follows: 1. Click on the Data Source List link...
Mic Paluszak over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 Declined

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

Remove or disable the PI Connector UFL function which puts "Excluded" into attributes

If the user has two different UFL flows working on same elements and attributes, one flow puts "Excluded" into the attributes created within the second one and vice versa. Giving the possibility to the user to disable this function would be a sma...
rodolforotti over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

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

Connector (UFL) can read AF data structure

Right now it is a limitation because of the current functionality / design. In the future it would be nice if: - the connector can read the existing AF structure - update the existing AF structure - create elements / EF / attributes under existin...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

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

Create/Write to Child Attributes

I would like to be able to write to Child attributes with the UFL connector using the StoreInElement function. Currently, it seems that the Connector cannot write to or create an attribute with a path like: ..\Element|ParentAttribute|ChildAttribu...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL Connector Event Frame Generator enhancement and bugfixes

Currently it is not possible to create an event frame from the PI UFL Connector linked to an existing element, despite the documentation does not specifically mention this restriction, you can only link the new event frame to an element created wi...
Andy over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 2 No status