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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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PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
Nathan Skitt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI AF Link & PIBatch - Ability to uninstall it

PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

AI Detection for Stale Points

As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Builder writing to Attributes that are Data References

PI Builder cannot write to Attributes that are Data References. It should be able to.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Declined

Additional Import/Export option for servers that do not have an Excel plugin

The excel plugin is very useful for making bulk edits and changes.  Unfortunately, all customers either do not have the excel software plugin or flat out do not allow the installation of excel on their machines thus eliminating the ability to...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 Tell us more

Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator"

Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator":  PI Builder cannot import attributes of a list of tags pasted into the spreadsheet from another source like "PI Tag Configurator" could.  With PI Builder, if you have want to work on...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 8 No status

Analysis configuration on PI Builder

It would be nice to split the configuration string of an Analysis Rule along several Excel cells, for (i) better readability and (ii) avoid hitting the limit of characters on a single Excel cell (currently, 32,767 characters). It would be special...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Add the "Enable Analyses when created from template" option to PI Builder

Would like to have the possibility to edit the option: Enable Analyses when created from template, for Analysis category in PI Builder.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status