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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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PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

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

Improve Visibility for Automatic Task Pane

As user of PI DataLink, I would like the Automatic Task Pane to highlight the referenced cells in different colours that the functions (e.g. Sampled Data) are using. It helps to improve visibility and reduce confusion.
Willy Seah 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 No status

Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in

Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in the PI tag search. Currently all filter conditions are AND. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26991OSI8
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 1 Declined

Return the Values of Timestamp Data Items in Timestamp Format

The values of timestamp tags or AF attributes should be formatted as timestamp in Excel by default. Currently they are returned as integers, and then users have to manually convert them into timestamps.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined