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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    smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

    When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

    Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better tracking

    Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better system evaluation.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

    Replace the batch (.bat) scripts in the %PISERVER% folder with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

    This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

    Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

    Datalink Search menu not intuitive

    The Search menu in PI Datalink 2016 is confusing for users used to PI Tag searches elsewhere in the PI System. "In a row" and "In a column" are particularly confusing, as they suggest that searches are being performed within the row or column. Thi...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

    Option to disable automatic connections to AF Servers

    I would like the ability to disable automatic connections to specific AF Servers. Currently client applications (DataLink) are implicitly connecting to all AF Servers in the AF "KST". This results in very slow startup times for Excel. For customer...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

    Add Support for SharePoint Server 2016 to PI DataLink Server

    Customer has a plan to upgrade their SharePoint Server to 2016 but currently it's hold off and pending on whether it will be supported by PI DataLink Server.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 0 Declined

    For compressed data, have the option to return the tagname (for example, similar to how the count is returned at the top).

    If multiple tags are selected for 1 compressed data function, it is difficult to determine which data is associated with the tags. On behalf of Elizabeth Metzler elizabeth.metzler@enbridge.com
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Integrate with Excel Undo feature

    If you make a mistake or overwrite information while working with PI Datalink information there is no way to undo it without deleting or recalculating the information completely.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Users should be able to define display digits on Archive editor

    Currently the Archive editor doesn't allow users to define how many digits should be shown for the data values and it does not follow the DisplayDigits tag attribute setting. Users should be able to define how many digits to be shown.
    Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status