AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

    Showing 247 of 5192

    Enable designation of logical relationship for multiple Attribute filters

    Allow the designation of the logical relationship between multiple Attribute filters. Current filters are locked exclusively in an 'AND' relationship. It would be helpful to be able to set the relationship to 'OR'. For example, in searching throug...
    RandyHawley about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status

    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

    Official testing/support for application virtualization

    Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

    Option for PI Point Number Inserts instead of Tag Names - tag renames stop spreadsheets from working.

    ProcessBook stores tags by their pointid. If you change the name of a tag, It will still show up in ProcessBook. We would like to have the option to store tags in Xcel by the tag number instead of the name. As an example, we are getting ready to ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

    Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

    Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

    Add Access Right that Allow Users to Create Tags But Not Delete Tags

    As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status

    Enable DataLink to display the timestamps of calculated attributes in EF

    Enable DataLink (Explore Events) to display the timestamps of calculated attributes (e.g. maximum, minimum) of an Event Frame. Currently only the values are displayed. In PI System Explorer the requested timestamp is available. Reference to a for...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 No status

    Support named ranges to avoid issue KB01369

    Excel places named ranges in formulas when a cell has a named range (instead of cell references). Excel formulas become more readable this way. Datalink should support defined named ranges too. Editing a Datalink array formula directly in Excel a...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 11 No status

    Apply correct localhost.tz file during PI Data Archive installation

    To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

    PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

    With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status