AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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.


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Data Archive

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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 1 year 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 tag naming c...
Guest over 1 year 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 (?)   Curr...
Guest over 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Ability for admins to restrict PI Data query to 2 years at a time.

I would like to restrict PI Vision users from pulling data for more than 2 years at a stretch. This setting should also restrict the PI Data link as well. This will make the software more robust to query timeout. Just let users know they need to a...
Ronald Main 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Make a GUI for PI Backups for easy management

It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files. Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You cou...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Prevent PI-TAGs to be overwritten with new data for certain time range

Normally our TAGs are filled with data coming from an analysis (or PI-Equation) by snapshot-data or recalculated data. But sometimes we have to do manual corrections due to data loss and have to write data to this PI-TAGs manually. And we are not ...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Automated re-compression/average after a period of time

As a PI Administrator, currently there is no way to compress or average (then delete) your data automatically after an event reaches a certain age. It would be nice to have the ability to automatically compress or average specific tags after the e...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined