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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Allow edited default tag attributes to be used in Point Builder SMT Plugin

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Refresh button for the Interface Configuration Utility (ICU)

When doing certain changes within the ICU (like configuring buffering for an interface) the end user has to close out of the ICU and then open it back up just for the ICU to refresh and reference change within higher versions of the ICU that have ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Tag Name Search Count recorded in PI Tag

Could the feature of counting the number of pi tags (by prefix) and display it in PI Tag or PI Vision. In Microsoft Excel's PI Builder, I would query for pi tags starting with "dist*" and get a count.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Allow specifying a range of older archive files to backup in piartool

The piartool -backup command has multiple parameters that allow for specifying a number of archives to copy. For example it is possible to specify a number of archives to backup starting at the current time (-numarch), or each archive number can b...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Change of a collective member within a collective manager

No description provided
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Supporting Decimal type for PI tag in PI Data Archive

For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...
Peng Li about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

How to fix errors that prevent users from creating new PI Points, other than restarting the services.

Occasionally an error that prevent users from creating new PI Points occurs. In this case, I would like you to prepare other error resolution methods, because restarting the services will make the PI system temporarily unavailable.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Create "aliases" of a pipoint using attributes

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

online managed switch of primary member in a collective

Hi, this idea is to allow an automated command in the collective manager in order to perform in a single command downgrade the current primary server to just "secondary" role without rebuilding "all" the DA server, and at the same time to promote ...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status