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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New attribute for a PI point type ID

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i cou...
Hobbe about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Tell us more

Store multiple events at the same timestamp

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Store a timestamp of when an event enters the archive database

We have a use case that could be solved very easy if we have had this as a column in the data archive. Use case: We have made PI data availible through an own made API to our clients. They use this API to fetch data from our database and into thei...
Ole Dybsjord Skarsvag almost 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 almost 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Remove grayed out PI Tag Configurator link in newer versions of SMT

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Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Backup pre-commited

As a Pi Admin, it would be usefull to be able to locate the Precommit directory used during the PI backup process to a different location from the Backup directory
jerome.boudon about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Confirm connection before writing to PI DA

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Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Changing PI Data Archive Security Slider

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Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Repeatedly loop future data

Customer would like to be able to loop future data.  For instance since yearly temperatures are about the same every year for a given month, it would be nice if only one set of the projections are stored somewhere and just repeated again and ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined