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.


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    Factory Talk Batch Interface EVT file contains useful data in the Recipe column. Can we please add Recipe as a placeholder in the Interface?

    The EVT file from FTB has 27 columns, the most populated one is Recipe. There is useful information there that could be used to filter and select data for storage in PI. Unfortunately it isn't available in the Placeholder list of 42 placeholders f...
    Nathan Skitt 10 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Tell us more

    Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

    Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
    Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

    Windows authentication of clients

    As a PI user, I want the OPC DA and HDA Servers to honor the Windows identity of any connected OPC client.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OPC DA & HDA Servers 0 Declined

    Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

    Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

    PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

    Rearrange the Archive tab in the Point Builder to reflect the relationship between settings

    If the Compressing attribute of a PI Point is set to Off, then the compression settings are greyed out, which makes sense because they are irrelevant if Compressing is Off. However, if a PI Point has its Archiving attribute set to Off, nothing is ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Tell us more

    Normalized view of the Database Security Table

    Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

    Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

    As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

    Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

    PSD to report on SQL Server install

    I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined