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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Have a less security intrusive way of monitoring PI AF Audit trail is enabled

Currently the account used to monitor that the Audit trail is enabled requires sysadmin privileges. This is even checked in the related stored procedures. Our database security team sees this permanent need of sysadmin rights as a thread and also ...
Carl Van Laer over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Support AWS RDS SQL Server instances as backend DBs for AF

Our company is progressively superseding the deployment of hosts with SQL Server installed, while moving towards the usage of SQL Server instances provided by AWS' Relational Database Service as the DB backend. Although currently OSISoft does not ...
alviserossi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 Evaluating

Let me configure AF to use REST CALLS to PULL data from External Systems

I'd like the ability to configure AF to utilize a RESTful call to an external system, return and parse the JSON and update AF attributes from these external systems. This would save a tremendous amount of time building and maintaining customer code.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow Table Link to be installed on AF Client

Since it's already possible to import a table through an AF Client, it would be nice to be able to do the same for Table Links. Currently doing so results in an error: "Unable to link to external table: Unexpected Server Error". See KCS: "Unexpe...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Child attributes should not be "included" if parent is "included"

When a parent attribute template is excluded, but included at the element level, all child attributes are also included. It makes sense if a parent attribute is set to excluded all child attributes should also be set to excluded. However, if a par...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Specifying optional parameters in AF Link Table Stored Procedure call

Right now the AF Link Table Query does not have elegant way of specifying the optional parameters in the call to Stored Procedures. Therefore, if an optional parameter occurs before mandatory parameter, then the optional parameter has to be suppli...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to create a list of frequently used Contacts for use in PI Notification

The option for users to create a list of commonly used Contacts for use in PI Notifications subscribers would save the hassle of individually searching contacts each time members are added to a subscription. Additionally, using Contact Groups are ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

AF XML Export/Import to Support Ordering by ID

AF XML Export supports exporting object IDs in the XML and Import supports preserving them. It would be useful if the export could be optionally sorted by ID as this would allow comparing different version of the XML (i.e. AF database) using Git. ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Ability to Customize Trend Line in PI System Explorer

Add the ability to customize the trend line attributed in PI System Explorer. This includes line type, line thickness, color, point types, point colors, etc.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Add filters support to AF Summary calculations

PI-DataLink allows for filtering of aggregate calculations, for example to get the average inlet temperature of a compressor when the turbine speed is > 1000 RPM. This is not possible with AF. The KB01120 article does not work and is very mess...
Simon J. Dyson over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 6 No status