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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Tag search within a trend object

I would like the ability to search for tags to add to a trend similar to the functionality in Process Book. When trouble shooting it is handy to be able to add new tags to a trend without having to go back and forth between different views. The se...
Kastst almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / User Experience 0 No status

Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
Dorin IACOB almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

PI EMDVB - Set Procedure start time to match first Unit Procedure start time

Currently, when an operator adds a new batch to the DeltaV Batch List, that "creation" action starts a new EF Procedure. But the batch might sit in that list for a long time before the Unit actually starts processing it. This leads to a huge empty...
Guest 6 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Allow automatic interface restart based on Device Status

In some cases, such as when using a tunneller, the PI interface for OPC DA requires a restart to resume collecting data. A feature that allows an automatic restart of the service based on the value of the Device status Health tag would avoid human...
Alberto Tedesco over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Add ability to re-sort data points added to a trend or ad-hoc trend.

Points listed on an ad-hoc trend cannot be moved up or down in the list to change order. Points currently have to be deleted and re-added in correct order.
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Ad Hoc Analysis 0 No status

Allow converting compatible formulas to dynamic arrays on an entire spreadsheet

Right now, it is tedious to convert an existing spreadsheet to use dynamic arrays since each formula needs to be converted one-by-one. It would be helpful to have a way to convert formulas in bulk.
Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

accept relative time period as historical start time for transfer settings

Business requirement to re-transfer dataset due either to network or server related issue(s).
Guest over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status

Allow user to set defaults for trends (colors of traces and background, number of ad hocs per trend, font size, similar to Processbook

This would allow the user a consistent view when opening trends as well as being able to set font size to be able to view the trend on various size monitors. Also, having the ability to set the number of ad hocs per trend like Processbook allowed ...
Shane Loehr about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Ad Hoc Analysis 0 No status

GitHub samples need updates for OMF 1.2 spec with PI Web API

OMF 1.2 specification have been out now.However, the current samples for OMF w/ PI Web API (BasicAPI, ComplexDynamic and Bart Ingress ) only feature OMF 1.1 versions.PI Developers will need OMF 1.2 samples in GitHub so that they have a reference t...
Jinmo Yi about 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Ability to use multiple attribute filters with an 'OR' condition with Explore Events and Compare Events functions

Attribute value filters in the Explore Events and Compare Events functions in PI DataLink are 'AND' conditions as documented in the doc topic Explore Events task-pane reference . It would be helpful to use multiple filters with an 'OR' condition i...
Zoe Altenberg about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status