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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Add a string array function to extract all items into a string result

Our process is writing an array of strings into an AF attribute of the same type. This AF attribute may receive information of different size (index) in time. We need to extract all the information contained in the string array (all the items) an...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Additional capabilities for rollup analyses

I find myself making analytics on child elements which by themselves have limited value, but are needed to get rollup analyses to work. This adds complexity to the design of AF. Two ideas would improve this: 1) Count # of attributes that meet a c...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Add support to create custom AFAnalysisRule plugins

I would like to create a custom AFAnalysisRule that allows us to leverage the resources on the PI Analysis Service to perform calculations that the Analysis Service currently cannot perform. These calculations include matrix operations, array oper...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Use default servers and AF database from local KST for first time PI Builder users

As a user, I want my experience to be as seamless as possible when using PI Builder so that I can get the information I need quicker. Currently, PI Builder will Default the servers/database chosen to when a user first opens up PI Builder (after a...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

More flexible search results for PI Builder

Allow users more selection of which columns to include in search results (before tag selection). Some customers may wish to reference tag metadata that cannot currently be displayed, including InstrumentTag and UserInt1. Note that this is not ref...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Event Frames Scalability - For Customer Advisory Lab Scenarios

#of assets (in this specific scenario): 500-1000 EF Count: Generation rate of 25,000/day peak, would like to historize for 1+y = 9,000,000 events+ Attributes: 5-10 attributes/event (static or PI Point) Flat Hierarchy Queries: EF are alarms or ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Store event frame start and end time as DateTime to allow sub-millisecond duration event frames

Because event frame start and end time are stored as a bigint datatype in PIFD.dbo.AFEventFrame, the precision only seems to be to the nearest millisecond. This is a problem for sub-millisecond event frames. Why aren't event frame start and end ti...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 3 No status

Add an Annotations column to the Event Frames search window

It would be nice to add an Annotations column to the search page of Event Frames, so that I can better analyze them directly from PSE for administration purposes
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Keeping old events that have been manually worked on in case of Recalculation/Backfill

Case 1. There are some EFs that should be acknowledged and commented by equipment owners. In Pharma World, these comments qualify as GxP and shall not be deleted. Whereas Event Frames generated by analysis can sometimes due to data coming late or ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status

End first child event frame when StartTrigger condition no longer is fulfilled

Currently child event frames are only created when the following applies: + There's an End Trigger + There's a second Start Trigger that takes over Unlike later child event frames, the first one will not end simply because its own Start Trigger c...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status