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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Allow the boxes in PI System Explorer's Security Configuration window to be vertically resized

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the border under the "Items to Configure" box and above "Identities" and "Permissions for" should be adjustable. This would allow "Items to Configure" to grow and the other 2 boxes to shrink...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

AF external table cache

We have some central tables which we want to be accessible for all AF users like the central telephone directory (to add information about maintenance contacts for example). This table is quite big in a company with several thousands of employees ...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call.

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call. In PI Server 2012 the time of the value was shown when using the RelativeTime call from PI System Explorer. In the PI ...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Expose whether or not an attribute template is overridden on the element in PI System Explorer

When I override an attribute template on an element (for example, changed descriptions), it would be useful to see some sort of flag on the attribute in PSE to let me know that it’s no longer linked to the template
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Alphabetize Selections in drop downbox when creating filters in EF, etc.

In PI System Explorer, when creating a filter for looking at Event Frames, in the dropdown box, the selection items aren’t sorted in alphabetic order.  It is an arduous task to review each of the selections to pick the one that you want. It w...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve selecting inputs for Formula DataReference with large number of attributes

When an element has a large number of attributes defined (e.g. 400), then it is very difficult to select an attribute as an input to the Formula DataReference because the dropdown does not have a scroll bar.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add an error message when applying UOM to string value type attribute

When changing the value type to string of an attribute with an associated UOM, the following error is observed: "...cannot be changed to type 'String' because it has a unit of measure and 'String' does not support UOMs." When you have an existin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

AF SDK vs claim authentication

We currently have an issue with Docker based windows applications that we cannot enable windows authentication due to outdated AD architecture. Once suggestion is that we use claims based authentication, but this will only work for PI Web API and ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 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

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