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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.

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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Ability for admins to restrict PI Data query to 2 years at a time.

I would like to restrict PI Vision users from pulling data for more than 2 years at a stretch. This setting should also restrict the PI Data link as well. This will make the software more robust to query timeout. Just let users know they need to a...
Ronald Main about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Create/Update Youtube video about AF Security

The available Youtube videos about configuring AF security are not clear. There should be a video about how to configure and grant the proper permissions to a service account running the PI Analysis Service for a PI System where the AF Server and ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Have an option in AF Security to not pass down database security to newly created objects

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Hide Certain PI Point Attributes from Users

Implement a way to hide the contents of a PI point attribute, specifically the Instrumenttag attribute. With many PI interfaces, the InstrumentTag attribute will store the IP address of the source, and we (as well as many other utilities) have a r...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

User rights for viewing analytics

In many cases analytics should not be visible to everyone having right to view an AF-Database. Should be possible to direct whom should have view access to analytics. This is an extension to the obivious right to change analytics :)
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Security tool that allows management of PI Data Archive, Vision, and AF security settings

PI System Administrators would benefit from a client or PI SMT extension that supports auditing and modifying user access. This includes mapping Active Directory roles to PI Identities, managing PI Database and Point access, managing AF Database a...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

PI ProcessBook Support Tool: allow for PI Server values to be replaced for a subset of tags

The PI ProcessBook Support Tool allows for tags to be replaced and for PI Data Archive values to be replaced in ProcessBook displays using the Data Item Find and Replace. However, it does not allow you translate tags across PI Data Archives. For i...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined

Provide more user-friendly way to configure backups

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store thread history along with connection history in the server

Storing the thread history(pibasess/piarchss etc) along with the connection history will help to better understand and troubleshoot issues on the archive and will serve as a kind of auditing on the behavior of connections.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI collective with shared archives

Allow the Primary Data Archive server read-write access to any shared archives. All Secondary data archive servers would have read-only access. This would fix case Case # 925881. We have tags with old timestamps, for example, environmental limits,...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined