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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.

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Improve usability of TagNum function

The TagNum function seems to be the only function that requires a double quote as opposed to single quotes. Many other TagXXX functions call for single quotes for its attribute or PI Point arguments.
Jinmo Yi about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Thorough Analysis service message logs

Having more thorough and detailed messages for the Analysis service in the event logs, especially upon startup. Environment details + Language settings that the Analysis service is using should be mentioned in the startup logs in order to better ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Allow Analysis timestamp override feature to output milliseconds

When using an analysis variable as the output timestamp, it appears that the actual output timestamp is floored to the nearest second, shaving off any millisecond count. This is not a huge priority on our end, but I wanted to ask in case it was a ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Remove tag need for Exit() and NoOutput() in analysis

Allow analysis outputting to Analysis Data Reference attributes to make use of the functions Exit() and NoOutput(), instead of requiring only PI Point Data Reference attributes.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Add the ability to upload raw data to the PI Data Archive

If PI Builder could upload raw data to PI, manual data entry would be greatly simplified. There are a few ways to enter data manually in PI, but each method has severe drawbacks: • Archive Editor in PI SMT Problems: hard to add data to multiple ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 3 Declined

Eliminate the 2-cell-wide blank border around PI Builder data

When I import data using PI Builder, I usually want to filter the data and create calculated columns, but these prove to be more painful than necessary. If I put filters on the columns containing PI Builder data and then click on the filter dropd...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 6 No status

Minimize the recalculation of volatile cells

Currently, PI Builder data is imported row by row. Each imported row causes all volatile cells in all open workbooks and any cells downstream of them in the dependency tree to recalculate. PI Builder will not import a new row until this calculatio...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Rename "PIAFBuilder" to "PI Builder" in Excel's add-in lists

The name "PIAFBuilder" still appears in at least 2 places in Excel (see the attached screenshots): File → Options → Add-ins Developer tab → COM Add-ins Please change the name to "PI Builder". "PI AF Builder" was the name of PI Builder before PI A...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Improve formatting for changedate and creationdate properties in PI Builder Excel Add-in

When querying PI Points within PI Builder we see the changedate and creationdate properties show up in the format "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" which is not the default format that Excel wants for filtering and sorting columns by date/time. However, we do...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Ability to edit "escalation team" member priority in PI Builder

There is currently no way to edit priority for member of an escalation team in bulk, it has to be done one by one in PSE. For users that have 30+ escalation teams, this is a lot of tedious work. it would be nice to be able to pull in the escalatio...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status