AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Add failover capability for the BACnet Connector.

Failover similar to the UFO available for UNIint interfaces.  Warm failover would be sufficient, although I'm sure there are some who would like cold and hot as well.
Chris Wozniak over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 1 No status

Switch for using Name of AF Attributes from Browsable Name or Display Name

Add a Switch to the OPC UA Connector that we can choose if we want the AF Attributes to be created using "Browsable Name" or "Display Name". Using the Display Name would make it much easier for us to locate the Attribute and refer to its OPC Tag a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 No status

Increase the default log size

The current default log size in the event viewer is 1MB. Although it can easily be increased, a larger default (100MB+) would allow to catch errors the first time they occur and allow for further troubleshooting then having to change it and have t...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Add filtering and rolling log system to AFGetTrace

When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Add Access Right that Allow Users to Create Tags But Not Delete Tags

As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status

2 factor authentication

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Add an analysis function to find the Kth largest value in an array

Expression analyses allow you to find the largest value of an attribute over a specified time range using the TagMax function. A function which offers the ability the find the Kth largest value (i.e. 2nd, 3rd, etc.) would be useful. Something simi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Asset Analytics should have a performance counter to indicate data loss on the UpdateManager queue

Currently there is no way to know if Analytics missed important updates (e.g. start of a batch) without analyzing the message logs. However, the AFSDK does provide an indication on the DataPipe if the pipe is in an overflow state, allowing for a c...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Insert New Variable in Analysis Template

I would like to be able to insert a new variable above or below a highlighted variable, instead of having the new variable always go to the bottom of the list. This is very problematic when needing to add a new variable to the top of the list when...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Enable Compression for recalculated Analyses up to "Now"

Analysis Recalculation produces Out of Order Events, which means they are not compressed. The reason for this behavior is, that there is a more recent snapshot value existing. This also happens, when Recalculation is performed till "Now" (*), beca...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 6 No status