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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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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Use PI SQL Client OLEDB for PI Builder data imports

PI Builder has a few problems: It is specific to Excel. It does not store data in tables. Imported data is static and can become outdated easily, which can lead to frequent imports, the need to publish PI Builder edits soon after import, and the r...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 Declined

Give a more specific error message when publishing a span of 0

Currently, if you try to create/edit a PI Point to have a span of 0, an error message similar to the one below appears: Error occurred on line #, column #, while processing PI Data Archive 'PIDataArchive': [-38] Illegal Compression Deviation Speci...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

Provide drop down list of enumeration values in PI Builder

When an attribute column is added in PI Builder where you have an attribute using an Enumeration Set for it's Value Type, it would be nice to have a drop down list appear in the cells. This would allow you to choose a value out of the available op...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined

Change "PI AF Builder" to "PI Builder" in the tooltip of the Feedback button

Once upon a time, the add-in was called "PI AF Builder", but not anymore. Please edit the tooltip to reflect the current name of the add-in.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Have greater consistency between PI Builder and PI DataLink

PI Builder and PI DataLink both have Settings, About, Help, and Feedback buttons. Please consider some of the following actions to create a more consistent user experience across both add-ins: Use the same set of icons. Use a similar layout for th...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

When building AF output tags with PI Builder - can't create as Base instead of Classic

No option in PI Builder to declare point type of Base vs Classic.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

AutoFit the columns in PI Builder's "About"

In the PI Builder tab in Excel, if you click on "About", a window similar to the one in "Before AutoFit.png" will appear. There is not enough room for the full Name to show, and the Assembly Version has much more space than it needs. If we AutoFit...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Fetch multiple PI Points from one list

1) Select some rows from a column with a list of point name on Excel. 2) In PI Builder, Click on a new button (Find PI Points From List...) and then it will fetch all parameters of matching points in the server vs the list.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Extend Saved Searches feature in PI-SDK Tag Search to PI Builder

Add the ability to save search criteria defined in Find PI Point - similar to Favorites in PI SDK Tag Search dialog. Extend this to AF searches as well - saving favorites
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Have more user-friendly names for objects, columns, and column groups

The current names of objects, columns, and column groups usually use some combination of camel case, abbreviations, and no spaces, which makes them difficult to read. Nobody writes like this outside of programming, and most users of PI Builder are...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status