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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Allow access of PI Server/AF Server time zone via PI Web API

Posted on behalf of customer: We are currently using the PI Web API 2021 SP1, version 1.15.0.162. We're using it to develop a proprietary C++ software. One of our customers has PI Servers all over the world and wants to see the time stamps in the...
Ryan Biggins about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Support VHS point History recovery for PI Connector for Cygnet

VHS points in Cygnet contain historical data. On startup, disconnection and at will, the connector should should attempt to recover history.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for CygNet 0 No status

Suppress the creation of "Status Flag" PI Points

The end-user would like to suppress the creation of the "Status Flag" PI Points, as they wish to keep their point count to a minimum due to the license-enforced point limit.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Program objects (BACnet object type 16) also bought through by the connector

The program object description is often very useful to understand what the various object instances relate to. At our site the description holds the Asset designation and that would allow correct assignment of the analogue and binary object instan...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Validate credentials before running connector

Need a way to easily confirm that the credentials are correct before I try and run the connector.  Would like to see any errors surfaced via the web page so I can troubleshoot.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status

The PI Connector for Wonderware Historian should have the option to enable/disable Compression when creating PI Tags.

As a PI System Admin, I would like to specify whether PI Tags created by the PI Connector for Wonderware Historian should have Compression enabled/disabled before being created by connector in order to reduce configuration time. Currently, tags ne...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status