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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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Association of Multiple Tags That Represent Same Measurement

As a PI admin, I would like to associate mutiple tags together that represent the same measurement at different time periods SO THAT users see one set of data together instead of the old data in the old tag and the new data in the new tag after DC...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Show the AF SQL hostname server in SMT

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI SMT: some plugins missing features for future data

Certain plugins in PI SMT do not have features to support future data 1. Snapshot and Archive Statistics (is available only through piartool) 2. Current Data does not subscribe to timeseries in Update Manager 3. Stale and Bad tags
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store PI Data Archive information in an SQL Server database

Most of the PI Data Archive information that is accessible from PI System Management tools is perfect for a relational database: PI Identities, PI Mappings, PI Point attributes, PI Message Logs, etc. Moving all of this to an SQL Server database w...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Increasing the dynamic range of compressed data

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Link tuning parameters to the UOM database

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Being able to activate the Log of abnormally long request made to the PI Data Archive

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...
jerome.boudon over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

New attribute for a PI point type ID

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i cou...
Hobbe over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Tell us more

Store multiple events at the same timestamp

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status