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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Support for Entry of an Coresight Adhoc Display Link in a Notification Email

(AF 2016 R2, Notifications 2016 R2) I would like to have support to include a link to an Coresight ad-hoc trend for a specific attribute into an email. I have attempted to use the Insert Link option under Message formats in the following way: Ent...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 Declined

Notifications Time Zone Format

In Notifications 2016 R2, when configuring a custom Date format (via the TimeFormat attribute in the AF Configuration database), I would like an option to have the time zone display as EDT, PST, etc. The only option is to show it as a +/- offset f...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Allow PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) to be managed by Powershell tools for the PI System

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

several Instances for PI Relay

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Data Collection Manager User management

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Ability to use templates from a different database

On the AF server we have things structured in different databases. When working in a database it would be great if I could use a database template (e.g. element template) from a different database. In some cases these templates are valid for both ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Harmonize Attribute Editor and Attribute Template Editor

Currently Attribute Template Editor and Attribute Editor behave different regarding visualisation of templates when using derived templates. Attribute Template Editor shows the attributes of the base template only if Group By Template is checked....
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

PI AF High Availability Collective

PI AF HA that is read/write, for PI Analysis and PI Notifications also.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Substitution Parameters for PI Point Exdesc

I would like to have an out of the box way for an attribute to display a pipoint exdesc. One thought would be able to have a substitution parameter that would point at the pipoints exdesc.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to manage non-impersonated linked tables without PI AF Server Admin privilegies

PI AF Admin would like grant permissions for users that are not level server admins to create and edit non-impersonated linked tables. Currently this only allowed for AF server admins or using impersonated linked tables. User guide: https://liv...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 3 No status