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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    Separate commonly used PI Interfaces that do not have a successor into read-only and write-only versions

    Currently, it is recommended to use the read-only version of a PI Interface if only reading is required, and to have separate read and write instances of the read-write version of a PI Interface if writing is required. (Reference: https://docs.osi...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

    OPC AE: add history recovery feature

    There is a stronger market demand to have more alarm data in PI so that the alarms can be analysed together with the process data. Existing (as of Oct 2019) PI OPC AE Interface does not support history recovery. Without the history recovery featur...
    AM(CSL) over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    Option to disable DataLink automatic grouping

    As a creator of DataLink spreadsheets, I would like to have the option to disable DataLink automatic grouping so that I can apply an input to one function (ex. filter expression, conversion factor, etc.) without it being applied to the entire grou...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

    Batch interfaces keeping merged child operation EventFrames open until the parent Operation EventFrame has been closed.

    Currently for batch interfaces using the /MUP parameter, child operation event frames might be reopened and closed multiple times until the last operation event frame closes and the child event frame is closed for good. For example with UnitProced...
    Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Allow OMF Health Authentication on PI Interfaces to Negotiate

    Currently the OMF Health feature of PI interfaces only allows the interface to connect to the PI Web API OMF endpoint using Basic authentication. It would be good to see negotiate and windows authentication as an option like PI Adapters have to co...
    Brian Rock 5 months ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

    Enhance pitopi.ini sections to include point source to make them unique

    The pitopi.ini file is used by the pitopi interface for collecting data from multiple sources and to save other miscellaneous settings such as 'histonly' flags. The configuration ini file uses sections to separate settings between instances with a...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

    PItoPI should give indication when it is stuck querying a corrupt source archive

    Currently, PItoPI interface can get "stuck" if it is querying a source data archive that is corrupt with no indication that this is what's happening.  It appears to be sending data to the destination server, but no data is received.  It ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 1 No status

    Support Analysis Backfill of Source Tag

    Many of our source tags sending data to a central Data Archive are populated with data from analyses on the source AF Server. This creates two problems when we perform a backfill that recalculates data over a specified timespan for the source tag:...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 0 No status

    PI EFGen 4.1+ has limited recovery capabilities

    Up to PI EFGen 4.0, we were able to backfill OOO Event Frames by simply inputting the start and end time of the corresponding period. Since 4.1, this must be done in a per-event basis, since larger time ranges are modified so that RST matches the ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 No status

    DeltaV Smart Connector configurability

    Smart Connector foo DeltaV should let user configure some default attributes for tags created: - User should be able to define what the default point security should be - User should be able to decide if tags should be created as Poll or Advise
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status