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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Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Enable tracing for one individual Analysis

On a highly loaded system with thousands of analysis i have one analysis that is misbehaving, missing executions but no skipped count, etc. Currently tracing enables tracing for ALL analysis creating an ocean of logging to plough through for that ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 No status

Acknowledge of Event Frames requires Reason Code / Comment / Electronic Signature

It should be possible to configure event frames to be acknowledgeable only if a comment/reason code is entered before. we have this requirement sometimes in life science industry, but i can imagine it might be also usefull in other industries (e.g...
FranzK over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 2 No status

Auditviewer App Suggestion

I want the ability to determine what PI System Configuration Changes (AF & PI Data Archive) are legitimate and approved, with the criteria of being able to focus on changes that occurred during a user defined time range. I want to minimize the...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 15 No status

Scheduled backfilling for a specific time frame on analyses

Add the capability to perform scheduled backfills for a specific time frame, for analyses created on PI System Explorer.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 9 No status

Allow nested operations in AF Asset Analytic functions for 'attribute attname'

KB00868 recommends Asset Analytics as the right job, but there are some major limitations that inhibit ease of use and deployment, specifically around operations on >1 attribute or tag simultaneously. To improve this, AF analyses functions th...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

multiple instances of analysis service

As a PI administrator I would like to be able to create multiple instances of "PI Analysis Service" windows service for these reasons: - avoid new potentially problematic analysis from affecting the ones that are operational and working correctly ...
Phillip Riesinger over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 6 No status

PI Auditviewer Usability Enhancements

From a pharma/biotech user perspective, I am finding that the PI Auditviewer application is difficult to use and conduct an investigation with over an extended time period.  I believe the application needs an overhaul to allow for, at minimum...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Set name of Event Frame on close (or by the value of an EF output attribute)

It would be useful if Analysis Service would set the name of the Event Frame on close rather than open. The use case is customer wants to dynamically set the name by a value of an EF attribute (possibly an EF output attribute) - for example, if a...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Allow EventFrame("Duration") to be used as an EndTrigger

I want to stop my Event Frame after an amount of time that is stored in an AF Attribute. For my use case, the amount of time from the beginning of an Event Fame is an end triggering condition. One way to do this, would be to allow the EventFrame("...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status