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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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EFGEN - Allow for null/blank values to be Zeroth State for active point

When my EFGen Active Point tags have a null value, the interface should be able to designate this as a Zeroth State.
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 4 Tell us more

Link Referenced Elements from Unitprocedure to Procedure Event

When Eventframe Batches are created by a Batch Interface, the used Unit in the plant is created as Element in AF and linked to the Unitprocedure EventFrame. Unfortunately it is not linked to the parent Procedure Event, leaving the "referenced Elem...
Jürgen Schmidt about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Option for PI Point Number Inserts instead of Tag Names - tag renames stop spreadsheets from working.

ProcessBook stores tags by their pointid. If you change the name of a tag, It will still show up in ProcessBook. We would like to have the option to store tags in Xcel by the tag number instead of the name. As an example, we are getting ready to ...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Support named ranges to avoid issue KB01369

Excel places named ranges in formulas when a cell has a named range (instead of cell references). Excel formulas become more readable this way. Datalink should support defined named ranges too. Editing a Datalink array formula directly in Excel a...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 12 No status

Enable Auto Discovery for PI Adapter for MQTT SparkplugB to always listen for Birth and Death messages

When utilizing the SparkplugB protocol for MQTT, it would be beneficial for the adapter to be always listening for birth and death messages from specific Edge of Network nodes. This way, the device can send a birth message to have itself added t...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 1 Tell us more

PI Adapter for EtherNet/IP

Develop a PI adapter to talk directly to Rockwell PLCs using EtherNet/IP without requiring an OPC UA server.
Steve Boyko about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 1 No status

OMF: Time Range / Events / Spans Support

Support the concept of time ranges / events EFs / spans as a pre-defined type in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 7 Tell us more

Redundancy for PI Connector Relay

Operating in a validated pharmaceutical industry, when making use of a comprehensive data/asset centralizing approach, we require the PI Connector Relay to be redundant or highly available. We are currently in the obligation to deploy the PI Conne...
Christian Leroux almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

Install and configure more than one PI System Connector instance per server

At local industrial sites, we deploy use cases different in nature and end user consumption in separated AF DBs, like OEE, PSM, Autoclave, utilities, etc. We need to centralize these individually into our central PI System. We need to segregate th...
Christian Leroux almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Support derived templates

When replicating AF data to CONNECT, I would like to make sure that all assets configured from templates which are themselves based on derived templates, preserve the template inheritance. For instance, if I have a Mobile Equipment template, with ...
Max McKay almost 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status