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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Add ‘No Replace’ mode to UFL Connector

Currently the only PI Data Archive ‘Store Mode’ options are ‘Insert’ and ‘Update’. I’m currently working on a project where a large quantity of data needs to be downloaded daily from the internet using the REST client node. To reduce chances of da...
Mic Paluszak about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

Can we have a version of the UFL Connector that is compatible with the Data Collection Manager and the Relay?

Can we have a version of the UFL Connector that is compatible with the Data Collection Manager and the Relay? Use case would be to allow the DCM to be the one-stop shop for all connectors and would make things easier to configure and manage the ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

Configure target PI/AF/DB at datasource level

Actually the UFL Connector sends data to all of the listed PI Data Archives and AF Servers in the server list configured in administration page, so it's not possible to send different data to different PI DA or AF databases with a single UFL Conne...
Carlo Pedroli about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

PI integrated with Project Haystack tag standard. See www.project-haystack.org for more information.

It would be very helpful if PI integrated the PI Connector with the Project Haystack tag standard. See www.project-haystack.org for more information. Project Haystack is an open source initiative to streamline working with data from the Internet ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / New PI Connector Request 0 No status

PI System connector creates additional data on start up

When PI System connector is stopped and started (as a service or in UI), duplicate event is received and archived by the target PI Data Archive. The write mode for the PI Connector Relay is append, in this case history recovery will include/send t...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 Declined

Mass create data source list for PI Connector

For the PI Connector for EtherNet IP you can have up to 100 data sources. Typing in all of them is tedious. It would be nice if we could copy/paste information from Excel OR have a structured import/export file to the data source list.
Dan.Louchbaum about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 1 No status

PI Connector for Ethernet IP should retrieve tagnames from the PLC array

The AF Hierarchy that is created by the connector does not take into consideration any of the tagnames within the PLC array, it just creates attributes for them as slot.n where “n” is a number corresponding to the array position. Not only is this ...
Allison Muraski about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Allow PI System connector to actively rectify streams if point type changes are made during runtime

Point changes on the source currently necessitate a restart of PI System Connector to rectify the streams. Allow the tau framework to handle these changes at runtime without restarting the connector. Currently, if the point type changes are made ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Enable child Event Frames for Alarms and Conditions from PI Connector for Siemens Simatic PCS 7

Would like to see states of alarms captured as child Event Frames of the parent alarm Event Frame that is currently created. Today this data is only captured in tags.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status

Collect units of measure and description from Siemens Simatic PCS 7

Support collecting units and description from the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 system and writing them to the AF attribute and the PI Point attributes.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 Declined