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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When viewing a question on its own page, expand long comments by default

Currently, from the home page, we can view questions on a separate page by clicking on the time that the question was posted. When we do this, I feel that long comments should be expanded by default. That is, we should never see the option to "Exp...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / PI Square Online Community 0 No status

Allow the SDK connection priority for the RTQP Engine to be configurable

The RTQP Engine is currently only able to connect to the Primary Data Archive to retrieve data, regardless of the SDK Priority settings. The “PreferPrimary” connection priority is hardcoded into the RTQP engine and cannot be modified. For users wh...
Derek Wong about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI SQL Client 2 No status

Tag Creation

As a developer of custom applications that use the PI  AF SDK, I'd like to be able to easily determine if an attribute based of an attribute template is configured for tag creation. Currently the AF Attribute Template class does not have this...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 0 Declined

Write annotations on archive data via PI Web API

My client is interested in writing annotations to Stream (time series) data via the PI Web API. I know it's possible to pull this data via the ?associations=annotations query parameters but the write feature is missing.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 Declined

Expose UOM Groups in PI Web API

As a programmer I want the PI Web API to expose an endpoint for reading UOM Groups and UOM Group mappings. This would allow javascript based web applications to read the UOM Groups and mappings in order to use the mappings in subsequent data strea...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

Option to show no scale on trend symbol

At the moment there is no option to disable the scale for the trend symbol. Using the trend symbol to create sparkline like trends is useful, but the scale interferes with the data, as the scale will automatically be shown inside the plot area whe...
Mike Horrocks 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 0 No status

Ability to add an auto updating table of active, recent, not acknowledged PI Notifications.

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Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Notifications 1 Declined

Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Do not require permission to PIPOINT if the permission is already covered by Point Security or Data Security

https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/permissions-required-for-tasks.html According to the documentation linked above, when permission to Point Security or Data Security is required, the same permission to PIPOINT is also required. This i...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

trend log objects (BACnet object type 20) available from the connector

BACnet trendlog object present the opportunity to buffer at the edge where the data is collected and to gracefully recover from comms outages if data collection has been impacted. I would suspect the trendlog object could be handled similarly to ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status