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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PI System Connector: Allow subset of event frames to be replicated

Currently you only have the ability to replicate ALL event frames and only if you want to replicate the entire AF database. We have one main AF database with many different types of event frames; however we do not want to replicate them all. It wo...
Rebekah_Wilson 10 months ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 No status

Enable setting tag attributes in the PI Connector for OPC UA (gen1 and gen2)

The PI Connector for OPC UA (gen1 and gen2) should have ways to set tag attributes. There should be way to automatically set the PI point attributes like point and data security.
Paul Kim about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Support string data types for PI Connector for EtherNet/IP

String data, such as serial numbers, are supported by the EtherNet/IP protocol and are often collected to help understand what was being made by a piece of equipment at any given time.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Enhance the PI Connector for Cygnet Back Fill Utility to use select PI Points

Currently the back filling utility for the PI Connector for Cygent only permits back filling an entire data source. Sometimes it is desirable to back fill certain points, or a subset of a data source, that has missing data or gaps that need to be ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for CygNet 0 No status

Connector provides Timestamps

The EtherNet/IP protocol does not specify timestamps when data is transmitted, the connector currently assigns the timestamps base on when the data is being processed. This leads to the following issue, if the network/computer/etc gets busy, we w...
Allison Muraski over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Log device information when the Connector receives errors from a device

Currently the Connector logs when it receives errors, but does not print information that can be used to determine which device is reporting the errors. We currently need to perform a wireshark trace to look at the individual packets to determine...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Distribute-Broadcast-To-Network broadcast for Discovery Tool and Connector

When running the discovery tool from a subnet with no BBMD to query BACnet devices on a separate subnet, it seems like the auto discovery tool is seen as a ‘foreign device’, so the devices do not respond correctly. When analyzing a Wireshark trac...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Wonderware Historian Connector Should store description in an AF attribute

Wonderware Historian Connector should store description in an AF attribute. It has the description in hand as it is written to the PI tag descriptor
Brian Deslatte over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status

Support filtering by element template or attribute

Currently we can "filter" what is replicated by including a specific branch. But if using a composite model, say a site with all it's composite assets, and only want to replicate the "foo" assets from all sites, this option does not work. It is p...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Prioritize current data over historical backfill

Especially when requesting a large amount of historical data from PI System Connector, I would like the Connector to prioritize the current data from the data source while processing the historical data at a lower priority in the background.
Allison Muraski over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status