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 a function to calculate the week number of the year

In order to calculate the current shift operating at a plant, I need to calculate where in the 28-day cycle the current week is. Knowing which week of the year it is allows me to do that. Note that current PI weekday functions always count Sunday ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 Declined

Allow default value for rollup analysis

Allow a default value to be specified for rollup analysis. This value would be used when the rollup cannot find any matching attributes, thereby eliminating a lot of rollup analysis errors and Calc Failed values from being written.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

It would be great to have the ability to hide the Event Frame End Time in the Notification Email When a Notification Triggers

It would be great to have the ability to hide the Event Frame End Time in the Notification Email when the notification first triggers. At this time, and End Time of 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM Central Standard Time (GMT-06:00:00) is displayed even thou...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 3 No status

Ability to use substitution parameters in attribute template names

Would like ability to use substitution parameters in attribute template names.  Using PI-SNMP for Linux file partition data. We need to know the storage index# in AF since they vary server to server.  Want to provide users doing searches...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Support string values in formula data references

Formula data references do not support string value type attributes (e.g. if stringattribute="Yes" then "X" else "Y"). One workaround is to create an analysis on the element template with the same logic mapped to an attribute on the element templa...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 Declined

Provide more granular configuration for default ACLs

As a PI Administrator of a PI System with complex security requirements, I need to set up different default permissions for various users so they can create tags that automatically have the proper security instead of having to rely on a process/pr...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Allow BadVal to check multiple inputs or IFERROR

Right now BadVal can only check one variable or Expression.  So if I am evaluating an expression with say 10 inputs, and I want the expression to output NoOutput() if any one of the 10 inputs are BadVal, then I have 2 options right now. ...
taterhead247 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 No status

Reason Code value to AF element attribute or PI Tag

As a PI system user, I need the ability to use reason codes to develop reports and dashboards. The current functionality of PI Vision symbols and analytics do not really enable the use of the current data type of EF attribute. The ability to map ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Ability to change the timezone used in PI System Explorer with a feature similar to what is found in PI DataLink or PI SMT 2017.

As an end user, I would like to be able to change the timezone referenced in PI System Exporer from client timezone to server timezone. Something similar to the "PI Data Archive Time Zone"  setting found in PI DataLink would be helpful.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status