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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.

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PI Connector for RDBMS

The PI Interface for RDBMS is one of the most used PI Interfaces. Unfortunately, the fact that it is a PI Interface makes it unnecessarily difficult to use, and turning it into a PI Connector can help alleviate this. No more Location codes, squish...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / New PI Connector Request 9 Declined

Please have PI Integrator for Business Analytics supports high availability (HA)

As a user of PI Integrator for Business Analytics, I'd like to have it support high availability (HA).
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 7 Tell us more

PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest 28 days ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Programmable limits on a Trend's traces.

Allow tags and calculations in the limits field, when setting limits for a trace. ie: For a tag, or calculation called: 'TARGET_TEMPERATURE' Allow the upper value of the trace be: 'TARGET_TEMPERATURE' + 'RANGE' Where 'RANGE' is either a real numbe...
Guest 28 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / User Experience 0 No status

Have the FTB Interface support multiple stop events for Unit Procedures

There are instances where a batch must be manipulated creating two Unit Released events in the event file. The desired behavior for the PI FactoryTalk Batch Interface would be for the second end time to overwrite the first end time when data is be...
Guest 29 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface not truncate the trailing "-#" index (e.g. UnitProcedureName-1) at the end of a Unit Procedure

Some FactoryTalk batch processes have overlapping Unit Procedures with trailing indexes. Because the trailing index is truncated it results in overlapping Unit Procedures with the same name which are then merged. The desired behavior would be for ...
Guest 29 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface capture "Active Step Change Commencing" events as event frames

Some FactoryTalk batch processes require "Active Step Change Commencing" event to be part of the batch hierarchy however the PI Interface for Factory Talk Batch starts event frames only on [EVENT] = "System Message" or "State Change".
Guest 29 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Different header/sidebar colours for prod, dev, test instances

We have 3 instances of PI Vision at my company. It helps a lot that we provide a BLUE title bar for prod, GREEN for development and YELLOW for our test environment. We achieved this by manually editing CSS files on the server. This works well. The...
Ben Nicholson 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Look & Feel / Styling 0 No status

Get data by polling

Support acquiring data by polling the OPC UA server rather than subscription.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 4 Declined

More functions to support operations on arrays

The arrays in Expression and Event Frame Generation analyses are useful, but use cases are emerging where more functions are needed to reduce/calculate the arrays in more streamlined fashion. For example, Concat function should support array of ch...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 19 No status