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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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Analytics Service Utilization

The current 'Analysis Service Statistics' explain quantitatively "what is happening", but do not quantify the available capacity of the analytics engine. Managing a large and busy AF Server involves far too much guesswork as to how much additional...
Steven.Taylor over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

ENable analysis scheduling with different timezone (and also DST)

it will be useful to schedule an analysis with a specific Time Zone in order to be aligned with the local time and, especially, with the local setting for DST.
ValterFostini over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Use Excel tables to contain PI Builder data

PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework. Benefits of PI Builder using tables: • filters ar...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Notification Reporting

With the arrival of AF 2016R2 notifications changed considerably. One of the features "lost" is reporting on notification delivery. You now simply get an annotation that x number of subscribers where notified. I would like this to be improved to...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 3 No status

Allow Notification rules to return an EF attribute value belonging to a different event frame in AF

I have a scenario where I would like that a certain Notification Rule, set for an Event Frame analysis (EF1), allows to return the value of an EF attribute belonging to a different Event Frame (EF2). On this scenario, the EF2 is triggered and fin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 3 No status

Possibility to change units of template based attributes

I have template based elements including analysis that can be used for calculations with a variety of units (tonnes, MWh,...). So it would be great to have the possibility to change the units of template based attributes. At the moment they are fi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

Add feature to AF Table to quickly pull up all Attribute Table Lookup references to that table

Just like how you can pull up all the Derived Elements for a element template, it would be very beneficial to see all the attributes with Table Lookup references to a particular table. See proposed addition to the General Tab of an AF Table.
Andre Perez 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Officially test compatibility with Windows Security Baselines

As a PI System administrator, I need to harden the OS of my servers consistent with industry best practices so that they are resilient to attack and random disruption. Official testing of compatibility with industry standards such as the Windows ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

User-defined functions

Allow arguments/parameters to be passed to variable definitions, effectively creating user-defined functions. For example, suppose that I want to define the function TagSum, which adds the values at all events in a time range. Then: TagSum(tag, s...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status