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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Allow specifying Primary attribute category

Allow specifying primary attribute category in AF and allow to use following options in the "Group by -  Category" menu in PI System Explorer: - show attributes in all categories - show attributes in primary category only (hide duplicate attr...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Have an option in AF Security to not pass down database security to newly created objects

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Hide Certain PI Point Attributes from Users

Implement a way to hide the contents of a PI point attribute, specifically the Instrumenttag attribute. With many PI interfaces, the InstrumentTag attribute will store the IP address of the source, and we (as well as many other utilities) have a r...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

PI ProcessBook Support Tool: allow for PI Server values to be replaced for a subset of tags

The PI ProcessBook Support Tool allows for tags to be replaced and for PI Data Archive values to be replaced in ProcessBook displays using the Data Item Find and Replace. However, it does not allow you translate tags across PI Data Archives. For i...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined

Provide more user-friendly way to configure backups

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store thread history along with connection history in the server

Storing the thread history(pibasess/piarchss etc) along with the connection history will help to better understand and troubleshoot issues on the archive and will serve as a kind of auditing on the behavior of connections.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI collective with shared archives

Allow the Primary Data Archive server read-write access to any shared archives. All Secondary data archive servers would have read-only access. This would fix case Case # 925881. We have tags with old timestamps, for example, environmental limits,...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better tracking

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better system evaluation.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Recover data from current time moving backwards

Recover data from the current time back rather than start of a data gap to now (current time). The most important thing is to get current data immediately.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined

Implement default calculations existing in EXCEL.

Implement all the default calculations existing in EXCEL. We need to calculate the IRR (internal rate of return) for every technology: Inside the PI Analysis is not already available the function to calculate the IRR (like for the vb.net, Excel, ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined