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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Native configuration promotion from test to production servers

As a PI Administrator with a test PI Server, I need to be able to easily promote configurations from our test environment to our production environment. Currently this is extremely difficult and a very manual process.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 No status

Export/Import Contact Groups and/or Delivery Endpoints to XML from PI System Explorer

Please allow one to export, and import, to XML from PI System Explorer Contact Groups and/or Contact Delivery Endpoints.  Doing this with AFExport.exe and AFImport.exe on the AF Server is cumbersome and restrictive.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Add filters support to AF Summary calculations

PI-DataLink allows for filtering of aggregate calculations, for example to get the average inlet temperature of a compressor when the turbine speed is > 1000 RPM. This is not possible with AF. The KB01120 article does not work and is very mess...
Simon J. Dyson over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 6 No status

Use dynamic endpoints to subscribe AF Groups to Notification Rules.

We have several sites, and a corresponding AF Group with personnel local to each site. We would like to configure the AF Element Template for sites to send a daily notification to the corresponding group for each site. This can only be done by add...
Gregory Malek about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Validate Dynamic Endpoints config for notifications with new Attribute Data Reference Type

Dynamic endpoints with comma separated email addresses are the preferred method for addressing notification recipients. They allow all recipients to see which other recipients have received the notification. The downside is any syntax error (e.g. ...
Robert Lyon 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Make it easier to get a list of buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive

For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Force Shift warning is misleading

When force shifting an archive, the following message is displayed: "Warning: This shift will clear data from the target archive. Are you sure you want to force an archive shift on to a new archive?" When Auto Archive Creation is enabled (having...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Delay Real-Time Calculations until backfill is finished.

For recursive Analyses such as below : PrevVal(tagA,'*') + 'TagB' → output : tagA When the PI Analysis Service is down (or the node needs to be restarted), the current calculation needs to be halted until the Backfilling reaches up to the start u...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Ability to override analysis in a derived template

When i create a derived Element Template, i would like to be able to override an inherited analysis. Now i am severly limited in the re-use of templates due to this limitation. I cannot extend nor exclude functionality in a derived template if thi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 8 Declined

Analysis - Default Backfill configuration for service startup

When a failover occur or at service startup, ALL analysis configured for backfilling executes based on the last configured backfill/recalculate timerange. There is an urgent need for a DEFAULT per-analysis configuration in case of service startu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Tell us more