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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Provide a tool (in PSE?) to assist management of analytics scheduling offsets

We recommend customers use offsets to distribute scheduled calculations across time but there is not a good way manage this.Propose some utility to list a group of all scheduled analyses by same period, users supply X number of offsets and then th...
Brian Deslatte about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Include filtering logic in asset analytics

In Asset Analytics, there isn't a way to include a filtering function in a single analytic. For example, you may be calculating run hours on a motor, but there is no way to filter the calculation so that it is only done when the motor is running.
Laurie Dieffenbach about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Provide visual indication of attributes that are used as calculation inputs or outputs

it would be useful if there were a way to easily identify which attributes represent inputs to an analytic versus those which represent outputs.
Laurie Dieffenbach about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Parametrize the "True for x minutes" parameter in event frame analysis

It would be nice if we could reference an attribute or analysis variable to provide the value for the "True for 'x' minutes" parameter, rather than having to hard-code this value. This would be especially helpful in cases where we have numerous el...
Gregory Malek 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 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

PI Point User Settings in AF Client

The Suggested PI Point Name configuration item in the AF Client should be able to be set on a AF Server basis instead of a User basis, at least as the initial default. There are default parameters we need to enforce from an enterprise/site level b...
Matt Voll over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 No status