AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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PI Connectors

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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

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

Control which PI/AF servers each data source sends data to.

Right now, for one instance of the connector, all configured data sources will send data to all configured PI Data Archives and PI AF Servers. It is all or nothing. Due to the fact that you cannot have multiple instances of the same connector on a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden 19 days ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite 5 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Output tags on connectors

Sometimes we need to send data back to our sources. Connectors should support output tags
Alan Izar over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 8 Declined

Transformations and scaling

Add the ability to configure PI points so that the PI Connector for OPC UA performs transformations and scaling on the values before being archived.
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 Declined

Ability for PI Connectors to create future data point

Add the ability for PI Connectors to create future data point. This is especially useful for the PI Connector for UFL. The current workaround is to manually create the point as a StoredValues=FutureData.
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

PI System Connector with mode to synch AF Analysis and Notifications Templates

As an equipment specialist working centrally, I wish to deploy my AF Element Templates including Analysis and Notifications Templates to my remote sites so I have them managed from a central location. This also insures that remote sites are using ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined

OPC UA: allow a host name override

Allow a hostname override when connecting to the OPC UA endpoint.   We have some use cases where the URL returned by two independent OPC UA servers has the same name.  This prevents the Connector from connecting to the correct endpo...
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 6 Declined