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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Custom time formats for specific notifications

Customer would like a specific Notification to use a 24 hour time format, while all other Notifications use the 12 hour time format. For Example: Notifications A sends out emails in a 24 hour time format. All other notifications sends out emails ...
Nico Cha over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 1 Declined

Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

Normalized view of the Database Security Table

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

PSD to report on SQL Server install

I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Tuning parameters or PI setting that could be enabled to prevent duplicate data

Tuning parameters or PI setting that could be enabled to prevent duplicate data(tag, timestamp, value the same) from being inserted into PI.  Would be a global setting that could be applied at the archive level to prevent all interface types ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

See latest use (Date/Time) of a configured trust (or MDB Interfaces entry) within PI SMT

Every time a PI Database is restarted the interfaces and connections will reestablish their connection to the PI Database fresh restarted PI Database. This is an opportunity to write the last used (last seen) time stamp for the configured PI Trust...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

AF Table Link via Web REST Query or SharePoint List

Having the ability to query cloud-based data, web data, or SharePoint data would further leverage the ability to bring in various data sources. Having the ability to do a web call would allow us to connect to so many more data sources. Sharepoin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined