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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Skip Numbers in Digital State / Digital Set

There are other similar ideas out there on this site but I would like to see the ability to skip numbers in the Digital States Enumeration. We have areas of the plant that have states which don't map well to a 1,2,3.... set of states. Some are bit...
matthew.bauder about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Update description of existing elements and analysis when template description is updated

When a element or analysis template description is changed, descriptions of existing elements or analyses are not updated. The description is only updated when the element or analysis is created. A customer has proposed the following options: I...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Further development of PI AF scripting functions

In many UseCases we need more programability functions in PI. As example loop functions. We like the AF Framework, beacuse if you search in case of a problem you are very fast. But the functionaclity is unfortunatly not very rich. Please integrat...
photi24 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Export Analysis Search

In the management tab of PSE, allow the option to export the defined analysis searches. When a user receives a new computer, all of the defined searches have to be recreated.When this spans development, quality assurance and production environment...
Tim Carmichael over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Dedicate/reserve threads for PI server management.

In the event of all the threads being consumed on a PI server a PI admin is unable to manage a PI server remotely. They must remote into the server and manage it from there. However, even from the server there are times where simple tasks like ope...
GaryYegiazaryan 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Update a Subset of Event Frames' Security Without Changing "Modified Date"

Currently, there is not a way to update a subset of Event Frames' security in bulk, without changing the Event Frame's "Modified Date." For example, to add a new AF Identity with "read" permissions to a subset of Event Frames. Some customers use d...
Amber Athon 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Add Kerberos Authentication for PI Asset Analytics

Currently, PI Asset Analytics utilizes NTLM authentication. My customer's MSFT Windows Ops team does not recommend using NTLM and by default have this deactivated. Request is to add support for Kerberos authentication for PI Asset Analytics as ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Add filtering and rolling log system to AFGetTrace

When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status