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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    AF/Analysis Number Base Conversion Functions

    There are no number base conversion functions available in AF Analysis. There are many situations where I need to convert numbers between different 'number bases'. I frequently work with MODBUS devices and there are many times number base conversi...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 No status

    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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 No status

    Provide the ability to have attribute template that can be used in multiple element templates (attribute sets)

    As an user I want to be able to configure attribute templates that can be used in multiple element templates, so that I can used common attributes between different templates. For example, create three templates representing 3 different kinds of m...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

    Limit element creation using reference types

    I’m designing an AF database where we want most things to be correctly set up and planned on the template side, so that end-users can create the AF content later. One of the functionalities I use is creating my own reference types i PI System Expl...
    Asle Frantzen about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Possibility to disable the message "An AFEnumerationSet matching the digital state set for PI Point was not found" in PI System Explorer

    I would like to have the option to disable the feature introduced in PI System Explorer 2018 SP2 to pop up the following message when an Enumeration set does not match the name of a digital set in the PI Data Archive: "An AFEnumerationSet matching...
    Jose Sanchez Colunga about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status

    Allow AF to use any PI Point metadata (descriptor, UoM, Compression, etc.) as Attributes.

    Some metadata can be used in Analyses, which is helpful, but means constantly running an analysis on static data in order to use it at all in AF, which is inefficient, and we have been told to pull in data as a linked table into AF, which seems un...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

    Rename overwritten archive files with new start time when using Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure

    When using the Tuning Parameter, "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure", the system uses the oldest registered archive as the new primary. But it keeps the name of the old archive. It would be very helpful if the archive subsystem could rename ...
    kliffhopson 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Do not require permission to PIPOINT if the permission is already covered by Point Security or Data Security

    https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/permissions-required-for-tasks.html According to the documentation linked above, when permission to Point Security or Data Security is required, the same permission to PIPOINT is also required. This i...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

    Add relevant windows service dependency via installer.

    Following KB01345 & 000036461 we have to manually add dependency where applicable. Please consider adding similar service dependency than we have via PI ICU for new interface (depend on pibufss): - AFService depend on relevant MSSQL$ service ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 No status

    As an administrator, I would like to be able to backfill data that crosses over a versioning event

    Use case: 1. An element has an attribute that looks up information on equipment configuration (ex: a pump rate) 2.  Due to an equipment change, the lookup table and the element were increased in version 3. A backfill needed to be performed o...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status