AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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User-defined functions

Allow arguments/parameters to be passed to variable definitions, effectively creating user-defined functions. For example, suppose that I want to define the function TagSum, which adds the values at all events in a time range. Then: TagSum(tag, s...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications (newer versions)

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/3778-custom-delivery-channels-in-pi-notifications-newer-versions Customer would like to have the Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications 2012 upgraded to the newer versions...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 Declined

Totalizer that resets to 0 with Asset based Analytics

I need to calculate a running sum (totalizer) of a PI Point and reset it to 0 at the beginning of each month. I would like to do this with Asset based Analytics. There are workarounds to do this, but none are great. For example, one workaround inv...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

PI Tag Renaming Detection for PI Vision/PE Calculations

When input PI Tags are referenced in PI Vision 2020+ calculations, they do not automatically detect PI Tag name changes. For users with a lot of calculations, this can be extremely problematic in the event of a PI Tag name change. In the event of ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Add read perrmission to the Event Frame Template

It would be great to add read permission to the security table of EF Template. Now you can't deny read access to one specific EF Template. You can only deny access to all templates and to generated EFs, but not to specific template. This can be a...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Use %Duration% with Formula Data Reference as Best Practice for EF Duration Attribute (AF 2017 R2+)

This is a followup to discussions with Roger Palmen and Rick Davin about their excellent writeups on the topic of EF Duration attributes; see Event Frame duration - easy way in AF2.6 or higher & Duration attribute on an Event Frame - Part 1 , ...
Brent Bregenzer about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status

Allow object specific Audit Trails to be accessed by object level Administrators

Currently to view the Audit Trails of any object on an AF Server, Server level Administrator privileges are needed. There should be the ability for a user that does not have server level administrator to view the Audit Trails of a specific object...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Allow PI Collective members to be permanently represented by alias names

For example, in PI SDK, when viewing "member setup" for a PI Collective, it is desired for the names of the members to always be represented as a DNS alias or SDK alias. At the outset of PI Collective creation, in PI Collective Manager for instanc...
Ryan Biggins 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status