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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Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Conditional Analytics within event frame templates

As a PI Admin, I'd like to be able to calculate conditional based analytics within my event frames rather than in an outside calculation that you need to reference within the event frame. This causes timing issues when trying to schedule that calc...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Analyses Rollup should support Range and more functions

I want the Rollup to use the Range or Delta function.
Hobbe about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Poly function should allow number attributes as coefficients

The current Poly function does not support attributes as coefficients, so we need to revert back to using Pow. This makes the Poly function of little additional benefit. We need to be able to use any numeric attribute as input for the Poly coeffi...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Under the "Event Frame Search" option, give users more options for triggering on Attribute Values

When setting a notification's trigger criteria and specifying the "Event Frame Search" option, give the user more options for triggering on Attribute Values. Current options: Equal, Not Equal Suggestions: Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than Or...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 2 No status

Notifications Time Zone Format

In Notifications 2016 R2, when configuring a custom Date format (via the TimeFormat attribute in the AF Configuration database), I would like an option to have the time zone display as EDT, PST, etc. The only option is to show it as a +/- offset f...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Allow PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) to be managed by Powershell tools for the PI System

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

several Instances for PI Relay

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...
juergen.b.schmidt about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Data Collection Manager User management

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...
juergen.b.schmidt about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status