AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Provide "Point Last Accessed" information to determine clients' use of PI Points

It would be useful to be able to determine when (or even if) a PI Point was last accessed by a client application to retrieve its data.  This would enable redundant points to be identified and removed. Alternatively/additionally some form of acce...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No Status

New attribute trait: PI Tag Name

Since using the child attribute "PI Tag Name" to hold the actual tag name is considered best practice in AF, why not encourage it even more by making it an attribute trait? Another option would be the ability to expose the actual tag name as a pr...
Asle Frantzen almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Automatically update the ConfigString of attributes and attribute templates when renames occur

The ConfigString of attributes and attribute templates stores information such as references to PI Points, substitution parameters and formula parameters that refer to other attributes or attribute templates, and the source unit (abbreviation of t...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

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: ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No Status

AF should react better to unhandled exceptions from a linked table provider

When an OLE DB or ODBC provider returns an unhandled exception for a linked table to the PI AF Application Service , it would be better for it either handle the exception and not crash, or to log the exception, the linked table name and provider n...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No Status

Use the AUDIT filegroup for all CDC tables

When enabling auditing, the default CDC tables are created within the ASSETS filegroup in SQL, while all replication tables are created in the AUDIT filegroup. It would be good if all CDC tables were in the AUDIT filegroup so that all of the audit...
Rory BD about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 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...
Guest almost 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No Status