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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Automatic re-connection to AF database after network interruption

Avoid having to manually reconnect to the AF database in PSE whenever a client computer returns from standby after the network connection has returned. Other PI client tools such as SMT are able to automatically re-establish connection under these...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

XML Export/Import to Support Object Deletion

XML Export/Import supports modifying and renaming of objects (the latter when the Preserve ID option is selected). It would be useful if this could be extended to support deletion of objects, e.g. deleting an Element, Template, Analysis etc that e...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Change UoM, Display Digits of attribute independently of element template

Currently, if an attribute is created with a Unit of Measurement in an element template, it is not possible to change the Unit of Measurement in the element created from that template. If no UoM is given in the template, then the UoM of the under...
Christoph Rose about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Provide Alarm management function

I would like to monitor and manage alerts & events gathered from PI Interface for OPC AE to create a report like Top 10 alarms, Floating Alarm, Operator Alarm, because by default PI System will collect AE as a string and stored it. Should we h...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

PI System Explorer > Preview Results: trends should allow for Inputs/Outputs to be selected/deselected

It can be difficult to clearly see the input/output trends in the prevew when trying to perform debugging. Specifically it would be useful to isolate the mapped output(s) to see if the analytic it producing the expected results. The table is usefu...
Mike Horrocks 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Increase assembly description character limit for AF Plugins

Currently when inserting an AF plugin via RegPlugin64.exe , there is a 1000 character hard limit for the AssemblyDescription parameter that the AF plugin has in its AssemblyInfo.cs class. It has been found that some plugins have more than 1000 cha...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add Check In / Check Out button to PI Builder

It would be useful to add a Check In and Check Out button to PI Builder. So if any undesired change is made, it can be undone.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Link to user manual/ help file unavailable from UI

The connector UI does not contain any link to the help documentation or the user manual. The files are also not found in the standard PIPC path and are available only with the installation extarction
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Re-instate the default tags and random/ramp soak interfaces

These were removed from the 2018 SP3 install kit as OSI found many customers removed these tags and interfaces after installation. However, our experience is the opposite and these tags are massively useful for diagnostic, experimental and trainin...
Alistair about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

As a PI Administrator, we should be able to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user in PI message logs.

Through PI message logs I want to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user, currently only the PI identity associated the windows AD is visible in the Logs. PI mapping information will give us more idea/facts about the particular Window...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status