AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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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 8 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 12 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 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 over 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Method to backup and restore PI Points only

The PI backup tools currently do not have a method to backup only the files related to PI Points. The purpose of this would be to refresh the point table on a QA system from a production system. The current PI backup method is all or nothing.
GaryYegiazaryan over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Negative numbers in digitalsets

Negative numbers in digitalsets for all PI interface and skip numbers, basically that the digitalset is like the enum of AF
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Logic for SQC calculations

I would like the ability to flag an SQC event only if I am in a batch, on a grade run, or in some other process condition. Right now, I am getting an SQC outside control limit when my phase is "inactive." Let there be more configuration of this in...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Allow the use of substitution variables in Analytics

Substitution variables are only supported in datareferences. I want to use these directly in Analytics expressions. Now i need to create a attribute to resolve the substitution variable (formula, stringbuilder, etc.), and use that in my analysis....
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Have PI Analysis Service Automatically Update the Definition of Existing Digital States

If an existing digital state is edited, PI Analysis Service does not recognize the change until it is restarted. A digital state should not be edited too often. However, it would be useful if there is a process to update cache, including each digi...
Toshiro Chiba over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status