AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Option to paste column names to AF table definition

Option to Paste column names in table definition. In the moment everything has to be put manually. Also sorting is painful. If we could just copy an array/list from Excel and paste here it would make the handling a lot easier. (Copying the table d...
PhilippEven about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add IsExcluded('attribute') function to AF Analysis.

Add new isexcluded(attribute_reference) function to be able to easier distinguish between Tag/Attribute errors and excluded attributes. Currently it is quite tricky to filter if an attribute is in error due to data source error or an excluded tag....
PhilippEven about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

if then else in Analysis still checking/executing both parts

If then else clauses are often used for input filtering for our analysis in AF. We often face the issue that analysis cause errors although the part which should not be executed according to the condition is causing errors.Example: "if BadVal('att...
PhilippEven about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Change default setting for new analysis templates enabling from True to False

When an analysis template is added or new analysis are created with PI Builder the default option is to "enable analyses when created from template" = True. This should be changed to false with an opt-in for automatic enabling. Users easily forget...
PhilippEven about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve performance of creating large numbers of new tags

I have three large customers who have experienced PI Data Archive performance issues when large numbers of tags are being created. Specifically, record locks seem to take an extra large time (e.g., more than 15 minutes) to clear, and data updates ...
Laurie Dieffenbach about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Allow Federation of ClientIDs and tokens from Entra ID into AVEVA Identity Manager

For clients who previously relied on claims authentication with PI Web API, it would be useful to be able to reproduce a similar authentication flow with bearer authentication and the AVEVA Identity Manager in PI Server 2023. Currently, federation...
Housnat Aboubacar about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No status

PI SMT's Current Values plug-in should have an option to not display comma separators for large numbers.

PI System Management Tools currently displays comma separators for large numbers. For example: 1,000,000. As a PI admin/user, it would be beneficial if there was an option to remove these commas.
Bethany Jewett about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Effective Access tab in PSE should show Owner Identity

This enhancement would be resolving a rare problem, as the Owner Identity is not granted rights to any Items in AF by default. It would be due to the security scheme configured in AF, which the responsible AF Administrator should be aware of. The ...
Guest 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add the option to set the Event Frame output to be the value of a string attribute with the longest time-span over the Event Frame Duration.

I have an Event Frame string attribute that changes its value over the duration of the Event Frame. I'd like to have the option to set the Event Frame output to be the value of the string attribute with the longest time-span over the Event Frame D...
David Tayler 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Tool to check if a PI Point is used in PI AF Analysis

I would like to suggest a tool (a native function or utility) to check whether there are calculations in PI AF that reference PI points. I should notice that is even for the situation that I don't know whether this PI point is an input or output o...
Gustavo Martins 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status