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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski 8 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Update a Subset of Event Frames' Security Without Changing "Modified Date"

Currently, there is not a way to update a subset of Event Frames' security in bulk, without changing the Event Frame's "Modified Date." For example, to add a new AF Identity with "read" permissions to a subset of Event Frames. Some customers use d...
Amber Athon 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 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

Analysis service should not close opened EF when last evaluation time is exceeds MaximumAllowedAutoBackfillingSpanInHours

As PI server administrator I would like that when the Analysis service is restarted with autobackfilling enabled, if there are any EF analysis where last evaluation time is older than *-MaximumAllowedAutoBackfillingSpanInHours, EFs that are opened...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status