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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

Include the "Primary Parent" checkbox functionality under PSE's "Change Reference Type" dialog in PI Builder

In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Purge EFs using AFDIAG and more search criterias'

You should be able to urge EFs using more complex search criterias' than the ones provide in the latest PI Server 2018 SP3 (StartTime, EndTIme, EF Template). Most important criteria would be EF categories, but also some honorable mentions: 1. EF ...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 4 No status

Allow nameless arrays in Notifications JSON

Currently, when configuring JSON as the body of a Notification, an array of items has to have a property name--there isn't a way to construct an array of JSON objects where the array isn't prefixed with "name": or some other property name. There a...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Support "category" for the name substitution parameter in AF template

Use category of an attribute for the name substitution parameter of the PI point data reference
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

AF "instrumenttag property request

Users would like to be able to pull in the instrumenttag of a PI point into an attribute that is referencing it.  This isn't currently possible because the AF server and any attribute aren’t aware of most properties of the PI point itself, so...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

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 4 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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

AF enumeration sets should support values with the same name

The feature introduced in 2018 SP2 to manually synchronize digital state sets with AF enumeration sets has a limitation where state sets with duplicated names aren't imported correctly into AF. This is due to the current design of AF enumeration s...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add an option in Attribute Search to view excluded attributes in AF or PI Builder

Add an option in Attribute Search to view excluded attributes in AF or PI Builder. It is not possible to see excluded attributes when making an attribute search in the current version of PI AF Client and PI Builder
Emre Kayaalp about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status