AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Fix for KI: EventFrame Extended property not removed after EF is closed

The first EFs created by the PI Analysis Service after a restart can have the Extended Property StatusInAnalysisService stuck in Reconciling even after the event frame has been closed. There is a workaround to fix the issue when it occurs (see Eve...
Guest 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 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 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Do not require permission to PIPOINT if the permission is already covered by Point Security or Data Security

https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/permissions-required-for-tasks.html According to the documentation linked above, when permission to Point Security or Data Security is required, the same permission to PIPOINT is also required. This i...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Buffering Manager should have tuning parameter for Points with Post Errors

Right now there is a PerfMon counter for Buffer Health.  It's either 0, 1, or 2.  That's not helpful because it doesn't tell you what is wrong.  There are other PerfMon counters for Remaining Queue capacity and Points with Post Erro...
taterhead247 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 Tell us more

AF Transformer logging improvements

Improve AF Transformer logging: In some cases it's hard to investigate why AF Transformer doesn't include certain elements in transformation. it would be helpful to have a debug level that enables following features: - log element names that were ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 Declined

Allow passing parameters to XML script file so that I can maintain one general script for many sites

Below in the examples are the parameters that would change from site to site.  Other than these parameters the transformation XML script is identical across sites.  With parameters, it would be simpler to maintain these files. • Host, D...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined

Analysis need to be able to query Event Frames

the ability to rollup or sum event frame data for a month would be great!
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined

Conditional Analytics within event frame templates

As a PI Admin, I'd like to be able to calculate conditional based analytics within my event frames rather than in an outside calculation that you need to reference within the event frame. This causes timing issues when trying to schedule that calc...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Provide function to allow users to get n-th event before/after a certain time

Provide the functionality in AF analytics to get the nth event of an attribute before/after a certain point in time where n is a variable. In cases where n is small or fixed we can use the PrevEvent() or NextEvent() functions n times to do this, ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined