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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Make message logs easier to export in bulk

Tech support often asks customers for message logs in bulk. The PISDKUtility and SMT are not good for this because they run out of memory if you try to load too many messages. The only way to export the logs is to use the command line pigetmsg uti...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Delete precommit folder after backup whether backup is successful or not

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Allow access to Attribute Timestamp without using Analysis

It would be very helpfull if we could access not only attribute values but also their timestamp in formulas, string builder, etc.. For example, this would help calculate staleness of a value, or it could be used to set a PI Point Attribute to show...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Avoid naming SQL management scripts Go.bat

It is possible to name these files more specifically to convey what to expect when running them: Example 1: AF_SQL_295.bat Example 2: AF_SQL_290.bat Example 3: Vision_SQL_320.bat Currently a single name of Go.bat is assigned to SQL management scr...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Automatic PI Point Creation

It would be convenient if PI Points were automatically created when deploying an element based on an element template for the attribute templates that have Tag Creation set. The current approach is to right click > Create or Update Data Reference.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

UOM field should accept substitution parameters

It would be nice if the UOM field of an AF Attribute would accept substitution parameters. This way if an attribute is a reference to another, the UOMs could also be linked. If the UOM is updated on the source, it would also get updated in the ref...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow nested attribute references for String Builder Data References

As a PI System Admin, I would like to reference an attribute value as part of my attribute data references for a String Builder data reference. For example, suppose I have a parent asset 'Parent' with an attribute of 'XD5' and a child element 'Chi...
Roger Ward over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to move an AF element within the hierarchy in PSE by right-clicking on the element

When moving an AF element within the hierarchy in PSE using the "Shift key + Drag and Drop" approach, it can cause to create an Element reference if the release of the "Shift key" is done before dropping the element. Having the option of right-cl...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 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 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Add option to clear buffer errors to the Buffering Manager

Currently users have to use the command line tools to clear buffer point errors. It would be useful and enhance O&M if these errors could be cleared directly from the UI rather than just viewed.Bonus points for allowing users to clear all, mul...
Shawn McNabb 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status