AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Ability to store metadata information for PI data

For forecasts, probabilities are assigned to each forecast data. It would be helpful to be able to store this information (metadata) for each forecast value.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dynamic digital state sets

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, a digital tag can be used instead. However, to create this tag's digit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dictionary encoding of strings in string tags

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Allow edited default tag attributes to be used in Point Builder SMT Plugin

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Refresh button for the Interface Configuration Utility (ICU)

When doing certain changes within the ICU (like configuring buffering for an interface) the end user has to close out of the ICU and then open it back up just for the ICU to refresh and reference change within higher versions of the ICU that have ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Tag Name Search Count recorded in PI Tag

Could the feature of counting the number of pi tags (by prefix) and display it in PI Tag or PI Vision. In Microsoft Excel's PI Builder, I would query for pi tags starting with "dist*" and get a count.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Allow specifying a range of older archive files to backup in piartool

The piartool -backup command has multiple parameters that allow for specifying a number of archives to copy. For example it is possible to specify a number of archives to backup starting at the current time (-numarch), or each archive number can b...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Change of a collective member within a collective manager

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Count

As a user of Asset Analytics, I would like to have a rollup calculation that would return the count of ELEMENTS belonging to a certain category. The current count function only returns  the ATTRIBUTE count.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined