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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Allow a PI Point's point class to be edited in the Point Builder of PI System Management Tools

Currently, a PI Point's point class can be edited through PI Builder but not through PI System Management Tools. Please consider giving PI System Management Tools the ability to edit the point class as well.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Use a consistent order of settings when adding a new PI Identity versus editing an existing PI Identity

When you go to add a new PI Identity, the settings appear in this order: Identity Server Description Identity cannot be deleted Identity cannot be used in a Mapping Identity cannot be used in a Trust Identity is disabled However, when you go to e...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Expand the plug-ins by default when PI System Management Tools is opened

PI administrators that keep their PI system up to date will likely hide all of the many deprecated plug-ins in PI System Management Tools. There are few enough plug-ins remaining that the left pane can be fully expanded to show all remaining plug-...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

PI SMT - Archive Editor Improvements

Why is the second server of all selected servers the default selected server for the archive editor? (C# index 1 instead of 0?) If I leave the Tagname empty and press the search button the tag search dialog opens fine. But if I enter some text at...
HolgerJoistOmv about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Increase Box Length for Tagname Field in Archive Editor

The Tagname field visible length should be increased within Archive Editor in System Management Tools. The full tag name is limited and cannot tell what is listed because the name is cut off. (See screenshot and steps listed below.) Steps to repr...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Expose connection history information to PI SMT

As PI System administrator, I would like to know the number of clients connection given a time frame. (e.g. * -1 month) Currently, this is only exposed to the pidiag command line utility. It would help me as a pi system admin to see it within a us...
Jinmo Yi about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Replace "timeout parameters" with "tuning parameters" in the description of the PITUNING Database Security table

In PI System Management Tools, under the Database Security plugin, the description of the PITUNING table is: "Controls access to Timeout parameters and the Firewall" "Timeout parameters" is the old name for "tuning parameters", I'm guessing from ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Make the tuning parameter Base_AllowSIDLookupFailureForMapping visible by default

When this tuning parameter is enabled, it prevents a PI Collective from being flagged as out-of-sync when some of the PI Collective members can resolve the SID of a PI Mapping and others cannot. However, by default, this tuning parameter is hidden...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Better handling of data from mobile or shared equipment

Better handle data coming from shared or mobile equipment where the association of the data changes from one piece of equipment to another. Example: shared drilling equipment data associated with the wells they are drilling.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to write data to the Buffer Subystem using the AF SDK when PI Data Archive is unavailable at start up

As an user, I want to be able to write data to the PI Data Archive via the Buffer Subsystem even when the PI Data Archive is unavailable at start up so that my application can continue to run without having to wait for a connection to the PI Data ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Tell us more