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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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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To bring back Archive Activity Grid feature

To bring back Archive activity grid which brings many insights for the administrators for archive health monitoring. My suggestion is to maybe enhance it and provide a UI base functionality, similar to PI AuditViewer.
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Prevent Analysis calc failure for attribute not found

If the same analysis is trying to be used for multiple templates, there will be times when some attributes are not available from a template - this will cause the analysis to fail. Even when the difference in attributes is known and attempted to b...
Dan Benedict 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

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 over 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 over 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 over 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined