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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.

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Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

Mapping of event frame analysis variables to element attributes

It should be possible to map variables in event frame analysis to element attributes.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 No status

scheduled recalculation

For our technical account we have to do recalulations on a daily basis, because of late arriving data. Auto-recalculation is not an option, because late arriving data that arrives after we have published the results, should not(!) be respected any...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Limit the load of the PIRecalculationprocessor when backfilling

We had a few issues with key-users creating inefficient AF Analysis and starting a backfill over a longer time period. This resulted in a CPU load of 100% (caused by the PIRecalculationprocessor). The whole PI System got not responsive incl. PI Sy...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Provide 'GoTo' like Funciton

Please provide a 'GoTo' like Funciton for Analysis Expressions to skip expressions or maybe even go back to a previous Expression. I realize you don't have line numbers per se, but if the Expressions operate in order, could you use the Variable Na...
Pete Long about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Allow Asset Analytics to output to annotations

As someone who has migrated our calculations from PI ACE to Asset Analytics, we need to be able to annotate various calculation outputs in the same way we were able to with PI ACE. Please enable analyses to output annotations to various PI Tags in...
Roger Ward about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Add 'Stopped by user' status for analysis

As an AF administrator, I would like to understand the difference between an analysis that is stopped by an end user, or an analysis that has stopped but should likely be running. Currently when an analysis is stopped, we do not know if this is ex...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Change behavior to retrieve contacts in bulk

In a large scale deployment, or in an undersized system retrieving AF Contacts, or accessing the subscription tab on a Notification Rule can be slow. A solution is of course to properly size the system or reduce the scale, however there is a compo...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Export Event Frame Analysis Reference

The AF XML Import/Export is described by OSIsoft as a tool for backing up and restoring an AF database to either the same server or a different server. However, one object relationship that is not included in the XML file is an Event Frame's refer...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Notification Screenshot Custom URL

we're examining the new functionality of attaching screenshots to emails sent by PI Notifications. The problem we're having is that we would like to use an attribute value for the URL. This does not seem to be possible. In the configuration, only ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 1 No status