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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Allow PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) to be managed by Powershell tools for the PI System

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

several Instances for PI Relay

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...
juergen.b.schmidt about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Ability to use templates from a different database

On the AF server we have things structured in different databases. When working in a database it would be great if I could use a database template (e.g. element template) from a different database. In some cases these templates are valid for both ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Harmonize Attribute Editor and Attribute Template Editor

Currently Attribute Template Editor and Attribute Editor behave different regarding visualisation of templates when using derived templates. Attribute Template Editor shows the attributes of the base template only if Group By Template is checked....
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

PI AF High Availability Collective

PI AF HA that is read/write, for PI Analysis and PI Notifications also.
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Declined

Change UoM, Display Digits of attribute independently of element template

Currently, if an attribute is created with a Unit of Measurement in an element template, it is not possible to change the Unit of Measurement in the element created from that template. If no UoM is given in the template, then the UoM of the under...
Christoph Rose about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Substitution Parameters for PI Point Exdesc

I would like to have an out of the box way for an attribute to display a pipoint exdesc. One thought would be able to have a substitution parameter that would point at the pipoints exdesc.
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Align Event Start/End send parameter for notification subscribers of the same group

Currently, when a group is added as a subscriber to a notification rule template, all the group members are added with the parameter "Event Start". They can be individually customized. When all group members have been set to "Event End" and a new ...
Guest 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Update PI-AF install procedure to handle custom PIFD Naming

If hosting multiple AF DBs on a single SQL instance it is necessary to rename the PIFD default name to a unique name. For instance PIFD_<AFHostname> The current PI-AF install routine does not handle this situation - forcing a step to rename ...
thomasco 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Support UOMs across AF databases within an organization

UOM conversions done on one AF Instance cannot be referenced by another AF Instance, even for the base/built-in UOMs. A customer uses an AF pattern where they have a golden (reference) AF structure that is referenced by other AF structures to help...
Laurie Dieffenbach 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status