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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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Event mode that applies NoReplace to snapshot as well

Currently the NoReplace event mode will Append data if a value with the same timestamp as the snapshot comes in. Customer would like an event mode that would discard the value if there is existing data with the same timestamp regardless of the val...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI AF Link & PIBatch - Ability to uninstall it

PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

AI Detection for Stale Points

As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

troubleshooting AF Analytics with better diagnostics

I'd like better diagnostic information around why event frames are not create by AF Analytics so that my solutions are of high quality and my users have confidence in their EF data.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Better Error Handling and Reporting

On more than one occasion, have missed several days worth of calculations with no indication of a problem. There were errors in the log, however there is nothing monitoring this log. The analytics service was running, but not actually doing anythi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Event frames start trigger on trigger condition change

I would like to be able to define start trigger that fires a e new event frames only if the start condition changes. I mean: - Start trigger: 'Equip Status' = "ON" - End trigger: 'Equip rpm' >= 1000 I would like that the event start is triggere...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

XOR operator for expression analyses

AF (and PE) expressions currently have AND and OR operators. These work either logically or (if both operands are integer) in a bitwise fashion. There should also be an XOR operator that works the same way, to avoid the messy construct (A AND NOT ...
tinklerj over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Analysis Preview Results - Automatically scroll to result row

After generating "Preview Results" (from right mouse click on analysis name on PSE Analysis Templates tab) it would be nice if the upper results table would auto scroll to the related time value when using the trend cursor to click on the results ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status