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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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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Show custom symbols on display thumbnail

Displays currently show a blue box when custom symbols are used.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Extensibility 3 Declined

Asset Search: Tree View / Structure in PI Vision - Not consistent with other products.

Not a fan of the Asset Framework tree structure in PI Vision. It needs to work as a tree structure just like PI System Explorer. The setup in Vision is too clunky and is hard to navigate. Again, I would like to see the tree structure consistent ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Look & Feel / Styling 4 No status

Official support for an iFrame symbol in PI Vision

Currently many customers are using custom extensions to provide iFrame support to PI VIsion. Use cases include integration with 3rd party applications (o365, Power BI, video feeds, maps, etc.)
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 1 No status

UFL Timezone Conversion

Supported timestamps are currently limited to Local or UTC timezones. Data sources may not be configurable to provide timestamps in supported formats. There currently exists no robust or simple way of converting between timezones using the UFL...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 6 Declined

Enable or Disable single DataSource

When a datasource is actually offline and we don't want the UFL connector to keep trying uploading or connecting to it and pollute the message log . The best option would be having the stop/start enable/disable and restart options for each dataso...
Andy about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 3 Declined

OPC UA Adapter Create Tag on Discovery

For the OPC UA Adapter, we are noticing that a tag won't be created until a data point comes in after the tag is added to the data filter. That causes issues for slow updating tags. For instance an open/shut valve that is rarely operated. We have ...
Damon Vinciguerra about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 Future consideration

Create a programmatic access layer

Customers have been using DLResize in the VBA pidldialogs.xla project which is unsupported. It would be nice to create a programmatic access layer so that things such as DLResize can be done in a supported way. It would also be helpful to have pro...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 Declined

Native MQTT Publishing (Egress) to Support Unified Namespace (UNS) Architectures

Description & Use Case: As the manufacturing industry shifts toward Industry 4.0 and Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures, data must flow seamlessly between all systems in a publish/subscribe model. The AVEVA PI System is exceptional at inges...
Mandeep Sidhu 5 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Use a calculation in another calculation

Currently, you cannot use a calculated variable in another calculation on PI Vision. This complicates calculations because all operations must be done under one calculation.
Navern Moodley about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Analytics / Calculations 1 No status

Replace tags in PI Vision objects by editing the tagname

In Processbook, we used pre-built displays where colors, appearance, and areas were fixed as templates. Only the tag name was edited in the trends or values, and the display was saved under the new name. It would greatly simplify display creation ...
Peter Schwarzmueller 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Authoring Displays 2 No status