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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

Allow PIWorld and piusers to be deleted

Nobody should be using the "PIWorld" PI Identity or the "piusers" PI Group. The most that we can do at the moment is disable them. It would be much better if we can just delete them and never look back.
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 No status

Make the tuning parameter PointDb_RemoveEmptySource visible by default

This tuning parameter toggles the automatic deletion of unused point sources. By default, it is hidden and the automatic deletion is disabled. Point sources are used mainly for PI Interfaces, which are slowly being replaced with PI Connectors and...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Add TimeRangeMethod to StringBuilder DataReference or automatically use StartTime when used on Event Frames.

A frequent  PI Square problem regards using StringBuilder DR on event frames and the user wants to see the referenced element's attribute at the StartTime of the event frame.  Something like a TimeRangeMethod or  UseStartTime flag w...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 7 No status

PI Builder Publish without Check In

It would be useful during development to be able to publish a PI Builder spreadsheet with an option to not check in the changes so you could check what the changes look like and validate them in PI System Explorer and decide whether to undo the ch...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Option to reconcile templates during xml import

Suppose the following scenario: a user has 2 AF databases (a development and a production one), both containing same version of a template. The user deletes a few attributes and analyses from one element template (development), exports the xml and...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Add array sorting function to AF Analytics.

This would also enable calculation of percentiles. Percentile calculation would also be possible if the user could use nested substitution parameters in array functions. For example: RecVals := RecordedValues('Attribute1', start, end) CountLowe...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add utility for certificate management for PI SQL Data Access Server(RTQP Engine)

We should not have to uninstall/reinstall PI SQL Data Access Server(RTQP Engine) to update certificates.
BruceMcCamant over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add Function to Determine if a Bit is Active in a Word Value

It would be extremely helpful if a function existed within PI AF where could provided a value/tag reference and a bit number to check and see if its active. The function would return a True or False value if that bit is active. Something like the ...
Justin Jackson 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Users should be able to define display digits on Archive editor

Currently the Archive editor doesn't allow users to define how many digits should be shown for the data values and it does not follow the DisplayDigits tag attribute setting. Users should be able to define how many digits to be shown.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Add the "Enable Analyses when created from template" option to PI Builder

Would like to have the possibility to edit the option: Enable Analyses when created from template, for Analysis category in PI Builder.
Eduardo Miller over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status