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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Effective Access tab in PSE should show Owner Identity

This enhancement would be resolving a rare problem, as the Owner Identity is not granted rights to any Items in AF by default. It would be due to the security scheme configured in AF, which the responsible AF Administrator should be aware of. The ...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add Check In / Check Out button to PI Builder

It would be useful to add a Check In and Check Out button to PI Builder. So if any undesired change is made, it can be undone.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

backfilling start date error

I have one specific complaint but when I’m creating/testing a new event frame it is the worst. When backfilling a single analysis, the start time and end time boxes will throw an error and not allow the you to start the backfill if at any time the...
David Lopert 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Resizing the Installation Complete and Installation Error Window

For users who are performing installations through the use of PI System installation kits they would like the ability to resize the Installation Complete (Installation Error) Window so that they can get all of the details on all of the modules of ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Allow specifying a path for orphaned elements for ParentID/ElementID functionality

Implement following logic for ParentID/ElementID functionality : if a parent element is not found  (invalid and/or empty ) - put a child element under specified hierarchy. there should be a separate configuration for both options: what to do ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined

PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined