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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PI AF Linked Tables used for Time-Series Data with OOO events

As AF Table Lookup Data Reference is configured with a time column in order to support cashing, edits of the following types to the table data will not be picked up by AF Clients:  1- Update the value of an Existing record/Event 2- Add a ne...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Rename the PIFD database to PIAssetFrameworkDb

Nobody knows what PIFD means. We've had customer personell create PIDF2, PIFD3, etc. when tasked to create new AF databases, and also requests to remove PIFD because ICT personell don't know what it is. I suggest renaming the SQL Server database ...
Asle Frantzen about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Possibility to join internal PI AF tables for Table Lookup Data Reference

Users must use an SQL JOIN clause while configuring linked table to join Link Tables belonging to the same data source . For table Lookups, joining internally existing Link Tables in AF within the AF Server is not possible as Table Lookup Data Ref...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve "Force Creating SQL Database before PI AF Install"

When doing a fresh installation of AF Server, and either the "Validate SQL Connection" option or other Software like PI Notifications, RTQP Engine are selected, the installation cannot be started when the AF SQL Database is not called "PIFD". As t...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add warning message while changing analysis type

Changing from Expression to Rollup by mistake will erase the Expression configuration in PI System Explorer. Add a warning message regarding this.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add the ability to display UOMs in different languages in the PI AF Client

Automatically display UOMs in the PI AF client in the language of your choice i.e. not a conversion of units. For example, to change the display of UOMs to Russian instead of English, kg becomes кг, V becomes B.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Use different Windows account for linked table authentication

As a user, I want to have the option of entering a service account's Windows credentials when authenticating to a Table Connection in PI System Explorer. Currently, the Windows authentication mode only allows impersonation of the user running PI S...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Create substitution parameter for parent of referenced element

I would like to be able to reference the parent of a element reference. As it currently stands, it is only possible to reference the original parent element of an element.
Roger Ward about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Increase PI Notifications methods to include SMS text methods for AD users

Many notifications users are able to access notifications through e-mail, but due to the frequency or lack of importance to the platform they can be easily ignored. This proposal is to allow notifications to be sent to Cell Phones directly through...
Nathan Skitt over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 1 No status

Improve Search Performance when using both Attribute Name and Description

When the AFAttributeSearch(AFDatabase, String, String) AF SDK method is used, the AF Server will produce queries that may result into suboptimal SQL Server execution plans when using the default pageSize parameter for searching including attribute...
Guest 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status