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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PI Notification Send PI Vision HTML display not a screen shot

We have several reports that take advantage of collections in PI Vision. Collections let you view data across multiple assets sharing a template. Within a collection, we have several trends, which require you to scroll down. We need to send these ...
MattBa about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Improve Digital State Set Management

We have hundreds of digital state sets, many of them the same with the exception of their name (e.g., Manual_Auto, ManualAuto, Manual-Auto, Manuel-Auto, ManuelAutomatique; all with states 0: Manual and 1: Auto). In order to clean up these states, ...
Kelsey Bobeck about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Remove and disable permissions that do not apply in PI System Explorer's Security Configuration window

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the "Permissions for" box always lists all permissions that can possibly be set within PI AF, regardless of the selected objects. Instead, only permissions that apply to the selected objects...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 3 No status

Allow NTLM-authenticated local accounts while installing PI Analysis Service on a computer other than the PI Asset Framework computer

After installation, the PI Analysis Service can run under a local account even if the PI Asset Framework is installed on a different computer, since NTLM authentication can be used between both computers. However, the PI Server install kit does no...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Allow user to select if Services start after upgrade

Give the user the option to not start the PI Services following an upgrade. This allows the user further control, especially during an outage/downtime event to perform the first reboot after an upgrade without beginning to take on data or connecti...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Document publically changes from one version to the next

This applies also to pharma industry, but customer wants exact documentation of what has changed between releases in the underlaying infrastructure. As example after an upgrade, a particular COM technology was no longer used. This could have resul...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Feedback for the "Hardware and PI System Sizing Recommendations Spreadsheet"

Please delete the blank hidden sheet. It's a useless waste of space. On the PI Data Archive sheet, please use named ranges to make your formulas more readable. This will also make it easier for you to catch any mistakes and quickly check if formul...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Add the Unicode support for RDBMS interface

When connecting Redis database via DSN we get error. As interface is ASCII and Redis is Unicode. Please add the unicode support for RDBMS interface.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Allow the PI Interface Configuration Utility to read interface configuration from the secondary in the event that the primary is unavailable

In an HA environment, if the primary Data Archive is unavailable it would be helpful if the Interface Configuration Utility could read the interface configurations from the MDB on the secondary. Additionally, could it be configured so that any cha...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

PISDK supporting registry keys for PI servers with names that include non asci characters

Being able to modify the relevant registry key name in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PISystem\PI-SDK\1.0\ServerHandles for server names which have non asci characters. At the moment, when modifying a server with a non ascii name in the registry the ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status