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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Warm and cold PI Connector for OPC UA failover

Currently only hot failover is featured for the PI Connector for OPC UA but this creates a lot of strain on the data sources. We need to be able to select warm/cold failover mechanism.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

User-defined functions

Allow arguments/parameters to be passed to variable definitions, effectively creating user-defined functions. For example, suppose that I want to define the function TagSum, which adds the values at all events in a time range. Then: TagSum(tag, s...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Totalizer that resets to 0 with Asset based Analytics

I need to calculate a running sum (totalizer) of a PI Point and reset it to 0 at the beginning of each month. I would like to do this with Asset based Analytics. There are workarounds to do this, but none are great. For example, one workaround inv...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Better search criteria in Management tab of PI System Explorer

PI System Explorer Management Tab should have better search criteria. For example, select specific elements in which to rerun an Analysis. Maybe use Element = something OR/AND Element = something else. Or search by element path.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

PI Tag Renaming Detection for PI Vision/PE Calculations

When input PI Tags are referenced in PI Vision 2020+ calculations, they do not automatically detect PI Tag name changes. For users with a lot of calculations, this can be extremely problematic in the event of a PI Tag name change. In the event of ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Limit element creation using reference types

I’m designing an AF database where we want most things to be correctly set up and planned on the template side, so that end-users can create the AF content later. One of the functionalities I use is creating my own reference types i PI System Expl...
Asle Frantzen over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Possibility to disable the message "An AFEnumerationSet matching the digital state set for PI Point was not found" in PI System Explorer

I would like to have the option to disable the feature introduced in PI System Explorer 2018 SP2 to pop up the following message when an Enumeration set does not match the name of a digital set in the PI Data Archive: "An AFEnumerationSet matching...
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 No status

Event Gantt: Better Displaying of Deep Events

For events with lots of children, do not show each child event on their own row on the Gantt Chart because it takes up a lot of vertical space for Events that have lots of children. Instead only go to a new row if the events overlap in time.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Event Comparison Displays 1 No status

Display single result of Event Frame attributes that are calculations (Average, Total, etc.) instead of underlying tag data

When there is an Event Frame attribute that is calculated, i.e. the attribute has a “By Time Range” Value retrieval method of Total, Average, Maximum, Minimum, etc., PI System Explorer shows a single value for this Event Frame Attribute. In PI Vis...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Event Comparison Displays 1 No status