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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Dependency between Notifications

It would be nice to have a dependency between Notification in a way that if one Notification is sent other Notifications are not sent. My use case is this. I have a corporate AF Server that monitors multiple sites. If a site loses power, I would...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Include Creation date in event frame properties for Notifications

We see issues where notifications appear to be delivered late but then find the event frame was created at a later time than the actual event because of connectivity issues. Having the creation date of the event frame exposed for a notification wo...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 2 No status

Enable headers for SOAP web service end point

As a PI Administrator I need PI Notifications to support custom headers for SOAP web service end points. Some external systems require specific headers and currently it is only possible to customize headers for REST end points. As an example of an...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Notifications Subscriptions Notify Option defaults to "Start and End"

Many EFs are poor health in nature such that notifying the user when the event is ended is very important. Many users don't realize that this is an option. Either make start and end the default or present all choices more visibly to the user. This...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Ability to modify SOAP xml format

There are some cases when the sender wants to modify the format of the SOAP xml itself. Currently Notifications service constructs a XML request including all the variables provided by the wsdl.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Allow dots in JSON property names when using REST Delivery Endpoints

When configuring a Noification with a REST Delivery Endpoint, there is no way to escape a dot (".") so it doesn't gets interpreted as a path delimiter. There are cases when the dot must be part of the property name. One way to solve it would be to...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 2 No status

Allow multiple Notification Message Formats for the same Notification

For Notifications which send on Event Start and Event End, it would be useful to have the ability to have multiple Message Formats for the same Notification (one to send out at start, one to send out at end). Advantages: -Can include "End Time" ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

Normalized view of the Database Security Table

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined