AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Reformat 2023 help/doc files so text not scrolling off the right hand side of page.

An example of the issue can be found in the 2023 Pi System Explorer help/user doc when searching for "Impact score". The text box goes past the edge of the page and you don't know if you are missing something important.
Steve Hampton over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Element create version in Bulk

When right-click an element in system explorer, then create version, I need to be able to do it in bulk and not element by element.
Gilbert Nassif over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

How to fix errors that prevent users from creating new PI Points, other than restarting the services.

Occasionally an error that prevent users from creating new PI Points occurs. In this case, I would like you to prepare other error resolution methods, because restarting the services will make the PI system temporarily unavailable.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Change column order in System Explorer Attributes tables

Allow the user to change the order of columns that appear in the Attributes table in System Explorer. Currently, as columns are "checked" to be shown via Column Visibility setting, they appear in a predefined order and cannot be changed. For examp...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Create "aliases" of a pipoint using attributes

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

online managed switch of primary member in a collective

Hi, this idea is to allow an automated command in the collective manager in order to perform in a single command downgrade the current primary server to just "secondary" role without rebuilding "all" the DA server, and at the same time to promote ...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Give a warning or more descriptive error message when trying to recalculate when output point has relative time set

Recalculation doesn't work when Relative time is set on the output point. Currently the error given is the one shown in Unable to manually backfill analysis from PI System Explorer: One or more output attributes do not support recalculation. Which...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Subscription Templates

I'm currently working on a project to push notifications immediately to a database, via REST delivery endpoint. However, each delivery endpoint needs to be subscribed per notification rule, AND also configured. Configuration can take awhile to do,...
Milin Roshan over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Export Identities, Users & Groups to CSV instead of XML files

Since PI SMT cannot import XML files to fetch the PI Identities, Users & Groups from a different PI Server, it would be useful to have it export this information to a CSV file instead, which can be used by different tools to insert them back i...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Deleting a root element can leave orphaned child elements in the AFDatabase

https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=169E3AE1-F716-0842-B0FE-9F4563316373 Deleting a root element can leave orphaned child elements in the AFDatabase Please review the KB article. This scenario should not be allowed...
Dan.Louchbaum over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status