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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See latest use (Date/Time) of a configured trust (or MDB Interfaces entry) within PI SMT

Every time a PI Database is restarted the interfaces and connections will reestablish their connection to the PI Database fresh restarted PI Database. This is an opportunity to write the last used (last seen) time stamp for the configured PI Trust...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

By default, do not install the PI Module Database Builder when the PI System Management Tools install kit is run

Similar to how the PI DataLink install kit included PI DataLink (Legacy) but required manual modification to setup.ini in order to install it (this was before PI DataLink Legacy was dropped from the PI DataLink install kit entirely), the PI Module...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Make the tuning parameter PointDb_RemoveEmptySource visible by default

This tuning parameter toggles the automatic deletion of unused point sources. By default, it is hidden and the automatic deletion is disabled. Point sources are used mainly for PI Interfaces, which are slowly being replaced with PI Connectors and...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Expose "Tuning Parameters" in AFSDK

It would be very intesting to access tuning parameters (that are present in PI SMT) via AFSDK. This is interesting when you have to manage dozens of PI DA servers and you want to ensure they are all correctly configured (and no change are performe...
Gael over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Use geolocation to find nearby assets around me

Use geolocation to find assets around the location of another asset. For example, find all wells within 2 miles of well 1043.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Add support for clipboard "cut" operation in PI System Explorer

As a user, I want to be able to perform clipboard "cut" operations in PI System Explorer, so that I can remove an object and store it in the clipboard for later use.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

AF Table Link via Web REST Query or SharePoint List

Having the ability to query cloud-based data, web data, or SharePoint data would further leverage the ability to bring in various data sources. Having the ability to do a web call would allow us to connect to so many more data sources. Sharepoin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Ability to automatically create children and grand children when creating elements from a template that has them

Add ability to automatically create children and grand children when creating elements from a template that has children and grand children templates When creating the Asset Framework structure, it would be nice to have the ability to automatical...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Add a UOM prefix database

The UOM database is currently cluttered with SI-prefixed units. To help clean this up, there should be a UOM prefix database. Then instead of having J, kJ, MJ, etc. in the UOM database, you would just map the SI prefix set to J. Also, instead of ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Configurable return when hovering over element in PI System Explorer (PI AF)

Make it configurable to show the "Description" of an element (or any other field configured by the user) when hovering over an element in PI System Explorer instead of only showing its path.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined