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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Preserve variable-attribute mapping upon attribute path change

Currently, if a variable is mapped to an attribute and the attribute's AF path changes, the variable must be remapped to the attribute. Instead of relying on the attribute's full path to identify the attribute, each attribute should be identified...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 Declined

EnableAutoBackFilling for specified AF analyses

Is it possible to enable or disable the parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for different group of Analysis in different database.   The idea is to not have same  parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for all Analysis of all databases on the same ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

AF function PrevEvent() should return timestamp of previous event even if data is "No Data"

Normally AF function PrevEvent() returns the timestamp of the previous event for a specified timestamp. But if the previous event is system digital state "No Data" it does not return the timestamp but again system digital state "No Data". That is...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 Declined

Compression (with the opposite intention)

If you have a PI Tag that fluctuates within very excessive ranges, then it becomes quite difficult to observe its trending patterns in a chart because of its volatility. A feature to smooth the volatile values (i.e. exclude those outside of a use...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Create a Flag for AFGetTrace to Show Calculation Steps for Analysis Data References

Background: Currently, the only why to troubleshoot the analysis service is to set the trace levels through the various config files.  This only works when the analytic engine is being used.  In other words, this only works if the analy...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Analysis with conditional timestamp override

Currently it is only possible to specify one timestamp override per analysis.  I would like a way to set a conditional based timestamp override that way the output timestamp could vary based on the result of an analysis.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined

Add the Analysis Description as a column to the PI System Explorer Management

When I open PI System Explorer and click the Management button in the bottom-left I'd like the ability to show and hide certain columns of information; for example, I'd like to be able to add the Analysis Description as a column.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Introduce jump labels in analysis expressions or attribute config strings

The traceability of cross-element analysis in the PI System Explorer would be greatly improved by using jump labels on relative or absolute paths in the expression or in the ConfigStrings. For example, you could jump to the referenced element or a...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined

Flow control function in Analitycs

As control engineer, i think it´s necesary to include some flow control functions, as for next, while, etc; and the capacity to do Iterative functions.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined