AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Add a space before "Template" in the default element template name after using "Convert To Template"

Currently, if you convert an element to a template, the default name of the template is of the form "[Element Name]Template". Please consider changing this to "[Element Name] Template" to increase readability and make the name more consistent with...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

If an attribute template changes type from A to B and uses A's default value, then use B's default value

If an attribute template is of data type A and its default value is the default value of data type A, then if we change the attribute template's data type to B, then the attribute template's default value should become the default value of B. For...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

If the reference UOM of a UOM changes, relabel the sample conversion immediately

If you add or edit a UOM and change the reference UOM when the method type is "Simple", the sample conversion will not reflect this change unless the factor or the offset is edited. Instead, the change in the reference UOM should be reflected imm...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Tool for SQL Security and Consistency Check for the PI AF Server

It is difficult to manage the AF security complexity and ensure proper authorizations so that there are no security holes.  I would like a built-in tool that can go through and check various aspects of AF/PIFD security and integrity and gener...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow the boxes in PI System Explorer's Security Configuration window to be vertically resized

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the border under the "Items to Configure" box and above "Identities" and "Permissions for" should be adjustable. This would allow "Items to Configure" to grow and the other 2 boxes to shrink...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

AF external table cache

We have some central tables which we want to be accessible for all AF users like the central telephone directory (to add information about maintenance contacts for example). This table is quite big in a company with several thousands of employees ...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call.

When calling PI Point data values using RelativeTime, the timestamp should show the time of that value not the time of the call. In PI Server 2012 the time of the value was shown when using the RelativeTime call from PI System Explorer. In the PI ...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Expose whether or not an attribute template is overridden on the element in PI System Explorer

When I override an attribute template on an element (for example, changed descriptions), it would be useful to see some sort of flag on the attribute in PSE to let me know that it’s no longer linked to the template
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Alphabetize Selections in drop downbox when creating filters in EF, etc.

In PI System Explorer, when creating a filter for looking at Event Frames, in the dropdown box, the selection items aren’t sorted in alphabetic order.  It is an arduous task to review each of the selections to pick the one that you want. It w...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Improve selecting inputs for Formula DataReference with large number of attributes

When an element has a large number of attributes defined (e.g. 400), then it is very difficult to select an attribute as an input to the Formula DataReference because the dropdown does not have a scroll bar.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status