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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Association of Multiple Tags That Represent Same Measurement

As a PI admin, I would like to associate mutiple tags together that represent the same measurement at different time periods SO THAT users see one set of data together instead of the old data in the old tag and the new data in the new tag after DC...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Show the AF SQL hostname server in SMT

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Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI SMT: some plugins missing features for future data

Certain plugins in PI SMT do not have features to support future data 1. Snapshot and Archive Statistics (is available only through piartool) 2. Current Data does not subscribe to timeseries in Update Manager 3. Stale and Bad tags
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store PI Data Archive information in an SQL Server database

Most of the PI Data Archive information that is accessible from PI System Management tools is perfect for a relational database: PI Identities, PI Mappings, PI Point attributes, PI Message Logs, etc. Moving all of this to an SQL Server database w...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Increasing the dynamic range of compressed data

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Link tuning parameters to the UOM database

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Being able to activate the Log of abnormally long request made to the PI Data Archive

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...
jerome.boudon about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store multiple events at the same timestamp

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

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

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