Skip to Main Content
AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

Status Completed
Product PI Connectors
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2022

PI Point name Illegal character handling in PI Connectors

Currently source points for PI Connectors that contain illegal characters are handled differently depending on the PI Connector. Some will replace the character while others will map an illegal character replacement when creating the PI Point. These illegal characters should be dealt with the same across all PI Connectors. Examples of illegal data source Characters: * ' ? ; { } [ ] | \ ` "
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Aug 20, 2022
    The latest versions of PI Connector for Wonderware Historian and PI Connector for UFL include the capability to configure the substitution off illegal characters for PI point names and AF element names.
  • Attach files
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Aug 20, 2022
    Can see that PI point for Wonderware and UFL connector with handle of the illegal characters but doesn't change the AF which cause issue on below. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/thread/15019-pi-tagname-limitation Caution: Avoid using the underscore (_) and percent sign (%) characters in the Tag attribute, as some applications use them in special ways. For example, SQL uses these characters as wild cards.