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
Categories Navigation
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2022

Navigation: Alternate display name for element

Please allow for having an Attribute tagged as a Display Name for the entire element that would be shown in dialogs like the Switch Asset instead of the Element Name. It is reasonable if this had to be indexed to be usable. We are aware of the tooltip which helps but its only sometimes useful and does not seem to be sorted alphabetically when the names are identical. We have identical element names at the lowest element level with the parent path having more unique name (this is to support creating processbook displays from the parent and being able to refer to A,B,C in a relative way if they were fully unique this is not possible.). The Switch Asset is basically unusable if there are too many like this. Alternately, allow showing 2 or more levels of the hierarchy so that more context can be seen. The full path is usually too long for that to be useful so a partial path would be nicer.
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Aug 19, 2022
    PI Vision 2021 introduces new capabilities that allow users to show a partial asset path in the asset list (instead of asset name only). If your request is for more flexibility beyond what is available in PI Vision 2021, please comment with additional details. See an overview of new PI Vision 2021 capabilities on our YouTube learning channel: https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w ( https://youtu.be/LomuqXKEH7w )
  • Attach files
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Aug 19, 2022
    Totally agree with the assessment that Switch Asset is unusable when elements are non-unique. Regardless of uniqueness, Switch Asset is completely unusable when scaling up. We have thousands of related assets. User should not have to search this way when the related asset is under the same parent. I like suggestions above, with the related elements sorted by distance from related asset on the tree. I also wonder why the left hand "Asset" panel cannot be used for navigation when not in build? Would simplify the entire thing.
  • Brent Bregenzer
    Reply
    |
    Aug 19, 2022
    The asset list for context switching can now show path information for elements in the list, which I think would address this request. RE: "The full path is usually too long for that to be useful so a partial path would be nicer." Only the unique part of the path will be shown in the dropdown. For further details, please see the documentation (Asset-list options -> Show asset path): https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-vision/page/asset-list-options.html