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.
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.
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In the area of change management: it would be useful to be able to find all the displays where a particular PI Tag or AF attribute is being used, so that the impact of retiring or changing data streams could be assessed and managed.
The ability to export tags from a Vision Display to excel is of great value. I export tags from PB to use to create an AF DB/Elements I would expect to do the same in Vision, a tag list or AF Element list.
This tool was a great troubleshooting tool in Processbook. If the same button or function can be available in Vision it would help not only users but also support analysts.
Day to day management of displays is part of a practical domain in which theorical developpers see less value sometimes, I can understand.
To be able to identify rapidly where a TAG or AF object has been used in PI Vision displays is a crucial task that need a lot of effort when no tools exist.
I also understand we could build a query like the one suggested on last August 18.
Or course there is a balance between the effort needed to a new fonctionnality and the benefits it provides to customers, I see the point which was expressed for a similar demand here [https://pisystem.feedback.aveva.com/ideas/PIVISION-I-1191] where it was decided "...to decline this item in favor of other high priority work the product needs."
To be able to cross reference tags should have been thought in the basic design phase of the new PI Vision product, not to be "begged for" in customer support.
My 2 cents.
I viewed the list of suggested enhancements. There are several requests for similar functionality. They often refer to the same "help me find" concept but from different tools. If you add up the votes from each of these separate ideas, they total several thousand. Please address this "where used" concern from multiple tools, PI System Explorer, PI Vision and PI SMT.
As PI Systems grow larger, searching each analysis, PI Vision display, etc. to identify where an attribute is used is not productive. I searched AVEVA documents for a solution to this. I see questions and requests going back to 2019. I would expect that after four years, OSI/AVEVA would have addressed this. When we change the name of an AF attribute, all analyses that reference that attribute reference the new name. So there must be an existing way to identify the analysis in which each attribute is currently used. Please provide logic where we can right click on an attribute and identify all of the analyses where the attribute is used. Another useful feature would be to right click on an analysis and identify all of the attributes used in the analysis. When improving our analyses, we need to know if an attribute is used in an analysis prior to deleting the attribute.
We need this for being able to determine all the tags on our PI Vision screens so that if we are deleting a tag(s) we can ensure all PI Vision screens are updated.
Also add the ability to list out all PI Vision hyperlink references as well!