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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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205 VOTE

Support PI tag renaming

Tags created by a PI Connector can be renamed, but these renamed points can be "forgotten" if the Connector's point cache is lost. Updating the Tag Mapping configuration file can avoid this cache loss, but I would like to be able to rename Connect...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 26 Completed

Control which PI/AF servers each data source sends data to.

Right now, for one instance of the connector, all configured data sources will send data to all configured PI Data Archives and PI AF Servers. It is all or nothing. Due to the fact that you cannot have multiple instances of the same connector on a...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Support Assigning Point Sources for Connectors

Connectors currently assign point sources; this is not user configurable.  In addition, all connector of like kind get the same point source.  This makes it difficult to determine which tags "belong" to which connector node.  Users ...
Brian Deslatte over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 2 Declined

PI Connector Relay support write modes

While writing data to PI through the connector relay there seems to be no option to control the write mode . E.g."[-109] Value at This Time Already Exists" is shown in the logs if the archive already contains an event with the same timestamp. The ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 2 No status

Enable Relay/DCM to allow control over the data streams and destination PI Systems

Currently the Relay will send all data streams to all routed destination. This does not allow customers to have control over what data streams go to a specific destination. The only workaround is to have independent Connector/Relay pairs with spec...
Nico Cha over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

PI Connectors buffering (Tau) - provide configuration options

As a PI Administrator, I would like to be able to DISABLE or configure Tau buffering SO THAT after a network outage the flood of data doesnt overload my network switch and PI DA. My current use case doesn't require the data that may be lost during...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Allow the AF root element name to be configurable

The root element in AF is determined by the Connector code.  Allow the name of the root element to be specified by the user.
Clint Ramsey over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 No status

Add Configuration Export/Import function for Data Collection Manager

It would be helpful to export and import the configuration of the data collection manager to make tasks like moving Data Collection Manager to a new host easier. Our current information from PI Support Team is, that we have do configure from scrat...
Fabian Ufer about 1 year ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Allow data sources and servers to be renamed

Currently, if you want to rename a data source, PI Data server, or PI Asset server, you must delete the one with the old name and create a new one with the new name, and redo all of the configuration. This is especially a pain for data sources, si...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Make the PI Data Collection Manager more user friendly for setting up the connector and Relay

Customer from case 01234736 has mentioned that it can be confusing having the Connector Administration and PI Data Collection Manager have the options to modify and configure the PI Connectors 2.x. For example, when configuring the Data Source, yo...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status