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.


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    Increase the maximum number of tags PI Builder can import into Excel

    As a PI admin I would like to manage my tag configuration in bulk to efficiently carry out my role. PI Builder and excel provide a good way to do this for medium tag counts, however, the limitation of 100,000 tags makes it difficult to do this for...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

    Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator"

    Add Tag Import feature like old "PI Tag Configurator":  PI Builder cannot import attributes of a list of tags pasted into the spreadsheet from another source like "PI Tag Configurator" could.  With PI Builder, if you have want to work on...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 8 No status

    Analysis configuration on PI Builder

    It would be nice to split the configuration string of an Analysis Rule along several Excel cells, for (i) better readability and (ii) avoid hitting the limit of characters on a single Excel cell (currently, 32,767 characters). It would be special...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    Rename "PIAFBuilder" to "PI Builder" in Excel's add-in lists

    The name "PIAFBuilder" still appears in at least 2 places in Excel (see the attached screenshots): File → Options → Add-ins Developer tab → COM Add-ins Please change the name to "PI Builder". "PI AF Builder" was the name of PI Builder before PI A...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    Preserve formatting in PI Builder when use Simplified Configuration Strings

    If the "Show simplified configuration strings" option is selected in Settings, this removes GUIDS from the output in Excel. However, this option also removes the linefeeds in any formatted Analyses. If reloaded then this can corrupt the analyses ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

    Remove limit on the number of attributes that can be selected in PI Builder

    Currently, in PI Builder there is a hard limit on the number of columns that can be selected (it is set to 1023 columns). It makes it hard to work with templates that have over 1020 attributes configured and limits the configuration capabilities.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

    Throw an error if both excdev and excdevpercent or both compdev and compdevpercent are present when publishing

    Currently, if you publish a PI Point configuration that contains both excdev and excdevpercent or both compdev and compdevpercent, the "percent" versions silently take priority. This means that if a user imports excdev and excdevpercent, edits onl...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 7 Declined

    Be able to output point configuration from a list of tags that is already in Excel

    For example, after exporting the stale/bad tag list from SMT, use PI Builder to pull out the instrument tag and location 1-5 information to only edit and check the points on that list. Some times, not all points from a point source is having an is...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Completed

    Separate "Simplify Configuration Strings" options for GUIDs and Substitution in PI Builder

    When using PI Builder add-in for Excel to retrieve attribute or analysis configuration, we sometimes want to enable the option at Settings > Retrieve > Show Simplified Configuration Strings in order to remove the GUIDs. However, when doing s...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

    Add support for context menus for cells in PI Builder

    As a user, I want to have context menus for Excel cells when using PI Builder, so that I can select from different options using context menus to speed up configuration of AF objects.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 Declined