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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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Have PSD detect PI client tools installs

In our landscape, we usually create an ‘Admin’ server for each major PI system and install all the client tools on it for support staff to use for bulk work because it is normally easier (rather than their desktops) due to the admin servers being ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Remove timestamp from tooltip display for static or table lookup attributes in PSE

When hovering over an attribute in PI System Explorer for PI AF, the tooltip indicates a timestamp of 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM. For static or table lookup attributes that have a Value Type of DateTime, this is confusing and misleading since two timest...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Completed

Provide AF Analysis Function for Element Unit

There is a function in AF named TagEU(). This function returns the EU of the PI Tag, NOT the EU of the element. This presents problems in analysis if the Units in PI are not spelled the same as they are in AF or if the unit in AF different than th...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed

PI AF Linked Tables used for Time-Series Data with OOO events

As AF Table Lookup Data Reference is configured with a time column in order to support cashing, edits of the following types to the table data will not be picked up by AF Clients:  1- Update the value of an Existing record/Event 2- Add a ne...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Rename the PIFD database to PIAssetFrameworkDb

Nobody knows what PIFD means. We've had customer personell create PIDF2, PIFD3, etc. when tasked to create new AF databases, and also requests to remove PIFD because ICT personell don't know what it is. I suggest renaming the SQL Server database ...
Asle Frantzen over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Improve "Force Creating SQL Database before PI AF Install"

When doing a fresh installation of AF Server, and either the "Validate SQL Connection" option or other Software like PI Notifications, RTQP Engine are selected, the installation cannot be started when the AF SQL Database is not called "PIFD". As t...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Expose the ExDesc of a PI Point on an AF Attribute.

Expose the ExDesc of a PI Point on an AF Attribute. This would permit to retrieve additional metadata from PI Points that can be used in AF.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Add the ability to display UOMs in different languages in the PI AF Client

Automatically display UOMs in the PI AF client in the language of your choice i.e. not a conversion of units. For example, to change the display of UOMs to Russian instead of English, kg becomes кг, V becomes B.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Validating AF Servers Match

As a PI Admin in a highly regulated environment, I need to demonstrate that the AF Servers in my production and qualification environments are identical. OSIsoft does not recommend comparing PIFD databases directly, and there are small difference...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Remove Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools For Office Runtime (VSTO Runtime) from any install kits that contain PI AF Client

According to this, VSTO Runtime is included with PI AF Client for the sake of PI Builder. The installation of VSTO Runtime also causes the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable to be installed as well. However, accordin...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined