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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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Organization of Elements, Attributes, Analyses in Pi System Explorer

By default, everything is sorted alphabetically in PI System Explorer (PI AF). You can divide attributes into categories, but within a category the order is always alphabetical. It would be useful if you could create your own (fixed) order of the...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 Declined

Display AF Database ID in Database Properties

The IDs of databases on the PI Asset Framework Server is only visible using the PI Web API, AF SDK or by making an attribute using a substitution parameter. It'd be far simpler to just have it displayed in Database properties like how the AF Serve...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

PI Builder to automatically include Excluded Attributes when the Value or ConfigString is set

When setting the value or config string property of an excluded attribute in PI Builder, the attribute should be automatically included. This should work using both attributes as row and attribute column layouts. Currently, if the attribute is ex...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

PI AF Analysis Templates - Evaluate button can evaluate logic at previous point in time

On PI AF in Library on Element Templates - Analysis Templates, the evaluate button should be able to evaluate logic at a previous point in time as well as the current time. This would allow better visibility over how logic performs for periods of ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ability to retrieve only all top-level Attributes

In an AF Hierarchy where an element contains dozens of Attributes - each with Child Attributes - I am interested in only bringing back all top-level attributes. The use case is that the top-level attributes may not have any naming convention in co...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Ensure all AF Attribute types' support Timestamps Updates upon value entry

Currently, when creating an Attribute in PI AF using "String Builder" or "None" Data References, the system does not update the timestamp associated with the attribute's value upon value change. When the end-user looks at the timestamp they see a ...
Moshe Sabag over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Allow extensions in PI AF Analysis template

Ability to allow extensions in PI AF Analysis template, in order to modify specific element analysis.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

In a string builder DR, allow use of substituted values from non PI point DRs to retrieve an attribute value

If I have two AF databases, I would like to pull the value of an attribute from one database to another. The string builder path for the other database's attribute requires a value substitution from a non PI point DR from in the target AF DB (whic...
Paul Kim over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Refrain from creating PI Points when AF Analytics is doing an expensive calcultion

If it can be known that the Analytics service is busy with an expensive calculation, the Data Archive should pause on creating PI Points, as this is also an expensive operation and may interfere with the calculation completion.
Laurie Dieffenbach about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Create "aliases" of a pipoint using attributes

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...
ValterFostini over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status