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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.

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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Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

PI System Connector Destination AF Configuration String should not Contain Source PI Server Name if it is Unreachable

Currently, if the PI Server specified in the source PI AF server is unreadable from the PI System Connector node, the Connector will forward the listed source PI Server name in the configuration string to the destination AF Server. This causes con...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 Completed

Retrieve an Attribute Reference from a String variable

Because some functions in PI AF Analytics require an attribute reference (instead of a tag number or tag value), it would be useful to be able to retrieve an attribute reference using a String variable. This functionality would allow dependent att...
Daniel Marlowe over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined

Improve Scalability of PI Analytics

Currently you can only run a single PI Analytics instance at a time. We have two VMs running PI Analytics in a failover situation, but this means that one of the VMs is sitting idle 99% of the time. We are starting to hit the limits of scaling w...
aguinane over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Add a string array function to extract all items into a string result

Our process is writing an array of strings into an AF attribute of the same type. This AF attribute may receive information of different size (index) in time. We need to extract all the information contained in the string array (all the items) an...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

AF Tag Search, such as found in PI Builder, Should Show Snapshot Data

In Tag Configurator and PI SMT plug in.  Users are able to hover over tag search results to display the tag's snapshot data. PI Builder should have the same functionality.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Completed

Option to write Default Value to PI tags created through AF Templates

When creating PI points through AF Templates, there should be an option to "Write Default Value after Point Creation", or some other way to initialize the value of an automatically created PI tag. Right now, there is no way to replace the Pt Cre...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

Add an option to mark the PI Point Data Reference to not be updated when a Create or Update data Reference is issued

Currently when a PI Point Data Reference receives a call telling to Create or Update the Data Reference, it will resolve the String builder and then lock that Data Reference so that if someone changes the template, that change will not be replicat...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow programmatic access to AF audit trail for report generation

As a PI admin I would like to be able to generate reports based on the AF audit trail.  Currently the audit trail can be accessed manually using the audit trail utility tool and manually output a file, though I would like to be able to query ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Customized PI System Explorer view

Currently PI System Explorer views lots of stuff that is not used by most users (ports, models etc.) also, there are some things that may depend on decisions of particular client - for example, I don't want my users to use Formulas. I suggest to p...
Czuprynski over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status