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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    Write a KB article that explains confusing PI terms

    OSIsoft uses many synonyms and similar-sounding terms. This can get confusing, especially for beginners. Please write a KB article outlining some of these confusing terms. For example: Archived = historized = stored/saved in PI Backfill = backdate...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 3 No status

    Implement a bulk write method for PIPointList

    As an AF SDK developer, I would like to be able to write values in bulk to a list of PIPoints. Currently there is only PIPoint.UpdateValues() which allows multiple values for a single PIPoint object to be written in a single request. I would like ...
    John Messinger over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 2 Completed

    Add mechanism to detect connection loss with PI Web API Channels

    Add mechanism to detect connection loss with PI Web API Channels PI Web API Channels allows to sign-up for updates (new values) of selected Data Items identified by their Web ID. PI Web API Channels is based on websockets. The client does not act...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 2 Completed

    UniInt should include a test mode for all interfaces that collects data but does not send it to PI.

    This functionality would allow users to test the connection to the data source and inspect the data that is retrieved without sending it to PI. That data might be written to a text file, for example. This would allow users to verify settings and ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

    PI to CONNECT for digital tags: Make it easier to distinguish real digital state values vs system digital states

    PI to CONNECT creates a CONNECT stream type for PI digital tags with a property called DigitalStateName. This property includes both the "real" value of the tag's digital state set, but also the System Digital State (No Data, Error, Comm Fail, etc...
    Elizabeth McErlean over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

    Restrict the "Root path" field on the "Current Value" menu to only display PI Data Archive servers previously connected to this machine.

    We have 12 PI Data Archive Servers and another 12 PI AF Systems. I currently have to sort through a list of 124 "servers" when I setup to collect some PI data. Many of the 124 "servers" are old servers no longer in use or databases under PI AF Sys...
    DavidMFairchild over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

    Support delayed startup of queries for GE HabConnect Connector

    In some EMS configuration it is possible that to connect and query sampler before habitat database has initialized. This can cascade throughout PI -- analytics set to watch for minimum values, applications looking for status changes, etc. It is al...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

    Allow data update for future PI Points in PI OPC DA Server

    When a future pi point is published in the OPC DA server current value matches PI DA current value but it does not update new events on the PI DA You need to create another group in an OPC client or close the connection and reconnect to see new va...
    asanzacedo over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

    Automatically apply Excel data validation to PI Builder columns

    Currently, if there is a problem in the user's PI Builder sheet, the user will not know until they click on "Publish" and see the error messages. To help avoid this, consider having PI Builder apply Excel's data validation feature to columns that...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 Declined

    Allow "capture values" for Event Frames created by PI UFL Connector

    When values of an Event Frame are captured, AF itself stores their values. When values are not captured, AF stores the PI Point information and the client will need to connect to the PI Data Archive. By capturing values, we can improve manageabil...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status