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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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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 Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Octave integration with AF Analytics

Like Mathlab, Octave is a powerful free calculus software which is used commonly in machine learning. I think it could be a good idea to integrate this software with PI Analytics just for these purpouses and others like just make advance calculati...
Ferran Pruñonosa Cerdan over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined

Preview Results should remember the start and end time

As part of debugging, sometimes I use Preview Results (which is available from right-clicking on an analysis), make some changes, and then use Preview Results again. It would be useful if PI System Explorer would remember the start and end times ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 Completed

Shutdown states should not be written into the analysis output PI Point by default

There should be an easy way to change the default value of the shutdown flag for analysis output PI Points. Right now, the default value is True, which means my analysis will show a "Shutdown" value every time I restart my PI Data Archive. The eas...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 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 PI Analysis Service Performance for Non-Templatized Analyses

Instead of putting all non-templatized analyses in one group for evaluation, the PI Analysis Service should divide them up automatically according to some criteria. The goals would be: 1) Eliminate the need for many "one-off" templates that cause ...
Jaedyn Larson over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 Tell us more