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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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Configurable default Attribute ConfigString

Right now, when you create an attribute in a template and assign it a Data Reference of PI Point, it defaults to a ConfigString of "\\%Server%\%Attribute%". %Server% has some known administrative headaches because what it populates as is dependent...
taterhead247 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 Completed

Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Improve version control mechanism to consider also PI AF Analysis & Notifications Elements

Improve version control mechanism to consider also PI AF Analysis & Notifications Elements: Background: When adding or removing an attribute to an Element in PI AF, the element's revision number is incremented (as expected) which makes the re...
Moshe Sabag over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Declined

Include the "Primary Parent" checkbox functionality under PSE's "Change Reference Type" dialog in PI Builder

In PSE, you can right click an element reference > Convert > Change Reference Type... and have the option to make your current element reference the Primary Parent via a check box. This functionality is not replicated in PI Builder. Thus, yo...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Include Windows Counters/OMF Health for Message Log Event Rate

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...
Mike Horrocks over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Correct pointDB_RemoveEmptySource behaviour or change Point Source Management

Hello, About the tuning parameter pointDB_RemoveEmptySource the following Article : https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01008 Indicates : Perform any of the following actions to trigger removal of empty point sou...
Lionel Gergaud almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

PI Server is taking a lot of resources to interpolate a value before the first archived value

In a rescent issue we faced, we discoreved that when you try to interpolated a value before the first archived value on a system with a lot of archive files, the system must read all the archive files trying to find a previous value for interpolat...
marc.cote 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Include a "Disable" option for Table Connections

Linked Tables can cause bad behaviors (freezes; attributes waiting for values) in PI System Explorer when the password supplied is no longer valid. The solution is to update the password, or delete the Table Connection if the new password isn't av...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Allow bi-temporal data archiving

PI DA Server should allow for more flexibility in terms of the format of archived data. A big advantage would be if PI could archive two timestamps per event. One timestamp will come from whatever the data source is (PI Interfaces, fiels devices, ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Create or Update PI Points and Reset to Template

Using PI System Explorer, it is possible to "Create or Update PI Points" in bulk across all elements or branches of elements. However, "Create or Update PI Points" resolves the substitution parameters of PI Point attributes. As a result, if you ch...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 Completed