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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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Update PI-AF install procedure to handle custom PIFD Naming

If hosting multiple AF DBs on a single SQL instance it is necessary to rename the PIFD default name to a unique name. For instance PIFD_<AFHostname> The current PI-AF install routine does not handle this situation - forcing a step to rename ...
thomasco about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

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

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

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

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

PI System Explorer Define Table tab should add new rows below the working row, rather than above

When defning a table in PSE the new row button adds the new row above the row I'm currently working on, it should go below the row I'm working on, since I logically want to add the next column in my table.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

Prevent PI-TAGs to be overwritten with new data for certain time range

Normally our TAGs are filled with data coming from an analysis (or PI-Equation) by snapshot-data or recalculated data. But sometimes we have to do manual corrections due to data loss and have to write data to this PI-TAGs manually. And we are not ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Limit the load of the PIRecalculationprocessor when backfilling

We had a few issues with key-users creating inefficient AF Analysis and starting a backfill over a longer time period. This resulted in a CPU load of 100% (caused by the PIRecalculationprocessor). The whole PI System got not responsive incl. PI Sy...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status