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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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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

Notification Screenshot Custom URL

we're examining the new functionality of attaching screenshots to emails sent by PI Notifications. The problem we're having is that we would like to use an attribute value for the URL. This does not seem to be possible. In the configuration, only ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 1 No status

SMT: Add navigation from Current Values display to Tag Editor

Many times I have been in SMT and looking at current values.  But some of the values are not correct, I have to copy the name of the PI tag, go to Point Builder, either search for the PI tag or start to type the PI tag in search and then popu...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 3 Declined

Configuration as Code PI System wide

"As a business owner, I want to set up change control procedures where any change to the PI System, be it the data archive, asset framework, PI Interfaces, PI Connectors, or any other component is done through a change in source controlled configu...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

"Create Only" mode for AF Template Tag Creation

It's possible to inadvertently change the tag attributes for production tags if they are used with an attribute that has tag creation set. It would be safer if there was a lock that allowed new tags to be created, but blocked tag attribute changes...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Use digital states in AF instead of Enumeration sets

A customer thinks it is unreasonable to require all customers to recreate the linkage of a new attribute to a Enumeration Set that is a copy of the Digital State Set for the attribute’s linked PI tag. There should really be an Attribute “Value Typ...
Audrey Finken about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Maximum security should be the default for the PI Data Archive and PI System Management Tools

Maximum security by default would help encourage security best practices by: Making the best decision for customers that do not know or care about security "Rewarding" security-conscious customers with not having to expend effort to maximize secur...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status