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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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Preview and backfilling of event triggered analysis

For event-triggered analyses, interpolated values must not be used in the preview because this does not correspond to real-time execution. The interpolation calculates with values which were not available at the time of execution. For the preview ...
Wolfgang Sendl over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Have a consistent way to specify start and end times for new archives in PI System Management Tools

If you go to create a new archive, you can select "Single archive" or "Multiple archives for backfilling". If you choose the former and choose "Create archive with fixed start and end time", you can type the start and end times with precision down...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Analysis Searches - Allow Searching by 'Backilling'

In PI System Explorer under the Management tab, add a new search category in Analysis Searches to allow searching by Backfilling.  The Backfilling status column is always shown in the results window, but there is no way to search by this column.
Kenneth Reiss over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Provide option to pause a backfill

PI Integrator views can be backfilled using the Update Data or automatically with the PI Integrator Sync service. Having the ability to pause these backfills could allow users to resume them at a later time if their PI System is experiencing any t...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 No status

Ability to disable recalculation at the Database level in AF

Currently backfilling and recalculation are only enabled and disabled at the global and element level. There are instances where users of Asset Analytics, particularly when it comes to event frames, experience automatic recalculation upon a servic...
zachary cmelak almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Give a warning or more descriptive error message when trying to recalculate when output point has relative time set

Recalculation doesn't work when Relative time is set on the output point. Currently the error given is the one shown in Unable to manually backfill analysis from PI System Explorer: One or more output attributes do not support recalculation. Which...
Andrew Miu over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 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

Exclude certain event frames when performing backfilling/recalculation

As an asset-analytics user, I need a way for certain event frames to be excluded when backfilling an analysis . Use case: We have several event frames that are used as Logs/Shift books. Those events do contain a few static attributes. such as com...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined

Asset analytics: Function to automatically trigger backfill of dependent analysis

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/5243-asset-analytics-function-to-automatically-trigger-backfill-of-dependent-analysis It could be useful in newer versions of AF analytics to implement the following function: &...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 Completed

Initial value for HasValueChanged

When an Expression or Event Frame Generation analysis evaluates for the first time, the function HasValueChanged returns True even if the value has not actually changed. More proper behavior would be to default to false. The same holds true when m...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status