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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Asset Framework (AF)

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Show the reference arrow on child elements of a referenced element.

When you copy an element that has child elements the reference arrow only is visible on the parent. All children look like non referenced elements. This could be confusing in a large AF tree, referenced items that do not have the arrow could be mi...
BrentWebsterADM about 1 hour ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Copy paste issue for child attributes

On PI System explorer when you copy an attribute with child attributes, only the first child attribute get's copied as well and the rest is missing. This was working with PI System Explorer 2016 R2 SP1 whereas it does not with Version 2018 SP3 pat...
PhilippEven 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add IsExcluded('attribute') function to AF Analysis.

Add new isexcluded(attribute_reference) function to be able to easier distinguish between Tag/Attribute errors and excluded attributes. Currently it is quite tricky to filter if an attribute is in error due to data source error or an excluded tag....
PhilippEven 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

if then else in Analysis still checking/executing both parts

If then else clauses are often used for input filtering for our analysis in AF. We often face the issue that analysis cause errors although the part which should not be executed according to the condition is causing errors.Example: "if BadVal('att...
PhilippEven 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

Row/variable information to AF Analysis errors

When we built complex analysis and evaluate in PI System explorer we get general error messages without any information where the error occurs. This makes troubleshooting painful. Adding row/variable information would already help a lot!
PhilippEven 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status
417 VOTE

Ability to search for PI Points used by PI AF attributes

As a user, I want to be able to search for specific PI Points used by PI AF attributes, so that I can easily find where the PI Points are being used.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 32 Evaluating

Option to paste column names to AF table definition

Option to Paste column names in table definition. In the moment everything has to be put manually. Also sorting is painful. If we could just copy an array/list from Excel and paste here it would make the handling a lot easier. (Copying the table d...
PhilippEven 16 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Change default setting for new analysis templates enabling from True to False

When an analysis template is added or new analysis are created with PI Builder the default option is to "enable analyses when created from template" = True. This should be changed to false with an opt-in for automatic enabling. Users easily forget...
PhilippEven 21 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status
198 VOTE

Allow substitution parameters to be used in the SELECT and FROM clauses of the TableLookup Data Reference

As a user, I would like TableLookup Data Reference to be able to use substitution parameters to specify the column name(s) and table name for the SELECT and FROM fields respectively. This would allow for the use of attribute values like those from...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 17 No status
185 VOTE

Add more advanced string handling functions to the String Builder data reference

I would like to use some more advanced string functions such as Split, Len (string length), and even regex filtering to allow more fine grained control of how some input strings (such as attribute values or substitution parameters) are manipulated...
John Messinger about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 29 No status