CONNECT feedback portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about CONNECT products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the CONNECT 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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    Be able to reorder components

    As an AVEVA Adapter gets used more, some components might need to be added or deleted, which can leave the component list in a suboptimal order. Please allow the components to be reordered, ideally by clicking and dragging for the most frictionles...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    Do not have data entry where only 1 choice is allowed (e.g. component type when adding a new component)

    In the AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility, when you try to add a new component to an AVEVA Adapter, you get a dropdown menu for the component type. However, there is only 1 choice: the AVEVA Adapter component type. The only required instance of t...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    For PI Points created by AVEVA Adapters, use the point class "base" instead of "classic" if the PI Point does not use "classic"-specific PI Point attributes

    When an AVEVA Adapter creates a new PI Point, it always uses the point class "classic", even if none of the attributes that are specific to this point class are ever used. Instead, AVEVA Adapters should create PI Points using the point class "base...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Be able to configure history recovery through the AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility for AVEVA Adapters that support history recovery (e.g. OPC UA, RDBMS)

    This is item #3 of this suggestion, posted as its own suggestion.
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    Be able to configure the Client Failover Service through the AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility or a separate optional GUI program

    The Client Failover Service suffers from the same issues as AVEVA Adapters before the AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility was released: you need to constantly check against the documentation and make sure that you spelled parameters and their valu...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    Design some UI for PI Adaptors

    Design some UI for PI Adaptors, so it will be user friendly to configure the data source or data reading configurations etc. It is really hard to configure or troubleshoot an issue in PI Adaptor without Proper UI.
    Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 2 No status

    Allow Adaptors to run in Docker

    Allow Adaptors to run in Docker. This would ease the roll-out and management of adaptors. Also new Cisco switches now allow Docker instances on the switch, limiting the need for extra hardware.
    Erik Prins over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 Already exists

    Configuration reconnection (retry) time on the adapter

    OPC UA adapter takes 5min by default to reconnect to a load balanced PI Web API pair which failed over.
    Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

    Add parameter to limit the amount of data retrieved in a Get Updates request - Change broker

    Add a parameter that we could pass in the Get Updates request to set a maximum number of events returned since the bookmark https://docs.aveva.com/bundle/connect-data-services-developer/page/api-reference/change-broker/change-broker-updates.html
    Guest about 1 year ago in Streams / Sequential Data Store (SDS) 0 No status

    Make the "Manage Secrets" window resizable

    This should allow users to make the "Description" and "Value" columns wider and see their full values without having to make other columns narrower.
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status