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.


This page is for feedback specifically for CONNECT. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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    Adapter to failover when there is egress issue

    When connection to the datasource are all good for all the adapter failover members, but the primary adapter having issue connecting to the PI web API (egress) for example, adapter does not failover. Unlike PI Interface UNIINT failover, when there...
    Ee Sheing Lee about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 No status

    Native MQTT Publishing (Egress) to Support Unified Namespace (UNS) Architectures

    Description & Use Case: As the manufacturing industry shifts toward Industry 4.0 and Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures, data must flow seamlessly between all systems in a publish/subscribe model. The AVEVA PI System is exceptional at inges...
    Guest 7 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

    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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    Automatic Configuration Sync between failover adapters

    When adapters in a failover group, any changes to configuration need to be manually synchronised between the adapters. Without automation, this could lead to misaligned configuration causing data collection issues.
    Mike Horrocks 5 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Error handling for OPC UA Server nodes with "Null" data type

    Using a combination of Honeywell Experion OPC UA and the Aveva OPC UA Adapter, we have observed that when an instrument physically fails in the field or goes offline / stops sending communication to the Experion server, it may appear in the Honeyw...
    ChrisMcKee 9 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 Evaluating

    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 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter Configuration Utility 0 No status

    Edge Data Store Visualization

    Ability to have basic visualization of data from the Edge Data Store for local operations.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Visualization 2 Evaluating