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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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Automatically detect new AF Elements and replicate them to CONNECT

As an AF Administrator, when I add new equipment to our plant and create new elements/attributes in AF to represent that equipment, I want that to be automatically replicated to CONNECT so I don't have to manually update a PI to CONNECT transfer t...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI to CONNECT 2 Future consideration

Select subset of element attributes in PI to Connect transfer configuration

Hello, In order to set-up a small PoC use case on our site, we wanted to transfer a "selected" set of AF element attributes into AVEVA Connect, in order to integrate it further with our Databricks environment. However, we are forced to transfer th...
Steven Bouillart over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Support of Event Frame Annotations

Sometimes, annotations in Event Frames are stored (e.g. when acknowledging/commenting a notification in PI Vision). This information should get replicated to CONNECT data services and be made available through CONNECT visualization services. The o...
Hans-Otto Weinhold over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

transfer element attribute description

For example for PI Point Data Reference and String value types.
Glenn Moffett 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Make the Agent recrawl the AF/PI Point database from scratch

Make the agent recrawl the AF/PIPoint database from scratch every now and again and update its cache if required. I think this is what PI Vision does, so it doesn't have these limitations.
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add documentation on architectural best practice

When setting up PI to Connect Agent transfers, we need to emphasize in the documentation that we recommend installation of the PI Agent on the same network, and in the same physical location, but not on the same server as the PI server it will be ...
Hege Dammen almost 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Bulk OCS stream edit tool (like AF Builder)

As a user I would like to be create and edit OCS streams in bulk. I would like something similar to AFBuilder but for OCS.
Guest about 4 years ago in Streams / SDS Explorer 1 No status

Launch history recovery data transfers in steps

When we want to backfill all data from a PI Server into CONNECT Data Services, this could be long and painful. A single data transfer to perform such for a few years may take weeks. It would be good to have the ability to specify an "endtime" alon...
Christian Leroux over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Enable Dynamic Transfer Selection Criteria that PI to CONNECT periodically re-evaluates

Have an option such that the transfer selection criteria are dynamically evaluated. Example: User selects AF root node Chooses "all elements" below that node Rather than explicit selection of add elements, evaluate dynamically so that as elements ...
Brian Deslatte over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status