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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    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

    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

    remote ingress to EDS

    Enable remote access to EDS OMF endpoint to support deployments where Adapter/OMF application is installed on different host/network to EDS because architecture must fit in with tiered networks for critical asset security. For example remote sites...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Ingress 3 Future consideration

    Enable Multiple PI to CONNECT agents for one PI Data Archive

    Aside from our main AF Server setup used for numerous use cases like energy, OEE, etc, we have created a second environment of AF Server / AF Analysis / SQL Server to isolate the monitoring of a critical process. We are still making use of a singl...
    Christian Leroux over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Better control and monitoring of usage

    As a CONNECT data services administrator, I want to track daily streams accessed by both individual users and applications, so that I can better understand the usage incurred by each CONNECT consumer. Additionally, I need the ability to allocate u...
    Max McKay about 2 years ago in General / Account Management 1 No status

    Support string builder attributes

    String builder attributes are incredibly useful for including helpful Asset Framework metadata and context. They are widely used throughout AF deployments, and this data is very helpful for downstream analysis and interpretation of AF data. The PI...
    Daniel Lopez about 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 3 No status

    Stop Virtual Table Refreshes or Materializations

    When attempting to do a Manual Refresh of an existing Virtual table with a known data gap or attempting to materialize a new Virtual Table in AVEVA CONNECT, have ran into the issue where the either option can run much longer than expected (days fo...
    Guest 3 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

    Allow files to be processed similarly to, or better than, the PI Connector For UFL (in particular, allow data to be manipulated before using or archiving it)

    The AVEVA Adapter For Structured Data Files is supposed to be the successor to the PI Connector For UFL, but they work differently enough that each can handle certain types of files better than the other. The AVEVA Adapter For Structured Data File...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Structured Data Files 1 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

    Have the option to discover new data streams, auto-select them, and save data retrieved for them, all with a single query to the data source, similar to PI Connectors

    Background + problem When PI Connector tries to save data for a tag that does not already exist (e.g. data for a new piece of equipment), it will create that tag automatically. This is very convenient, but it sometimes led to issues where data tha...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status