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Data services 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 data services. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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Ideas

Support URI Builder attributes and make them clickable

Allow URI Builder attributes to be added to a transfer, then turn them into links in CVS dashboards. Even better if they can be used in text hyperlinks. That way you can jump from a CVS dashboard straight into a PI Vision display or some other web...
Guest about 2 hours ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 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 11 days ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

PI Adapters should handle good NULL Values like PI Connectors and submit to the archive

A PI Connector reading a Null value in good quality send it to the Archive A PI Adapter skip the value, this gives in the archive a wrong picture. please enable the PI Adapter to submit also Null values with good quality to the archive like PI Con...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

Support Events in Dataviews

I would like to support retrieval of Events within Dataviews and get this data into Virtual Tables.
Todd Brown 2 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Allow session persistence to support true QoS 2 data collection and backfill of events after a data source disconnection

It appears that regarding Session Persistence (persistent vs clean session), the Adapter hardcodes setting the Clean Session Flag for the generic data source (Sparkplug doesn’t QoS 2 nor session persistence) to true. This should be a user-defined ...
Daniel Lopez 9 days ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status
107 VOTE

PI Adapter for OPC UA should be able to write outputs to the OPC UA Server

The PI Adapter should be able to create a data pipe listener on certain streams (unsolicited reads) that would trigger the writes back to the OPC UA Server. This is useful when providing set points to the equipment without the need of establishin...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 9 Future consideration

Add option to view user's effective permissions or view CONNECT as user

For data sharing with orgs that are not PI users, they would have to be added to the existing org's tenant. In this use case it is difficult to verify that a user has correct permissions and can only see data intended for them without using a test...
Adam Bolin about 2 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Start/stop components to be retained on restart

Currently it is possible to stop a component for a running adapter. However, if the adapter is restarted the component will automatically start up. It would allow for extra control during commissioning, downtime, incidents, etc. to be able to disa...
Mike Horrocks 5 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Enable AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA to work with OPC UA Servers that only allow Dynamic Addressing and Virtual Browsing

Some OPC UA Servers have the concept of Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing. The UA Nodes do not exist in the OPC UA Address Space. Nodeids are created\added to the Address Space only when a Client makes a request for the NodeIds thr...
Guest about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Support for additional Complex Data Types for all Adapters

Request to enhance the Adapters to support more complex data types, specifically value/quality pairs. While some Adapters currently support geolocation and coordinate complex data types, they do not all support value/quality data types. In industr...
Derek Wong about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status