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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    Classic Mode for Adapters

    One of the big issues we have with adapters (outside of the lack of write capability) is not having the same control over creating and editing tags that we have with PI interfaces. As we talked about the adapter automatically creates PI tags or us...
    Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 5 Future consideration

    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...
    Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 No status

    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 almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 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 over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 No status

    Compression on CONNECT to PI related tags

    The tags use the default compression settings since they are automagically created through PI WebAPI if CONNECT to PI agent starts sending the transfer. This can mean that there is another compression applied to the tags. But as we are already cop...
    Hans-Otto Weinhold about 1 year ago in CONNECT to PI 0 No status

    Support "Data Handling" options for adapters

    The PI Interface for OPC DA can write IO timeout when it cannot get values from the OPC server. It would be useful to have the same option for the adapters so that stale data is marked IO timeout or similar, and automatically invalidates calculati...
    Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 1 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 10 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Support multiple PI to CONNECT Transfers with one agent, from a single Data Archive

    As a System Administrator in charge of deploying software at my organization, I would like PI to CONNECT to support multiple transfers from a single Data Archive, with a single agent so my Data Owners can manage the transfer of data without impact...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 1 No status

    Automated discovery on a schedule

    Enable Regular Discovery: While not continuous by default, discovery can be scripted or scheduled to run periodically for dynamic environments include this as a feature, so that automatic discovery and automatic addition of new discoveries can be ...
    Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status