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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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 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Search TAG parameter by name

It is not intuitive how to easily search Asset and or Tag parameters by name in CDS.
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Add ability to handle exception point type changes 

Tags from data sources can change point type for whatever reason. When tags are initially added to the transfer, a point type for that tag is created. If for any reason, the point type changes, it will cause an error in connect and the transfer wi...
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add ability to select individual PI tags from UI 

We were able to get around this (with help of Glenn and Fabio) by utilizing hidden API endpoint which allow us to add Pi Tags by PointID. Customer had 3000 tags (no AF configured) in an excel sheet, attempting to search for these returned 15,...
Hege Dammen 9 months 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 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

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 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 2 Future consideration

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 5 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Understand replicated AF derived element template and elements and dynamically include

Customer has 1 base element template, with multiple templates derived from the base template. Data View is required to include all derived elements from that base element template Request is to dynamically update a data view based upon the assets ...
Glenn Moffett 10 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

The ability to define the number of decimal points for each parameter in the DataView column.

Most Values in a Dataview column (streams) will have a limited number of decimals both when viewed, calculated or measured. Very few Values on ANY type of measurement or calculation will have an accuracy of more than 6 decimals but often 1-2 decim...
Hege Dammen 5 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Use stream NAME instead of stream ID for the API call

Today hundreds of Users do simple queries to get multiple PI tags many times per day in their existing Cloud platform. Using the API call on CONNECT the users do not know the steam ID of a tag they only know the TAG NAME. As such, it is a signific...
Hege Dammen 5 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status