CONNECT feedback portal

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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.

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    Stream-level debugging

    As a PI System Administrator, I'd like to be able to trace values being received, and subsequently being sent by the Adapter, similar to PI Interfaces. Having the ability to trace/log timestamps and values for specific streams would greatly help ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Future consideration

    OMF should accept the use of special characters like / : @ ! + % < > ( ) when writing to PI WebAPI OMF endpoint

    The OMF 1.1 spec does not allow certain special characters that are indeed accepted in the PI Core system like these here: / : @ ! + % < > ( ) When OMF is used to write to PI Core via the PI WebAPI OMF endpoint, this hinders the migration p...
    Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

    Display created and modified owner and date and audit log

    With multiple users creating tables, identify the owner, track latest change and related dates. Display in portal who created or edited a virtual table and when (timestamp) it was created and last edited. Audit log could also be useful to track hi...
    Glenn Moffett over 1 year ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

    Adapters using Text parser be able to dynamically generate the stream name or ID based on fields of the text parsed

    This could be a good feature for any adapters that uses the text parser. MQTT, SDF, Azure Event Hubs. When using JsonPath or Xpath to parse a file or payload the stream name and stream id have to be hardcoded their value cannot be based on a the v...
    Randy Giguere over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    displayname/localname for identifier that excludes namespace and data type

    Example: OPC UA Server 'Name': 2.0:W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot Namespace: 2 Datatype: 0 Identifier: W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot OPC UA Server 'DisplayName': W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot OPC UA Adapter {Identifier} returns: 2.0:W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot Required stream name: W-H...
    Glenn Moffett about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

    Omit null rows from data view configured in narrow view

    Provide an option to ignore null rows and not write them to the virtual table (similar to the header option Accept-verbosity = non-verbose when querying a data view) An example of when this null row might occur. When an Asset in the data view does...
    Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

    Enable Adapter for OPC UA to use the Pub/Sub method

    Pub/Sub is proposed to be a more efficient and scalable method of transferring data using OPC UA. Allowing the adapter to access data in this way would increase the options for data collection, and allow the OPC UA adapter to be used in many more ...
    Mike Horrocks about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

    Support for the Galileosky Protocol

    Need an option for direct integration of Galileosky GPS tracking devices with the AVEVA PI System without third-party middleware. The devices primarily use the proprietary Galileosky binary protocol (TCP-based, port 20332 by default) for real-time...
    Guest 9 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 0 No status

    Improve throughput

    I am not sure if this is a limitation connected to the OMF, WebAPI, or https itself, but in the manual it is given that the maximum message size is 192KB. I am aware that compression is recommended and applied by default by the adapters. For the r...
    Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

    Permit non-protected references

    The secrets references is a very useful addition but they are only permitted for "protected" parameters. It would be useful to also create references for non-protected parameters. Using references for non-protected parameters would help with creat...
    Mike Horrocks about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status