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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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PI Web API OMF renaming of PIPoints without having to delete on API -> rename on PI-> readd on API

When we have an existing PIPoint with a given name, we can't rename it through OMF (which is a pity), requiring the operator of the system to delete the ExDesc from the point, renaming the Point in the PI Server and them readding them through the ...
Guest 14 days ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 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 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 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

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

GUI Front End for UA Adapter

The OPC UA Adapter is a replacement for the OPC UA Connector and should thus provide similar functionality by providing a GUI.
Jonathan Brutt almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 7 In development

change data capture, data change, data update support

For example, when changes are made via recalculation, provide a method to indicate data has changed.
Glenn Moffett 2 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Custom HTTP header

add functionality so will bepossible to configure the PI Adapter for OPC UA to include a custom HTTP header when authenticating requests to the PI Web API endpoint The request for this feature recently came up in a support case for PPC (Dev CR: CR...
Guest 10 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 Future consideration

Share Displays with External Partners

Ability to share a display of information (real-time & historical) with an external partner/company. Must support ability to secure and share specific displays with specific partners. It must be possible to share the display with an externa...
Guest over 3 years ago in Community Data Sharing / Display Sharing 1 No status

PI Adapter for OPC UA Array Support

As a PI System Administrator, I would like for the PI Adapter for OPC UA to support array data types from the OPC UA Server. A large amount of our data may be contained within arrays on our OPC UA Server, so we would not currently be able to colle...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 12 No status

Include buffering metrics in adapter health

In the OmfEgress component in adapter health the metrics are limited to DeviceStatus, and IO rate. Another key metric for this component is the buffering state. To keep it simple it would be useful to have the number of events in the buffer. This ...
Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status