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

    Add parameter "Max Monitored Items per Subscription"

    The connector for OPC UA includes a parameter “Max Monitored Items per Subscription”, which is very helpful in managing UA servers which may have limits on the maximum items per subscription. This parameter needs to also be available in the adapters.
    Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

    color blindness support

    For example color selection palette for event types and trend colour selection.
    Glenn Moffett over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics 0 Needs review

    Allow users to find AF element templates more easily

    As I add new elements to a data transfer, I want to easily find an element template by typing its first few letters or expanding the template tree (organized by inheritance). Currently, all I can do is scrolling down a list of templates, which can...
    Clement Dekeyser over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 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 7 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

    API to check Adapter buffer statistics

    We can check buffer statistics with PI Buffer subsystem (pibufss -cfg, qs) and also with PI Connector/Relay, to verify whether Buffer is healthy, events in queue and etc.Adapter does not has any API to check this.
    Ee Sheing Lee over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status

    Support Kerberos for adapters on Linux

    Adapters are supported on Ubuntu, which also provides support for Kerberos (https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/explanation/intro-to/kerberos/) Adding Kerberos support would increase the options for deploying adapters securely.
    Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Delete events in data services for the reload time period before doing a reload of a thread that creates events

    Currently if you reload a thread that creates events and sends them to data services, the system will not delete the events that are no longer applicable in data services before writing a new set of events. This creates duplicate events during the...
    Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics 0 Needs review

    Allow changing the owner of an OMF Connection using the portal or API

    "As an administrator or privileged user, I would like to be able to use the CDS portal or API to change the owner of an OMF Connection" The user who initially creates an OMF Connection is permanently the owner and any connection through this endpo...
    Sam Pride over 1 year ago in General / Security 0 No status