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We can easily see client connections made to an AF Server using the Connections tab in AF Server Properties. It would be nice to have a similar functionality for databases so we can see how much traffic each database gets. Useful in the event a c...

Requesting the ability to be able to filter at BOTH the root level (parent attribute) and child level (child attribute) when doing a rollup analysis. If you have the same child attribute names under different parent attributes (i.e. Children: YTD...

It would be nice if the UOM field of an AF Attribute would accept substitution parameters. This way if an attribute is a reference to another, the UOMs could also be linked. If the UOM is updated on the source, it would also get updated in the ref...

PI AF attribute categories can be used in many ways, but the most visible way is that they are used to sort / group PI AF attributes in PI Vision. If PI AF attribute categories are used in other ways - this can result in confusing attribute groups...

PI AF Identities are medium to connect authenticated users to security privileges in PI AF However, they are also used as the instrument by which PI Vision users share displays. Unfortunately this means PI Vision end users are exposed to a number ...

Just like how you can pull up all the Derived Elements for a element template, it would be very beneficial to see all the attributes with Table Lookup references to a particular table. See proposed addition to the General Tab of an AF Table.

The current AF Server versions require running the AVEVA PI Server Integrated Install Kit in a machine to extract the Go.bat SQL scripts. This can be a concern in highly restricted or validated environments, where customer might not be able to run...

Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...

Add markup to include/exclude content in-between in notification formats? This would be a far more elegant and flexible solution vs. separate templates or using the global Message for Closed Notification. e.g. <openonly>foo</openonly> ...

I have three large customers who have experienced PI Data Archive performance issues when large numbers of tags are being created. Specifically, record locks seem to take an extra large time (e.g., more than 15 minutes) to clear, and data updates ...