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AVEVA™ Asset Information Management

Limitations in AIM-A

  • Last UpdatedDec 12, 2025
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The following table outlines limitations of the AIM Advanced solution:

Description

Value

Characters disallowed in IDs uploaded to AIM-A.

{,},|

Curly brackets, { and }, are replaced with round brackets, ( and ) respectively, when uploading IDs via the AVEVA Data Pipeline.

Characters disallowed in contexts uploaded through the AVEVA Data Pipeline.

", <, >, :, *, ?, \, /, ASCII characters 0-31, Windows reserved keywords.

Must conform to Windows file and folder name standards.

Characters disallowed in file and folder names uploaded through the AVEVA Data Pipeline.

", <, >, |, :, *, ?, \, /, ASCII characters 0-31, Windows reserved keywords.

Must conform to Windows file and folder name standards.

Characters disallowed in XML Data uploaded to AIM

  • Control characters (#x00 – #x1F except #x09, #x0A, #x0D)

  • Surrogate blocks (#xD800 – #xDFFF)

  • Non-characters ( #xFFFE, #xFFFF)

  • Compatibility characters (Characters with <compat> tags in Unicode)

Load Reporting Retention Policy

  • Load Reports are available from the last 60 days.

  • Load Reports older than 60 days but not older than 90 days are available on request.

  • Load Reports older than 90 days are no longer available.

Maximum file name length

120 characters

Maximum file path length (including file name)

420 characters

Maximum file size for 1D Registers

5 GB

Maximum length of Root Context in the Data Pipeline

15 characters

Maximum number of pages when viewing files in the Dashboard using the PrizmDoc Viewer

10,000

Maximum number of files that can be uploaded per transaction for Data Pipeline

1000

Maximum PDF file size that can be viewed in the Dashboard using the PrizmDoc Viewer

900 MB

Maximum size of 3D model files (with average complexity) for importing (tag scraping supported).

1 GB

Maximum size for RVM model file

20 GB

Maximum size for ZGL model file

9 GB

Maximum size of video files (mp4, mov, wmv, avi)

1 GB

Minimum screen resolution for viewing in the Dashboard

1024 x 768

Mouse-over Tag Highlighting

Tag highlighting on mouse-over is not supported for 2D file types such as xml (DEXPI).

This also affect other actions that are applied on the selected tag like Highlight, Select in View and Visual Report where the colour does not change.

Supported 1D file types (tag scraping not supported)

csv, json, txt, xml, xls, xlsx, tsv

Supported 2D file types (tag scraping supported)

dwg, dxf, dgn, docx, doc, pdf, ppt, pptx, svg, xls, xlsx, xml (DEXPI)

Supported 2D file types (tag scraping not supported)

jpg, png, dot, dotx, rtf, xlt, xlts, xltm, pot, pps, potx, ppsx, vsd, vsdx, vdx, odt, ott, fodt, ods, ots, fods, odp, otp, fodp, odf, odg, otg, fodg, dwf, html, htm, xhtml, xhtm, msg, eml, dcm, dicom, dcim, dicm, tif, tiff, jpeg, jp2, jpc, gif, psd, psb, bmp, dib, pct, pic, pict, wmf, emf, pcx, dcx, ras, pcd, tga, tpic, cal, cals, ico, cur, ncr, xwd, sgi, wbmp, sct, wpg, xbm, pbm, pgm, ppm, img, cut, etf, xlsm, mp4, mov, wmv, avi

Supported 3D file types (tag scraping supported)

dwg, dxf, nwd, ifc

Supported 3D file types (tag scraping not supported)

rvm, zgl

Timeout for reloading 3D models when focus on the Dashboard is lost or switching back to a tab in AIM - Advanced or Discovery

10 mins

Timeout for importing 3D files

20 hours (this allows for ZGL files of up to around 9 GB to be processed)

Timeout in the Dashboard for long running operations (for example, opening large files, expanding complex tree views, exporting large amounts of data, performing complex searches)

60 seconds

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