2025 Release Notes

Overview

AVEVA PI Vision 2025 (version 3.11.0) is a web server-based product that allows you to visualize, assess, and monitor PI System data using any modern web browser.

Expectations and limitations

SQL Database Connection Encryption Requirements

This release of PI Vision modifies the database connection settings to require an encrypted connection to its Microsoft SQL database. By default, this encrypted connection requires the PI Vision server to trust the Microsoft SQL Server's certificate. If your Microsoft SQL Server is using an untrusted certificate, PI Vision will be unable to connect to its SQL database after upgrade. A PI Vision administrator should navigate to the Configuration > PI Vision Database options on the Administration site after the upgrade is complete to verify that PI Vision can successfully connect to its SQL database. If needed, the connection security settings can be reconfigured there.

New features and enhancements

Display editing and process monitoring

• Sort assets in collections and dynamic symbols by value

  For collections and dynamic symbols, you can sort assets by a template attribute value, allowing you to see results in a customized priority order. For example, if the symbols in a collection each provide the temperature for a different asset, you could sort the collection by temperature to see the five assets with the highest temperature values.

• Tooltip configuration

  Each user can toggle tooltips on and off, allowing users to choose if tooltips appear when hovering over data items on symbols. With tooltips on, users can further choose to have the tooltips display data item descriptions as well as the PI Point paths for PI Point data reference attributes.

• Data item details and copy data item name

  A new Data Item Details pane lets you view detailed information about any data item that appears on a symbol. You can copy any of the information appearing in the pane to your clipboard. Additionally, if you want to copy only the datasource paths for each data item in a symbol to your clipboard, you can quickly do so by selecting the symbol then select Ctrl+C, allowing you to easily take data item context into other applications like PI DataLink.

• Ad hoc workspace enhancements

  Access the Ad Hoc Workspace from the homepage, via URL, or from a display, enabling a new way for users to interact with their PI Server data. New options include directly searching for data items in the workspace, URL parameter support, and the ability to share ad hoc trends via URL.

• Trend enhancements

  • Group traces together so that they use a shared scale, allowing you to easily compare traces of the same unit of measure or traces that are of the same attribute.

  • Add a regression line to any trace.

  • Retain cursors when switching from the display to the pop-up trend.

• Table enhancements

  • You can transpose the asset comparison table symbol, orienting assets as either rows or columns, providing an easier way to compare assets that have numerous attributes.

  • Improved label, alignment, and text wrapping options across all table symbols.

• Open links in the current window

  When you click links that automatically appear on displays, the default behavior was changed so that they open in the current browser tab instead of a new tab. For example, this new behavior applies to clickable events in events tables and whenever attributes have values that are links. However, you can choose to open these links in a new tab using a right-click context menu. Navigation links that you create manually still allow you to specify the default behavior regarding how they open.

• Restrict users’ ability to use calculations from the Administration site

  Calculations can be resource-intensive and may slow down your system if they are used excessively. Therefore, on the Administration site, now you can restrict users’ ability to create, edit, and execute calculations either globally or based on their AF identities.

• Event Details URL parameters

  You can use URL parameters if you want an event details page to open with specific options automatically applied instead of the default options. With URL parameters, you can specify whether the multiple scales or single scale option is applied, hide the toolbar, hide the sidebar, and more.

Display and folder management

• Home folder permissions

  You can set read/write/manage permissions for the Home folder, allowing administrators to create a curated Home folder experience.

• Unorganized area

  There is a new Unorganized area where displays are saved if they are not saved in a folder.

• Recycle Bin

  Deleted displays are moved to the Recycle Bin for easy recovery. Also, now you can select multiple displays and delete them all at once. You can select those displays individually or use the Shift key to quickly select a group of consecutive displays.

• Bulk update Manage permissions

  You can use the Display Utility to set the Manage permission across multiple displays at once. (The Manage permission was introduced to PI Vision in the 2024 release. It could not be assigned from the 2024 Display Utility, but it can now be assigned using the 2025 Display Utility.)

PI Vision Server Administration

• Cloud SQL Support

  PI Vision is compatible with Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

• Redundant Single Sign On (RSSO)

  PI Vision supports redundant AVEVA Identity Manager (AIM) servers with PI Server 2024 R2.

Resolved issues

The following items were resolved:

Known issues

Known issues can be reviewed in the Customer Portal. For instructions on how to display a list of known issues, refer to How do I see Release Announcements, Alerts, Known Issues, and Knowledge Articles relating to my products? To review open enhancement requests, refer to the Feedback Portal.

Security information and guidance

We are committed to releasing secure products. This section is intended to provide relevant security-related information to guide your installation or upgrade decision.

We proactively disclose aggregate information about the number and severity of security vulnerabilities addressed in each release.

No new security vulnerabilities were identified or fixed in AVEVA PI Vision 2025.

Known vulnerabilities and their mitigations for this release are listed in the following table:

Distribution kits

The distribution kit file for this AVEVA PI Vision release is AVEVA PI Vision_2025.exe.

Note: The MUI Language Pack is included in the distribution kit.