AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
Kenneth Barber 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming No status

Provide examples that use PIPutVal and PIPutValX with Office Scripts

According to the PI DataLink documentation, PIPutVal and PIPutValX should be used only in VBA and not in regular Excel formulas. However, Microsoft and its customers are progressively phasing out the use of VBA macros to address the security issue...
Kenneth Barber 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Reduce support for static ("Ctrl + Shift + Enter") arrays and drop support for unsupported versions of Excel

This suggestion is a follow-up to the one linked below, so please read that first: Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays Currently, PI DataLink uses static arrays by default but gives the option to...
Kenneth Barber 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions No status

Allow configuration option to export PI Tags to Excel separated by a row or column to allows for timestamp information

My Customer, Southern California Edison, would like to have an option in Excel that would automatically include a blank row or column (depending on the output settings configured) so that they can export a few hundred tags, and then be able to req...
Janelle Minich 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format No status

configure the PI DataLink language independently of the Microsoft Office language setting.

"Beginning with PI DataLink 2022 it uses the Office language to display the localized functions." Because the customer’s organization operates globally, individual users may have different Office language settings. To maintain consistency, they wo...
Runpu YAN 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format No status

Extend PI Data Archive time zone setting support

Currently PI DataLink allows you to select the PI Data Archive time zone setting however this setting only applies to data items or expressions that contain either a PI point or a PI AF attribute that is a PI point data reference. If the data item...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings No status

Improve Visibility for Automatic Task Pane

As user of PI DataLink, I would like the Automatic Task Pane to highlight the referenced cells in different colours that the functions (e.g. Sampled Data) are using. It helps to improve visibility and reduce confusion.
Willy Seah over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane No status

PI Datalink officially supports Excel 2024

My customer is using PI Datalink with Excel2024 instead of Excel365 because policy prevents the addition or update of each person's Excel functionality. I would like to add Excel2024 to the PI DataLink Compatibility Matrix for these customers.
Yusuke Hirao over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading No status

Disable the recalculation auto when filtering the result

The problem is that after the calculations of PI Data Link Functions, I want to review the results by applying Filtering to the rows, but as soon as I set up the Filter, Excel immediately runs the calculation again. I have to wait until the calcu...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings No status

PI System Explorer shows times in US-American format, despite Windows being German

My Windows UI is set to English for all text-matters. However all region formats (dates, comma-versus-period-decimal-symbol and so on is set to German) Most programs respect these settings. However PI System Explorer displays all date/time formats...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings No status