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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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PI DataLink for Microsoft Office 365 online

Support PI DataLink on Microsoft Office 365's web portal, Office Online (accessible via a browser). Note that PI DataLink already supports desktop installations of Office 365.
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 29 No status
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Provide DataLink functionality in a Google Sheets add-on

A significant number of companies are moving from the Microsoft Office suite to "G Suite" (Google). This move takes customers from MS Excel to Google Sheets, and they would like to retain PI DataLink as a functional add-on.
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 30 No status

NLog for PI Batch Interfaces

PI Batch Interfaces 5.0 or later log messages to Windows Event Viewer, which can lead to them being quickly overwritten and making troubleshooting issues or performing root cause analyses more difficult. It would be great if they used NLog as othe...
Rafael Batista 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

PI Batch Interfaces (EFGEN) Reliability During Recovery Runs

The Batch interfaces currently handle recovery processes very unreliably which could end up stopping the whole AF server. We believe the stability of the interface running recoveries should be carefully handled to ensure the whole AF server enviro...
Moshe Sabag 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells. Note that hitting F9 will not reformat the cells if a change to the displaydigits is made. That includes if you change the tagname to a tag which has a different display digits attribute. Note: ...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

PI Batch Interfaces (EFGEN) Performance Counters Reliability

The Batch interfaces currently handle performance counters configuration extremely unreliably. To explain: Performance counters are not allowing naming convention to be applied and are forcing hard-coded tags naming giving rise to conflicts betw...
Moshe Sabag 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

PI EMDVB Interface should not use the STARTUP.dat to determine recovery start time when configured in Failover and running in RealTime mode.

Currently when the PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch (EMDVB) is configured for failover and running in RealTime mode, the interface will use a recovery start time (RST) based on the last time the interface was active. This results in the inter...
Bethany Jewett over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Planned

EMDVB Batch history query improvement to capture all rows for a batch

One of the queries of the EMDVB interface to the Batch History database are limited by the specific batch ID, but also the 'activatetime' and 'deactivatetime'. In our case this filters out 'Unit Alias Binding' rows, missing several updates for Uni...
Máté Haragovics 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Manual Data Entry Function May Be Useful with Macros Becoming Antiquated

Manual entry data function may be useful with macros becoming antiquated. Support for making annotations may be useful enhancement as well. Note: This was previously Enhancement 19290OSI8.
Somchai Limwongsaree about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Setting to allow the omission of error strings in Calculated or Filtered Results

Give the customers either an option or an application setting that allow them to omit error strings from function output. This would allow them to more easily chart results. Some examples of current strings that cause charting problems include, th...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status