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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

Support for UOM conversions

Being able to specify a UOM that is not the default UOM and having the value returned converted in all functions Note: This was previously Enhancement 25182OSI8
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status

Compressed Data and Tables

Compressed Data should be able to (or have the option to) query multiple tags and return the results as a single table/array of information, instead of independent columns of data. Returning independent columns of data results in rows being mismat...
Matt Voll over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status

can we ad normal files as hyperlinks to buttons from a local networkdisk

( example --> S:\pictures\tankfarm.jpeg ) with pi processbook it was possible , with pi-vision i didn't find yet !
Guest 8 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

provide datalink add-in functionality in WPS spreadsheet(WPS office)

WPS office is widely used for China customers, a significant number of local PI customers' company have WPS office instead of Microsoft office and they can't get benefit from the Datalink for now. Datalink add-in in WPS office will help them a lot.
Emily Ni over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

Allow for a timeshift of certain tags, depending on process time delay

To be able to delay some signals by x amount of hours would allow save tremendous amount of data handling into Excel. Some apps like Visplore offer that right at the display. I'm sure that the PI team can come up with a solution for that.
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Populate child attribute in Asset filter Search - Attribute to display

Child attributes are populated in the Attribute value filters section of the Asset filter search but have to be entered manually in the Attributes to display section. Users not familiar with the AF syntax or AF hierarchy have trouble entering/find...
Marc-Olivier Baillargeon over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
Dorin IACOB about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

Allow converting compatible formulas to dynamic arrays on an entire spreadsheet

Right now, it is tedious to convert an existing spreadsheet to use dynamic arrays since each formula needs to be converted one-by-one. It would be helpful to have a way to convert formulas in bulk.
Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Ability to use multiple attribute filters with an 'OR' condition with Explore Events and Compare Events functions

Attribute value filters in the Explore Events and Compare Events functions in PI DataLink are 'AND' conditions as documented in the doc topic Explore Events task-pane reference . It would be helpful to use multiple filters with an 'OR' condition i...
Zoe Altenberg about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status