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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.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Continue to support/modify the PI Trend Add-In for Excel DataLink that was in 2014 on into 2016 and beyond.

This add-in allowed for a trend to be created within an Excel Spreadsheet without first dumping the data to the sheet.  It was an easy trend to make and it updated with current live data when requested (F9). There is a work around to get thi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 8 Declined

Provide support of Element Attribute Value Retrieval Method by Time Not Supported when retrieving sampled data with a Time interval provided

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined

Add calculation options to Calculated Data to match PSE

As an end user, I would like to choose calculation options other than time-weighted and event-weighted so that I can override the default processing of continuous or discrete. This functionality is currently available in PI System Explorer | Time ...
Jeremy Roberts over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined

Return Annotations in Current and Archive Value Functions

Current Value and Archive Value does not return Annotations. It should not return anything for interpolated. But it can return annotations for the other retrieval modes. For auto mode, it may need to detect whether the tag is a step tag and enable...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

PI DataLink Time Filtered Function should be as accurate as the results given by an equivalent Analysis.

For example: Time Filtered in DataLink with: 'sinusoid>98' Start Time: Y End Time: T Should give the same result as: TimeGT('sinusoid','y','t',98)
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Improve Error Dialog When Element Attribute Path Length is too long

e.g Current Value, When Selecting an attribute whose path length > 255 characters, throws an Excel Error "Unable to Set the FormulaArray Property of the Range Class". 255 characters is an excel limitation, Datalink should not allow such a selec...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

Add support for all the AFData methods as well as the generic getvalues method

Please add total support of using DataLink to pull data with all the methods available to AFData.  In my commercial organization we release software to aid our customers in retrieval of PI data.  We can't release software in which the AF...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

"Show value attributes" option for Current Value and Archive Value functions

Include a "Show value attributes" option on the Current Value and Archive Value functions.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Display a parameter tooltip (IntelliSense) when typing functions manually

Please add a tooltip or equivalent to show the arguments of the PI DataLink functions when you are entering the functions manually, similar to the tooltips that appear when you use native Excel functions.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined