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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Rename "Compressed Data" to "Archived Data"

In the PI DataLink tab in the Ribbon, "Compressed Data" should be renamed to "Archived Data" since it actually retrieves archived data and not just compressed data. The icon should also be changed accordingly. Not all data in the PI Data Archive n...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Rename "Timed Data" to "Data At Timestamps"

When I see "Timed Data", I think: "Well of course my data is timed! But what does this button do?". "Timed Data" retrieves interpolated/archived values at the given timestamps. Please rename "Timed Data" to better reflect this. I recommend "Data A...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Replace "https://my.osisoft.com" in PI DataLink's "About" window to avoid redirects

I edited this suggestion. This suggestion was initially to change https://techsupport.osisoft.com in PI DataLink's "About" window to https://my.osisoft.com to avoid the redirect of the former to the latter. However, now that the OSIsoft website is...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Rename "Time Filtered" to "Condition Time"

"Time Filtered" was meant to be interpreted as "Time [Spent] Filtered", but it can easily be misinterpreted as "Time[-]Filtered" (i.e. filtered by time, i.e. Compressed Data). Please rename "Time Filtered" to "Condition Time" so that the name bett...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 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 1 day ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Ribbon icons should visualize the kind of data to be retrieved

Currently, the icons that PI DataLink uses in the Ribbon are just meant to look pretty and do not help the user understand what kind of data will be retrieved. Please consider making the icons more informative. My suggestion is to use sparklines a...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status