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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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217 VOTE

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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 No status

Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status

Official testing/support for application virtualization

Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

OMF: Time Range / Events / Spans Support

Support the concept of time ranges / events EFs / spans as a pre-defined type in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 7 Tell us more

Support an analogue to the "step" PI Point attribute when creating PI Points

Even though it will indeed be useful to be able to specify whether data should be retrieved in a step-wise fashion, for new PI Points (assuming you're writing data to a PI Connector), it's important to be able to specify that those tags should hav...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 In development

OMF: Swagger Specification

I think it would be beneficial to have a Swagger Specification for OMF similar to what currently exists for the PI Web API. As a programmer, I would like to be able to reduce startup time by having a pre-existing libraries that allow me to reduce ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 Declined

PI DataLink installation: Do not require permission changes on registry keys

The registry key permission changes in this KB https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=DataLinkregistryediterror-PISDKAccessDenied should be applied by the PI DataLink installer. It is not normal that software needs ma...
Peter Belmans almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 No status

Office365 support for PI Builder2018SP1

Will PI Builder2018SP1 officially support Office365 in the future? According to the knowledge below, currently PI Builder does not officially support M365. https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027755 https://cu...
S Tsukada over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status