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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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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

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190 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 No status
169 VOTE

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 27 No status

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

Auto-Update enabled by default on Excel startup

Add a setting to turn on the "Auto-Update" button on Excel startup automatically. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26678OSI8.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Provide easier workflow to retrieve the recorded values for EF attribute

As a DataLink user, I would like to see all the values of the event frame attributes during the start and end time using the Explore Events function so that I don't need to ask for the compressed values during that time range for each of the attri...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

Enable DataLink to display the timestamps of calculated attributes in EF

Enable DataLink (Explore Events) to display the timestamps of calculated attributes (e.g. maximum, minimum) of an Event Frame. Currently only the values are displayed. In PI System Explorer the requested timestamp is available. Reference to a for...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 No status

Option for PI Point Number Inserts instead of Tag Names - tag renames stop spreadsheets from working.

ProcessBook stores tags by their pointid. If you change the name of a tag, It will still show up in ProcessBook. We would like to have the option to store tags in Xcel by the tag number instead of the name. As an example, we are getting ready to ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status