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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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191 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

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells. Note that hitting F9 will not reformat the cells if a change to the displaydigits is made. That includes if you change the tagname to a tag which has a different display digits attribute. Note: ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

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

Time Zone Specification to Represent Data in

Letting the customer specify the time zone in which to represent the data would be a nice enhancement. Note: This was previously Enhancement 2729OSI8.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 10 Evaluating

Avoid necessary registry correction after Click To Run Office update

At our company the unit responsible for deploying software knows about the article KB01529 (Errors with PI DataLink when updating or upgrading Click To Run Office). But they state: According to OSIsofts problem with PI and Office 365 click to run...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 Planned

Create a programmatic access layer

Customers have been using DLResize in the VBA pidldialogs.xla project which is unsupported. It would be nice to create a programmatic access layer so that things such as DLResize can be done in a supported way. It would also be helpful to have pro...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 Declined