AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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PItoPI: Exception reporting is bypassed without /SN parameter

The PI to PI interface bypasses exception reporting when moving data from source to destination PI server. The alteration to the PI to PI architecture should be rectified in the next update of the PI to PI interface. There is an existing KI for th...
Timothy Grindstaff 5 days ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface No status

Add a parameter to disable NTLM authentication

On the "Health endpoints parameters" page of the documentation of any AVEVA Adapter, it states that Negotiate (i.e. try Kerberos first and fall back to NTLM if that fails) will be used if a username/password pair and a clientId/clientSecret pair a...
Kenneth Barber 37 minutes ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General No status

Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
Kenneth Barber about 1 hour ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 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 about 3 hours ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos No status

Remove code for static ("Ctrl + Shift + Enter") arrays and drop support for unsupported versions of Excel

This suggestion is a follow-up to the one linked below, so please read that first: Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays Currently, PI DataLink uses static arrays by default but gives the option to...
Kenneth Barber about 5 hours ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions No status

Allow multiple instances of an AVEVA Adapter to exist on the same server without using Docker

Currently, there can be only 1 instance of a specific AVEVA Adapter on each server if Docker is not used. However, within that instance, multiple components and data sources can be configured. This is convenient, but then the service account for t...
Kenneth Barber about 6 hours ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General No status

Show Member of the collective each PIVision user is connecting to

It would be very beneficial when troubleshooting to know what member of a PI Data Archive collective a specific PIVision user is connected to. To have that visible from PIVision itself without having to go and dig into the PI Data Archive logs.
Eduardo Hernandez Davila 3 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Administration No status
596 VOTE

Print a display as a report

Be able to print a display to be used as a 'report'. Include printing / saving as a .pdf. Consider an option to print the colors so it looks good on white paper.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Reporting No status

Use UUIDs for PI Vision Display IDs

PI Vision currently uses sequential IDs for displays.When migrating multiple PI Vision displays between servers, they must be migrated as a group using PI Vision Display Utility to preserve navigation links, due to possible display ID conflicts be...
Masashi Yamashita 6 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Display Management / Displays Page No status

Enhanced View Configuration Transparency & Editing

This proposal introduces an improved, human-friendly way to visualize, export, and manage view configurations, making them more transparent, consistent, and easier to work with. The enhancement provides full visibility into trigger definitions by...
Guest about 2 months ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics No status