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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    Root Element should be added to the transfer

    When we create a transfer from PI AF there is a way to select a Root Element to start the search. However the root element from where we start the search is not added to the transfer. Ideally we would be able to add the root element into the trans...
    Fabio Dani 10 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 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 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 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 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 0 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 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

    Reduce support 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 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Ability to control PI Vision time series symbols timerange based on attribute value

    Possibility to control PI Vision time series symbols (trend/table) values based on attribute value formula for its time range duration.
    Eduardo Miller 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 0 No status

    Feature to list shared AF Identities and their permissions for PI Vision displays, reflecting inheritance from folders.

    We have been using PI Vision Display Utility and the sample SQL script to list shared AF Identities and their permissions for PI Vision displays, in order to verify whether the permission settings are appropriate and to check for the presence of p...
    Misato Takahashi 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Reporting 0 In development

    Context Switching on Elements at any point in AF hierarchy

    I have Sites - Units - Mas Balance in the hierarchy. I can context switch on Sites and Units, but not filter displays that how unit data to exclude anything not within the Mass Balance element or below. Filtering by a sub element, like Mass Balanc...
    Kaitlin Peraino over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Display Management / Displays Page 0 No status

    Add support to schedule AF table lookups at precise times

    I need more precise control over the timing of table lookups in AF, specifically the ability to schedule them at exact times (such as midnight) rather than relying on the current minimum refresh interval mechanism. AF table connections currently s...
    Janelle Minich over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

    Delineate between AF server sources in Search Criteria pane under "Database" dropdown

    There is currently no quick and easy way to know which AF server is being referenced in the Database dropdown within the Search Criteria pane for a collection. This would help us reference events on a particular AF server as needed and keep us fro...
    Dylan Boylan over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Display Management / Displays Page 0 No status