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.


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    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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 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

    Continue to support/modify the PI Trend Add-In for Excel DataLink that was in 2014 on into 2016 and beyond.

    This add-in allowed for a trend to be created within an Excel Spreadsheet without first dumping the data to the sheet.  It was an easy trend to make and it updated with current live data when requested (F9). There is a work around to get thi...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 8 Declined

    Ability to search for Data Items on multiple PI Server and/or AF Servers

    Allow multiple PI or AF servers to be selected when searching for Data Items. Currently, search allows only searching on a single server or all servers. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26673OSI8.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

    Enable designation of logical relationship for multiple Attribute filters

    Allow the designation of the logical relationship between multiple Attribute filters. Current filters are locked exclusively in an 'AND' relationship. It would be helpful to be able to set the relationship to 'OR'. For example, in searching throug...
    RandyHawley almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status

    Add some options to the "Edit Search Criteria" in PI Vision

    Add some options to the "Edit Search Criteria" in PI Vision: The first option would be in the asset type filed. When searching according to the value of asset attributes, the customer would like to be able to specify the realtion between the selec...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Search 1 Declined

    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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status