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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    Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

    Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

    The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

    Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

    Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in

    Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in the PI tag search. Currently all filter conditions are AND. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26991OSI8
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 1 Declined

    Return the Values of Timestamp Data Items in Timestamp Format

    The values of timestamp tags or AF attributes should be formatted as timestamp in Excel by default. Currently they are returned as integers, and then users have to manually convert them into timestamps.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

    PI Datalink officially supports Excel 2024

    My customer is using PI Datalink with Excel2024 instead of Excel365 because policy prevents the addition or update of each person's Excel functionality. I would like to add Excel2024 to the PI DataLink Compatibility Matrix for these customers.
    Yusuke Hirao 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status

    Allow for a timeshift of certain tags, depending on process time delay

    To be able to delay some signals by x amount of hours would allow save tremendous amount of data handling into Excel. Some apps like Visplore offer that right at the display. I'm sure that the PI team can come up with a solution for that.
    Guest about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

    Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
    Dorin IACOB about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

    Allow converting compatible formulas to dynamic arrays on an entire spreadsheet

    Right now, it is tedious to convert an existing spreadsheet to use dynamic arrays since each formula needs to be converted one-by-one. It would be helpful to have a way to convert formulas in bulk.
    Jessica Rammo over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Have a consistent presence of a terminating \ in the PIHOME and PIHOME64 environment variables

    By default, PIHOME is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC" and PIHOME64 is "C:\Program Files\PIPC\". For new installations, please consider either having the terminating \ on both or removing the terminating \ from both. The current inconsistency can con...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status