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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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Show Data Time Zone

When returning data have an indicator of the data's timezone. Other than in setting as that only indicator future pulls.
Mike_Wray over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Stay with RAD View

RAD view is easier to use for troubleshooting.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Datalink tab opens when click on cell

When users click on any cell, it opens the tab on the right hand side and causes confusion. Setting it to manual opening will be easier to work with Excel page, have more space, and avoid confusion.
Gilbert Nassif over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 3 Already exists

I need to know how to change the chart from meters to feet.

Hello this is my first time to start working with Pi. I have a customer that he wants to see the distance not in meters but in feet. How I can reflect the chart the calculation. we have the data coming in meters, but I need to show the view in fee...
Soraya Lopez almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

Ribbon icons should visualize the kind of data to be retrieved

Currently, the icons that PI DataLink uses in the Ribbon are just meant to look pretty and do not help the user understand what kind of data will be retrieved. Please consider making the icons more informative. My suggestion is to use sparklines a...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

AMI Interface: allow meter data to be writable to PI Point attributes

Synced to PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/29455 Currently, meter data can only be written to static attributes. Historizing the meter data may be useful if there are expected changes that should be monitored.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

Allow Buffer to communicate with other buffer

Currently the PI Buffer Subsystem only has the capability to speak directly with the Data Archive. This setup can have a negative impact on your Cyber Security setup as you are not able to leverage the DMZ between the IT/OT networks as it is desig...
Shaun Longworth over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

Allow case-sensitive filtering on PI Point Value in Search Dialog

PI DataLink 2017 added the ability to filter searches based on a PI Point's current value.   For searching on PI Point's with string values, it would be great if there was a way to do a case-sensitive search.  A ‘case-sensitive’ che...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Add a unit column for data item searches

In data item searches, it would be useful to have a column that shows the engineering unit or default UOM of the returned results. This helps assure the user that they chose the correct data item and confirms the data item's unit with the user.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Include Option to Install Legacy Add-Ins Via Installation Wizard

Many users utilize the legacy add-ins for DataLink through VBA code.  Starting with DataLink 2016, the add-ins are not installed by default and so upgrades and new installations can prevent existing spreadsheets from working if additional ste...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined