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

    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

    Follow PIMsgLog messages for the selected interface only

    The Follow PI Message Log button on the ICU follows the entire PI Message Log. If there are lots of interfaces or other services running and posting to the message log, the messages for the interface I have just restarted get lost. It would be use...
    AlistairTCO about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 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

    Improve error messages in PI ICU

    Currently if you attempt to create a service for a UniInt interface without a service ID you get an error message "Unknown Error" (see attached screenshot) Generally review and improve error messages to be meaningful but also allow the creation o...
    Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 1 No status

    Mention the PI ICU in the names of PI Generic Names DLL and PI Spt DLL in Programs And Features

    Both PI Generic Names DLL and PI Spt DLL are part of the PI Interface Configuration Utility, but this is not obvious from their names. This can cause confusion or waste time when an administrator decides to clean up or replace some PI programs but...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 1 No status

    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