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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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Integrate with Excel Undo feature

If you make a mistake or overwrite information while working with PI Datalink information there is no way to undo it without deleting or recalculating the information completely.
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

configure the PI DataLink language independently of the Microsoft Office language setting.

"Beginning with PI DataLink 2022 it uses the Office language to display the localized functions." Because the customer’s organization operates globally, individual users may have different Office language settings. To maintain consistency, they wo...
Runpu YAN 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera Choconta about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Search ability in AF Client on more than just element.

It would be nice to be able to search anything when it comes to AF Client. If I wanted to search and find reference to all Motor Speed Attributes.If I wanted to search on where a tag 'Sinusoid' for example was referenced in:Attributes, Analysis', ...
BrentWebsterADM about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 No status

Rename "Compressed Data" to "Archived Data"

In the PI DataLink tab in the Ribbon, "Compressed Data" should be renamed to "Archived Data" since it actually retrieves archived data and not just compressed data. The icon should also be changed accordingly. Not all data in the PI Data Archive n...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Support DST Transition on Second Granularity in PI SDK

A user tries to retrieve date with timestamp 03-Nov-2018 23:59:59 (1 second before Daylight Saving Time beginning) in PI SMT, but the returned event has a timestamp of 04-Nov-2018 00:59:59. This is because PISDK timezone design is such that it can...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 Declined

Add ApplyToChildren option to PowerShell cmdlet AddAFSecurity

Cmdlet AddAFSecurity does NOT have an ApplyToChildren setting, causing me to need to add security to all sub-objects: https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-powershell/page/html/T_OSIsoft_PowerShell_AddAFSecurity.htm RemoveAFSecurity DOES have thi...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / General 0 No status

Convert incoming string data to float and provide division all in the same tag instead of a PE

OPC server is outputting data with the currency data type (VT_CY) and it needs to be stored in the float type.  As per the OPCtoCSV document, the OPCtoCSV tool/OPC interface invokes VariantChangeType in order to convert this currency value to...
jagdish.konathala about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status