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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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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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 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

Allow to change Connection Default Preference for all AF SDK applications

If the user wants his custom applications running on a particular client machine to connect to the secondary server of a collective, he could of course hard-code that. But that becomes impractical if there are a lot of custom programs or they are ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 0 No status

Export method for AFLibrary class

As an AF SDK developer, I would like to be able to export AF Server Libraries (https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/af-sdk/page/html/T_OSIsoft_AF_AFLibrary.htm) to .xml files or strings in order to easily share them with other AF Servers. An example o...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 3 No status

Datalink Search menu not intuitive

The Search menu in PI Datalink 2016 is confusing for users used to PI Tag searches elsewhere in the PI System. "In a row" and "In a column" are particularly confusing, as they suggest that searches are being performed within the row or column. Thi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Option to disable automatic connections to AF Servers

I would like the ability to disable automatic connections to specific AF Servers. Currently client applications (DataLink) are implicitly connecting to all AF Servers in the AF "KST". This results in very slow startup times for Excel. For customer...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Add Support for SharePoint Server 2016 to PI DataLink Server

Customer has a plan to upgrade their SharePoint Server to 2016 but currently it's hold off and pending on whether it will be supported by PI DataLink Server.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 0 Declined

For compressed data, have the option to return the tagname (for example, similar to how the count is returned at the top).

If multiple tags are selected for 1 compressed data function, it is difficult to determine which data is associated with the tags. On behalf of Elizabeth Metzler elizabeth.metzler@enbridge.com
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

PI System Explorer - The TAG Search option should display the tree path of the located element.

This would allow for quicker localization of the element where the tag is located, facilitating the modification of the configuration, as well as performing analysis recalculations and time series data visualization.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 0 No status