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

Return Annotations in Current and Archive Value Functions

Current Value and Archive Value does not return Annotations. It should not return anything for interpolated. But it can return annotations for the other retrieval modes. For auto mode, it may need to detect whether the tag is a step tag and enable...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

PI DataLink Time Filtered Function should be as accurate as the results given by an equivalent Analysis.

For example: Time Filtered in DataLink with: 'sinusoid>98' Start Time: Y End Time: T Should give the same result as: TimeGT('sinusoid','y','t',98)
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Populate child attribute in Asset filter Search - Attribute to display

Child attributes are populated in the Attribute value filters section of the Asset filter search but have to be entered manually in the Attributes to display section. Users not familiar with the AF syntax or AF hierarchy have trouble entering/find...
Marc-Olivier Baillargeon over 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 2 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Ability to use multiple attribute filters with an 'OR' condition with Explore Events and Compare Events functions

Attribute value filters in the Explore Events and Compare Events functions in PI DataLink are 'AND' conditions as documented in the doc topic Explore Events task-pane reference . It would be helpful to use multiple filters with an 'OR' condition i...
Zoe Altenberg about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

Improve Error Dialog When Element Attribute Path Length is too long

e.g Current Value, When Selecting an attribute whose path length > 255 characters, throws an Excel Error "Unable to Set the FormulaArray Property of the Range Class". 255 characters is an excel limitation, Datalink should not allow such a selec...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

Add support for all the AFData methods as well as the generic getvalues method

Please add total support of using DataLink to pull data with all the methods available to AFData.  In my commercial organization we release software to aid our customers in retrieval of PI data.  We can't release software in which the AF...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status