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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    230 VOTE

    PI DataLink for Microsoft Office 365 online

    Support PI DataLink on Microsoft Office 365's web portal, Office Online (accessible via a browser). Note that PI DataLink already supports desktop installations of Office 365.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 29 No status
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    Provide DataLink functionality in a Google Sheets add-on

    A significant number of companies are moving from the Microsoft Office suite to "G Suite" (Google). This move takes customers from MS Excel to Google Sheets, and they would like to retain PI DataLink as a functional add-on.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 30 No status

    Begin the display names of all PI services with "AVEVA"

    Back when OSIsoft owned PI, all of the PI services began with "PI", and so they all appeared next to each other in the list of services, which is usually sorted alphabetically. However, after AVEVA bought OSIsoft and took over PI, any new PI servi...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Allow managed service accounts to be specified for each service during installation

    There are KB articles that talk about how to switch the services of the PI Server install kit to use managed service accounts and grant them the appropriate permissions: https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/en-US/knowledge/details/000098101 htt...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

    Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

    Please test and certify SQL Server 2025 for PI AF and PI Vision

    Please test and certify SQL Server 2025 for PI AF and PI Vision
    Guest 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Official testing/support for application virtualization

    Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

    Add relevant windows service dependency via installer.

    Following KB01345 & 000036461 we have to manually add dependency where applicable. Please consider adding similar service dependency than we have via PI ICU for new interface (depend on pibufss): - AFService depend on relevant MSSQL$ service ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 No status

    PI DataLink installation: Do not require permission changes on registry keys

    The registry key permission changes in this KB https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=DataLinkregistryediterror-PISDKAccessDenied should be applied by the PI DataLink installer. It is not normal that software needs ma...
    Peter Belmans almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 No status

    PI Datalink officially supports Excel 2024

    My customer is using PI Datalink with Excel2024 instead of Excel365 because policy prevents the addition or update of each person's Excel functionality. I would like to add Excel2024 to the PI DataLink Compatibility Matrix for these customers.
    Yusuke Hirao over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status