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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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Setting for Update Interval That Can Be Specified at the Excel Workbook Level

The customer would like to see an Update interval that can be specified at the Excel workbook level. The use case is that they run multiple Excel spreadsheets at the same time but need different update intervals for each. Workaround: use VBA to ac...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

Only include the worksheet in a formula if a sheet other than the one the formula resides is referenced

Copying formulas from one sheet to another is tedious because you must replace the sheet that Datalink forces in with the sheet you paste into even if all referenced cells are all on the same sheet. Please make the behavior similar to how Excel do...
Sublette-Sanofi over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Restrict the "Root path" field on the "Current Value" menu to only display PI Data Archive servers previously connected to this machine.

We have 12 PI Data Archive Servers and another 12 PI AF Systems. I currently have to sort through a list of 124 "servers" when I setup to collect some PI data. Many of the 124 "servers" are old servers no longer in use or databases under PI AF Sys...
DavidMFairchild over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

"Show value attributes" option for Current Value and Archive Value functions

Include a "Show value attributes" option on the Current Value and Archive Value functions.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Display a parameter tooltip (IntelliSense) when typing functions manually

Please add a tooltip or equivalent to show the arguments of the PI DataLink functions when you are entering the functions manually, similar to the tooltips that appear when you use native Excel functions.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

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

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

Add Population Standard Deviation to Calculated Data as a calculation mode

As an end user, I would like to retrieve the population standard deviation in PI DataLink.  This option is available in the AFSummaryTypes enumeration: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-AF-SDK/html/T_OSIsoft_AF_Data_AFSummaryT...
Jeremy Roberts over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Add AFTimestampCalculation options to Calculated Data

PI DataLink currently uses Auto to return the timestamp.  As a power user, I would like to be able to choose between Auto, EarliestTime, and MostRecentTime for the timestamp returned for a value when a summary calculation is done. https://te...
Jeremy Roberts over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Percent questionable in PI DataLink

Add an option for PI DataLink functions (such as Calculated and Sampled data) to show "Percent Questionable" similar to the option available now for calculating "Percent Good".
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined