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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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Program objects (BACnet object type 16) also bought through by the connector

The program object description is often very useful to understand what the various object instances relate to. At our site the description holds the Asset designation and that would allow correct assignment of the analogue and binary object instan...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in

Allow users to choose to AND or OR each filter condition in the PI tag search. Currently all filter conditions are AND. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26991OSI8
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 1 Declined

Return the Values of Timestamp Data Items in Timestamp Format

The values of timestamp tags or AF attributes should be formatted as timestamp in Excel by default. Currently they are returned as integers, and then users have to manually convert them into timestamps.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

Log device information when the Connector receives errors from a device

Currently the Connector logs when it receives errors, but does not print information that can be used to determine which device is reporting the errors. We currently need to perform a wireshark trace to look at the individual packets to determine...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Distribute-Broadcast-To-Network broadcast for Discovery Tool and Connector

When running the discovery tool from a subnet with no BBMD to query BACnet devices on a separate subnet, it seems like the auto discovery tool is seen as a ‘foreign device’, so the devices do not respond correctly. When analyzing a Wireshark trac...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 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