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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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Ribbon icons should visualize the kind of data to be retrieved

Currently, the icons that PI DataLink uses in the Ribbon are just meant to look pretty and do not help the user understand what kind of data will be retrieved. Please consider making the icons more informative. My suggestion is to use sparklines a...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Customizable compression / exception rules based on Span

When using Connectors, it would be desirable to specify a rule to set up exception / compression based on the Span of a tag. For example: 1. Span <100 excdevpercent = 0.1% / excdev = 0.1 and comdevpercent = 0.2% / comdev = 0.2   ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Native support for PI Data Archive collective

"For Interfaces if we add a new member to the PI Collective, all other interfaces will automatically detect it, and start sending data. With PI Connector Relay 1.x, someone will have to remember to manually configure.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

Add 2 new PI Connector categories on the feedback website: "PI Data Collection Manager" & "PI Connector Relay"

The number of suggestions for the PI Data Collection Manager and the PI Connector Relay is building up, and they are currently all going under the "General" category. Please add new categories for these programs and reclassify existing suggestions...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Minify the PI Data Collection Manager's (PI DCM's) HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code

The code for the PI Data Collection Manager's web pages is currently not minified. Please minify it so that the pages load faster, especially on mobile devices, and so that the network traffic is reduced. To be clear, to avoid the extra processin...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Write e-terrahabitat log messages to the PI Message log

Certain information such as digitalsets that do not match the definitions in SCADA are only logged in the Windows Application log.  It would be extremely helpful if this information could be written to the PI Message log.  This would all...
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 1 No status

Allow case-sensitive filtering on PI Point Value in Search Dialog

PI DataLink 2017 added the ability to filter searches based on a PI Point's current value.   For searching on PI Point's with string values, it would be great if there was a way to do a case-sensitive search.  A ‘case-sensitive’ che...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Add a unit column for data item searches

In data item searches, it would be useful to have a column that shows the engineering unit or default UOM of the returned results. This helps assure the user that they chose the correct data item and confirms the data item's unit with the user.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Include Option to Install Legacy Add-Ins Via Installation Wizard

Many users utilize the legacy add-ins for DataLink through VBA code.  Starting with DataLink 2016, the add-ins are not installed by default and so upgrades and new installations can prevent existing spreadsheets from working if additional ste...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined

PI DataLink service for PI Server

To minimize the amount of data that is returned from the PI Servers, and to make the PI DataLink computers more like thin clients, consider making a service for the PI Servers (PI Data Archive + PI Asset Framework) that handles PI DataLink request...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined