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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.

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.


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

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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

PI Connector for HART-IP / Support SECURE data transfer

I work with an global oil and gas company who is interested in collecting data using the PI Connector for HART-IP but their IT requires them to utilize SECURE data transfer. The current connector only utilizes STANDARD data transfer. The lack ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status

PI Data Collection Manager (DCM) High Availability (HA)

I would like to have failover or high availability for the the PI Data Collection Manager (DCM)
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

The PI Connector for WITSML should be able to perform history recovery and real-time data collection at the same time

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to configure the data collection mode for the PI Connector for WITSML for each data source so that I can perform history recovery and real-time data collection without having to host multiple installation...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

PI Connector for GE eTerraHabitat

As a GE eTerraHabitat user, I would like to have a nice way to choose which tags I want to create on the PI System, without having to force them through the Approved Changes folder on the installation directory of the Connector. It would be better...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 Declined

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