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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    Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

    This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 0 No status

    Provide examples that use PIPutVal and PIPutValX with Office Scripts

    According to the PI DataLink documentation, PIPutVal and PIPutValX should be used only in VBA and not in regular Excel formulas. However, Microsoft and its customers are progressively phasing out the use of VBA macros to address the security issue...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

    Reduce support for static ("Ctrl + Shift + Enter") arrays and drop support for unsupported versions of Excel

    This suggestion is a follow-up to the one linked below, so please read that first: Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays Currently, PI DataLink uses static arrays by default but gives the option to...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    PI System Connector with mode to synch AF Analysis and Notifications Templates

    As an equipment specialist working centrally, I wish to deploy my AF Element Templates including Analysis and Notifications Templates to my remote sites so I have them managed from a central location. This also insures that remote sites are using ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined

    Allow configuration option to export PI Tags to Excel separated by a row or column to allows for timestamp information

    My Customer, Southern California Edison, would like to have an option in Excel that would automatically include a blank row or column (depending on the output settings configured) so that they can export a few hundred tags, and then be able to req...
    Janelle Minich 8 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

    Replicate AF Analyses with PI System Connector

    I would like to have the option to replicate AF Analyses using PI System Connector with the option to mark the desired analyses for replication.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined

    Create a programmatic access layer

    Customers have been using DLResize in the VBA pidldialogs.xla project which is unsupported. It would be nice to create a programmatic access layer so that things such as DLResize can be done in a supported way. It would also be helpful to have pro...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 Declined

    Extend PI Data Archive time zone setting support

    Currently PI DataLink allows you to select the PI Data Archive time zone setting however this setting only applies to data items or expressions that contain either a PI point or a PI AF attribute that is a PI point data reference. If the data item...
    Guest about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

    Provide easier workflow to retrieve the recorded values for EF attribute

    As a DataLink user, I would like to see all the values of the event frame attributes during the start and end time using the Explore Events function so that I don't need to ask for the compressed values during that time range for each of the attri...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 2 No status

    Compressed Data and Tables

    Compressed Data should be able to (or have the option to) query multiple tags and return the results as a single table/array of information, instead of independent columns of data. Returning independent columns of data results in rows being mismat...
    Matt Voll about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status