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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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Generate error when header is misspelled

When editing PI Points, PI Builder does not return any error if one of the headers is wrong or misspelled. Simply, nothing is edited for that header and you  only find out at a later time when looking at the PI point. It would be useful if PI...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 2 No status

Use Excel tables to contain PI Builder data

PI Builder should use tables (the kind of table found in the Insert tab on the Ribbon) whenever headers are set up and whenever data is imported from the PI Data Archive or the PI Asset Framework. Benefits of PI Builder using tables: • filters ar...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 1 No status

Official testing/support for application virtualization

Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

Option for PI Point Number Inserts instead of Tag Names - tag renames stop spreadsheets from working.

ProcessBook stores tags by their pointid. If you change the name of a tag, It will still show up in ProcessBook. We would like to have the option to store tags in Xcel by the tag number instead of the name. As an example, we are getting ready to ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Enable DataLink to display the timestamps of calculated attributes in EF

Enable DataLink (Explore Events) to display the timestamps of calculated attributes (e.g. maximum, minimum) of an Event Frame. Currently only the values are displayed. In PI System Explorer the requested timestamp is available. Reference to a for...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 No status

Support named ranges to avoid issue KB01369

Excel places named ranges in formulas when a cell has a named range (instead of cell references). Excel formulas become more readable this way. Datalink should support defined named ranges too. Editing a Datalink array formula directly in Excel a...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 11 No status

Provide support of Element Attribute Value Retrieval Method by Time Not Supported when retrieving sampled data with a Time interval provided

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Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined

Disable the recalculation auto when filtering the result

The problem is that after the calculations of PI Data Link Functions, I want to review the results by applying Filtering to the rows, but as soon as I set up the Filter, Excel immediately runs the calculation again. I have to wait until the calcu...
Guest 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI System Explorer shows times in US-American format, despite Windows being German

My Windows UI is set to English for all text-matters. However all region formats (dates, comma-versus-period-decimal-symbol and so on is set to German) Most programs respect these settings. However PI System Explorer displays all date/time formats...
Guest 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Allow PI Builder to be used with Windows Store Application version of Excel

If Excel is installed as a Windows Store Application instead of a Desktop Application, the PI AF Client installer doesn't allow PI Builder to be installed. The reason for that is that it can't determine the Excel version through the registry. PI...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status