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Improve Error Dialog When Element Attribute Path Length is too long

e.g Current Value, When Selecting an attribute whose path length > 255 characters, throws an Excel Error "Unable to Set the FormulaArray Property of the Range Class". 255 characters is an excel limitation, Datalink should not allow such a selec...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

Interpolate Step=On Tags

There are tags that should be kept as Step=On but there is certain cases in which someone should be able to easily bypass the typical interpolating rules (interpolation that follows the step parameter) and allow for a true interpolation between va...
Matt Voll over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No status

Expand Healthpoint (Device Status) Information of the PI Adapter for Modbus TCP from Component to "Device" Level

When configuring PI Modbus TCP adapter you first define a component level and under this type you define your different devices/machines/sensors. In case of a broken connection to one of the devices the healthpoints currently only deliver the stat...
Mario Amrhein about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 0 No status

Add support for all the AFData methods as well as the generic getvalues method

Please add total support of using DataLink to pull data with all the methods available to AFData.  In my commercial organization we release software to aid our customers in retrieval of PI data.  We can't release software in which the AF...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Support for "RTU over TCP" for Modbus Adapter using MBAP header

Challenge: Today, the PI Adapter for Modbus TCP does not natively support " RTU over TCP". It does support Modbus TCP, so as long as the "bridge" properly converts Modbus RTU to Modbus TCP (including the MBAP header), it should work fine. If the b...
Hans-Otto Weinhold over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 0 No status

Being able to Copy / Paste or "Copy Drag" calculated data strings

Be able to drag a cell's calculated data formula with using cell references should speed up report creation. Currently, have to create new calculated data each time, fill each cell requirement instead of copying down.
Lucas Renz over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Fetch previous change of value (and its timestamp) from compressed data

It is valuable to extract the previous change of value and its timestamp without full dump of compress data. If that value could be specified, the feature is even more usefull. Example: a time series has the state of an alarm and the current value...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Allow multiple references to holding register for bit extraction

Given a 16bit integer holding register, in certain instances we only care for specific bits rather the integer value. Using the bitmap allows the selection of those specific bits but you can only reference the register once. i.e. In data selection...
Matthew Kishe almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 8 Future consideration

"Show value attributes" option for Current Value and Archive Value functions

Include a "Show value attributes" option on the Current Value and Archive Value functions.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Display a parameter tooltip (IntelliSense) when typing functions manually

Please add a tooltip or equivalent to show the arguments of the PI DataLink functions when you are entering the functions manually, similar to the tooltips that appear when you use native Excel functions.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined