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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    Auto-Update enabled by default on Excel startup

    Add a setting to turn on the "Auto-Update" button on Excel startup automatically. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26678OSI8.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

    Time Zone Specification to Represent Data in

    Letting the customer specify the time zone in which to represent the data would be a nice enhancement. Note: This was previously Enhancement 2729OSI8.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 10 No status

    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

    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

    Support move/rename of Attributes specified by path in Asset-based Calculation expressions

    Currently, if an element or attribute is moved or renamed, any Asset-based Calculations in PI Vision with an expression that uses an AF path containing that element or attribute will return "No Data" as it is no longer be able to find that attribu...
    Jason Lu 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Analytics / Calculations 0 No status

    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

    Use a calculation in another calculation

    Currently, you cannot use a calculated variable in another calculation on PI Vision. This complicates calculations because all operations must be done under one calculation.
    Navern Moodley about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Analytics / Calculations 1 No status

    DataLink features in Coresight

    To get the functionality of the extensability, as for example spider chart or other charts, it is necessary to get timed data series in Coresight. For example hourly values with the syncronized timestamps from a series of PI tags. In general i wa...
    Hobbe almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Analytics / Calculations 1 Declined