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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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Write a KB article that explains confusing PI terms

OSIsoft uses many synonyms and similar-sounding terms. This can get confusing, especially for beginners. Please write a KB article outlining some of these confusing terms. For example: Archived = historized = stored/saved in PI Backfill = backdate...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 3 No status

Allow for feedback on KB Articles

Currently, I can upvote or downvote, but not give any text feedback on a KB Article. I'd like to share feedback such "please including how to check the archive flag" or "error XYZ would also be resolved by this KB Article". This is possible in the...
Kelsey Bobeck over 1 year ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 0 No status

Move known issues out of My feed and as a separate item under Quick Links

Turning on known issues for My Feed is an utter fail. Just provide it as a quick link and add filters by product
Guest over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 0 No status

Automatically check for updates

Please add a feature that automatically checks for updates when PI DataLink starts up. This way, the updates come to the user rather than the user having to check if there is an update.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 Declined

Replace the screenshot of a table with an HTML table in the "Initialization File Structure" article

https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01951 This article features an excessive amount of text in screenshots. For the code, you could argue that the screenshots were needed to capture some of the highlighting and s...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 0 No status

***DELETE THIS SUGGESTION*** Update the "piadmins vs piadmin" KB article

https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=piadminsvspiadmin Changes to make: Change "then" to "than" Change the Live Library link to: https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/built-in-pi-identities-users-and-groups...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 1 No status

dataset

Looking for Dataset for all pipe Fittings
Guest over 3 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 0 No status

Include Option to Install Legacy Add-Ins Via Installation Wizard

Many users utilize the legacy add-ins for DataLink through VBA code.  Starting with DataLink 2016, the add-ins are not installed by default and so upgrades and new installations can prevent existing spreadsheets from working if additional ste...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined

PI DataLink service for PI Server

To minimize the amount of data that is returned from the PI Servers, and to make the PI DataLink computers more like thin clients, consider making a service for the PI Servers (PI Data Archive + PI Asset Framework) that handles PI DataLink request...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined