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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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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

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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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 2 No status

Continue to support/modify the PI Trend Add-In for Excel DataLink that was in 2014 on into 2016 and beyond.

This add-in allowed for a trend to be created within an Excel Spreadsheet without first dumping the data to the sheet.  It was an easy trend to make and it updated with current live data when requested (F9). There is a work around to get thi...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 8 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status

Ability to search for Data Items on multiple PI Server and/or AF Servers

Allow multiple PI or AF servers to be selected when searching for Data Items. Currently, search allows only searching on a single server or all servers. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26673OSI8.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined

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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 11 Evaluating

Enable designation of logical relationship for multiple Attribute filters

Allow the designation of the logical relationship between multiple Attribute filters. Current filters are locked exclusively in an 'AND' relationship. It would be helpful to be able to set the relationship to 'OR'. For example, in searching throug...
RandyHawley about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status