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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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Add a unit column for data item searches

In data item searches, it would be useful to have a column that shows the engineering unit or default UOM of the returned results. This helps assure the user that they chose the correct data item and confirms the data item's unit with the user.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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 2 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined

Allow VBA to hide array formula Task Panes

Excel VBA code can invoke the resize/recalculate function on Datalink array formulae.  However this requires selection of the array and this pulls the appropriate Task Pane into view (unless the Datalink setting is in force that turns this of...
tinklerj over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 Declined

To add filtering by several templates

Element Template field doesn't accept multi-cell referencing - only the 1st referenced cell will take effect. Known Issue 91547 is exist. The issue is that not all attributes displayed in the attribute to display section on the Asset Filter Searc...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Auto update functionality for graphs will be very usefull...

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Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 0 Declined

Add Population Standard Deviation to Calculated Data as a calculation mode

As an end user, I would like to retrieve the population standard deviation in PI DataLink.  This option is available in the AFSummaryTypes enumeration: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-AF-SDK/html/T_OSIsoft_AF_Data_AFSummaryT...
Jeremy Roberts over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Add AFTimestampCalculation options to Calculated Data

PI DataLink currently uses Auto to return the timestamp.  As a power user, I would like to be able to choose between Auto, EarliestTime, and MostRecentTime for the timestamp returned for a value when a summary calculation is done. https://te...
Jeremy Roberts over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Percent questionable in PI DataLink

Add an option for PI DataLink functions (such as Calculated and Sampled data) to show "Percent Questionable" similar to the option available now for calculating "Percent Good".
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined

Eliminate the "calculation basis" argument for Calculated Data

Consider eliminating the "calculation basis" argument (time-weighted versus event-weighted) for Calculated Data. Reasons: Average already has 2 calculation modes, 1 for each calculation basis. Minimum, maximum, and range produce the same value whe...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 Declined