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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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Asset Filter search unusable if Office theme is set to Dark Gray. Attributes section shows up in white font on white background.

To make it usable.
BruceMcCamant over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 No status

Option to hide header row in results from Explore Events function

When pulling in results from searches in the Explore Events function, the option to hide the results header row would be beneficial when working with multiple attribute filter values in the same sheet
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status

Ability to log PI DataLink function usage

A centralized place to log PI DataLink usage, including the following information, The formula of the function Search requests made by PI DataLink The client/user information
Jeccie Qiu about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Rename "Compressed Data" to "Archived Data"

In the PI DataLink tab in the Ribbon, "Compressed Data" should be renamed to "Archived Data" since it actually retrieves archived data and not just compressed data. The icon should also be changed accordingly. Not all data in the PI Data Archive n...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Rename "Time Filtered" to "Condition Time"

"Time Filtered" was meant to be interpreted as "Time [Spent] Filtered", but it can easily be misinterpreted as "Time[-]Filtered" (i.e. filtered by time, i.e. Compressed Data). Please rename "Time Filtered" to "Condition Time" so that the name bett...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Rename "Timed Data" to "Data At Timestamps"

When I see "Timed Data", I think: "Well of course my data is timed! But what does this button do?". "Timed Data" retrieves interpolated/archived values at the given timestamps. Please rename "Timed Data" to better reflect this. I recommend "Data A...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Allow users to save and reuse searches.

Allow users to save and reuse searches. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26992OSI8
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Setting for Update Interval That Can Be Specified at the Excel Workbook Level

The customer would like to see an Update interval that can be specified at the Excel workbook level. The use case is that they run multiple Excel spreadsheets at the same time but need different update intervals for each. Workaround: use VBA to ac...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

Optimize tag search by introducing a setting allowing less precision when filtering a tag search by value (especially for float tags)

For example, when searching for Float32 tags with a value of -0.062 in PI System Management Tools, several results may appear, whereas no results appear in an equivalent tag search in PI DataLink. The value of the tag in PI SMT may display as -0.0...
Ryan Biggins about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Only include the worksheet in a formula if a sheet other than the one the formula resides is referenced

Copying formulas from one sheet to another is tedious because you must replace the sheet that Datalink forces in with the sheet you paste into even if all referenced cells are all on the same sheet. Please make the behavior similar to how Excel do...
Sublette-Sanofi about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status