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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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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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Replace "https://techsupport.osisoft.com" in PI DataLink's About window

The link redirects to myOSIsoft. The link should be revised so that it does not redirect and possibly so that it leads to a different page instead. Either that or the link can be eliminated entirely.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 3 No status

Ribbon icons should visualize the kind of data to be retrieved

Currently, the icons that PI DataLink uses in the Ribbon are just meant to look pretty and do not help the user understand what kind of data will be retrieved. Please consider making the icons more informative. My suggestion is to use sparklines a...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Allow case-sensitive filtering on PI Point Value in Search Dialog

PI DataLink 2017 added the ability to filter searches based on a PI Point's current value.   For searching on PI Point's with string values, it would be great if there was a way to do a case-sensitive search.  A ‘case-sensitive’ che...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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 about 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 about 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 about 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 about 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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

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