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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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Have the option to preserve or change GUID during View import

During View import process, have the option to preserve or change the View's GUID. This comes into play if multiple Integrators share the same SQL backend; there will be a GUID collision. Use case: split a large view among Integrators (for perform...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 Declined

Create non-clustered index via the Integrator front end

Our end users tend not to have SQL access. We would like to allow them to create clustered indexes to increase the performance of a SQL query on the target view.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 Declined

Add offset options

I'd like the ability to configure offsets so that 1) my Views are consistently run for the same time intervals (important for statistical calculations) and 2) I can stagger the publishing of my Views to improve performance. If I were publishing ...
Kelsey Bobeck over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 Declined

Allow users to save and reuse searches.

Allow users to save and reuse searches. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26992OSI8
Guest over 3 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 over 3 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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

Datalink - Root Path should allow to specify multiple Data Archives

Currently, the Root Path field of Datalink can be pointed to a single cell to retrieve the name of the Data Archive where the tag resides. It is not possible to specify an array of cells, as only the first Data Archive will be considered. There ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 Declined

"Show value attributes" option for Current Value and Archive Value functions

Include a "Show value attributes" option on the Current Value and Archive Value functions.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Display a parameter tooltip (IntelliSense) when typing functions manually

Please add a tooltip or equivalent to show the arguments of the PI DataLink functions when you are entering the functions manually, similar to the tooltips that appear when you use native Excel functions.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined