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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status

Disable the recalculation auto when filtering the result

The problem is that after the calculations of PI Data Link Functions, I want to review the results by applying Filtering to the rows, but as soon as I set up the Filter, Excel immediately runs the calculation again. I have to wait until the calcu...
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI System Explorer shows times in US-American format, despite Windows being German

My Windows UI is set to English for all text-matters. However all region formats (dates, comma-versus-period-decimal-symbol and so on is set to German) Most programs respect these settings. However PI System Explorer displays all date/time formats...
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status

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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Improve Visibility for Automatic Task Pane

As user of PI DataLink, I would like the Automatic Task Pane to highlight the referenced cells in different colours that the functions (e.g. Sampled Data) are using. It helps to improve visibility and reduce confusion.
Willy Seah 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 No status