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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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Restrict the "Root path" field on the "Current Value" menu to only display PI Data Archive servers previously connected to this machine.

We have 12 PI Data Archive Servers and another 12 PI AF Systems. I currently have to sort through a list of 124 "servers" when I setup to collect some PI data. Many of the 124 "servers" are old servers no longer in use or databases under PI AF Sys...
DavidMFairchild over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

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

Show Data Time Zone

When returning data have an indicator of the data's timezone. Other than in setting as that only indicator future pulls.
Mike_Wray over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

Allow the BACnet Adapter to handle responses with an LVT that does not match the request

Currently the BACnet Adapter expects devices to respond with the same "Length Value, and Type" (LVT) value as the request. When this occurs the BACnet Adapter cannot parse the data in the response. For example: Request from Adapter, LVT=1 Response...
Nico Cha almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for BACnet 0 No status

Addition of substitution parameters in DefaultStreamIdPattern -> specify a ValueField for it to read from

People wanting to use a single EventHub and Container holding events from many sources with common attribute naming. Want to be able to differentiate the naming of the pi tags based on source. Being able to substitute a unique source identifier (s...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Azure Event Hubs 0 No status

Error message should be generated for the Modbus request time out

After request time out, Modbus adapter should generate an error as time out after specified duration set by user.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 0 No status

Add the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status"

In the connectors there was the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status", as described here. For gen 1 there was a need to edit the config files directly, and in gen 2 the option was integrated into the UI. Instead for the adapter I recent...
sahilp about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status