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

Use Pattern Style "Solid" for PI Builder Retrieve cells that return Null values

For some monitors, the Pattern Style "50% Gray" causes the cell to have a shimmering effect.
Todd Jimeson about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Avoid necessary registry correction after Click To Run Office update

At our company the unit responsible for deploying software knows about the article KB01529 (Errors with PI DataLink when updating or upgrading Click To Run Office). But they state: According to OSIsofts problem with PI and Office 365 click to run...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 Planned

Bring back PIAttributeMaskToTag

Please, bring back the PIAttributeMaskToTag function. It disappeared after PI Datalink 2019SP1 Patch 1. Emulating it with a VBA function calling on an AF SDK COM wrapper is a lot of work and, most importantly, much slower that a native DataLink im...
Dorin IACOB about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 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

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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 3 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 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 over 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status