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

Calendar/Timestamp Control Can Be Used to Help Populate Time

Calendar/Timestamp (DatePicker) control can be used to help populate time fields. Populating the cells might also be a nice enhancement. Note: This was previously Enhancement 17311OSI8.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 Declined

Add the ability to multi-select and move display columns in Asset Filter Search, Explore Events, and Compare Events

Currently, only a single item can be selected and moved (or deleted) in the "Attributes to display" list in Asset Filter Search. An analagous behavior exists in the "Columns to display" list in Explore Events, and Compare Events. For each of these...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 3 Declined

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells

Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells. Note that hitting F9 will not reformat the cells if a change to the displaydigits is made. That includes if you change the tagname to a tag which has a different display digits attribute. Note: ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

Create a programmatic access layer

Customers have been using DLResize in the VBA pidldialogs.xla project which is unsupported. It would be nice to create a programmatic access layer so that things such as DLResize can be done in a supported way. It would also be helpful to have pro...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 1 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 Declined

In the Asset Filter Search task pane, add the ability to filter attributes shown in "Attributes to display" list

The "Attributes to display" list becomes difficult to navigate when a large number of attributes are present.   A filter would be helpful.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 Declined

Add Support for SharePoint Server 2016 to PI DataLink Server

Customer has a plan to upgrade their SharePoint Server to 2016 but currently it's hold off and pending on whether it will be supported by PI DataLink Server.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 1 Declined