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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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Explore Events result in Column or Row

It should be possible to select whether you like the Explore Event result shown in column or row
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 No status

Option to disable DataLink automatic grouping

As a creator of DataLink spreadsheets, I would like to have the option to disable DataLink automatic grouping so that I can apply an input to one function (ex. filter expression, conversion factor, etc.) without it being applied to the entire grou...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Populate child attribute in Asset filter Search - Attribute to display

Child attributes are populated in the Attribute value filters section of the Asset filter search but have to be entered manually in the Attributes to display section. Users not familiar with the AF syntax or AF hierarchy have trouble entering/find...
Marc-Olivier Baillargeon over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Automatically update changes to Event Frame attributes

As a PI DataLink user, I would like for attributes for the Event Frames I am viewing with the Explore or Compare Events functions to update automatically, rather than having to use the Clear Cache button in the Settings window to retrieve new values.
Jeremy Roberts over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 No status

Have the possibility to disable OIDC authentication in PI DataLink

Add an option to disable OIDC authentication in PI DataLink.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI Builder Ribbon Issues

Knowlege "How to Resolve Common PI DataLink or PI Builder Ribbon Issues via PowerShell" The Excel ribbon in PIDatalink (or PIBuilder) may be enabled. You will need to run a Powershell script to enable the ribbon. We hope to resolve this issue ...
Guest 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Option to disable automatic connections to AF Servers

I would like the ability to disable automatic connections to specific AF Servers. Currently client applications (DataLink) are implicitly connecting to all AF Servers in the AF "KST". This results in very slow startup times for Excel. For customer...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

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

Allow converting compatible formulas to dynamic arrays on an entire spreadsheet

Right now, it is tedious to convert an existing spreadsheet to use dynamic arrays since each formula needs to be converted one-by-one. It would be helpful to have a way to convert formulas in bulk.
Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Ability to use multiple attribute filters with an 'OR' condition with Explore Events and Compare Events functions

Attribute value filters in the Explore Events and Compare Events functions in PI DataLink are 'AND' conditions as documented in the doc topic Explore Events task-pane reference . It would be helpful to use multiple filters with an 'OR' condition i...
Zoe Altenberg about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status