AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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    Composite element templates

    As an user I want to be able to create a template hierarchy (parent-child) all at once, so that I can easily create a hierarchy representing related assets. For example, create a motor, gearbox, compressor train with a single template that actuall...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 No status

    Update EFGen Interface Health Tags To Allow For Better Status Monitoring

    The current EFGen interface "Status" health tag displays a value of "Good" if it is connected to the data source but does not factor in if it is writing Event Frame data to PI. There is not currently a straightforward way to drive a PI Notificatio...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 No status

    Time Zone Specification to Represent Data in

    Letting the customer specify the time zone in which to represent the data would be a nice enhancement. Note: This was previously Enhancement 2729OSI8.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 10 No status

    Add a parameter to disable NTLM authentication

    On the "Health endpoints parameters" page of the documentation of any AVEVA Adapter, it states that Negotiate (i.e. try Kerberos first and fall back to NTLM if that fails) will be used if a username/password pair and a clientId/clientSecret pair a...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

    This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 0 No status

    Provide examples that use PIPutVal and PIPutValX with Office Scripts

    According to the PI DataLink documentation, PIPutVal and PIPutValX should be used only in VBA and not in regular Excel formulas. However, Microsoft and its customers are progressively phasing out the use of VBA macros to address the security issue...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

    Reduce support for static ("Ctrl + Shift + Enter") arrays and drop support for unsupported versions of Excel

    This suggestion is a follow-up to the one linked below, so please read that first: Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays Currently, PI DataLink uses static arrays by default but gives the option to...
    Kenneth Barber about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Display Instrument Tag, Loc1-5 and UserInt for custom point classes

    The data item details pane introduced in PI Vision 2025 doesn't display the Instrument Tag, Loc1-5 and UserInt attributes for custom point classes, even if they derive from the classic point class. This functionality should also be extended to cus...
    Rafael Batista 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 1 No status

    Identification of unused PI Vision displays

    Currently the PI Vision "Display usage information" report only shows displays that have been accessed at least once. It should also show displays with zero accesses, which are an indication that they might not be needed anymore. By identifying un...
    victor.guiotoku almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Administration 0 No status

    Gauge: 360 Degree for Wind Direction

    Weather station data used on site gives us the degrees wind direction. It would be useful to be able to visualize this with a 360 degree "gauge".
    Guest 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / ProcessBook Viewer 1 No status