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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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Allow users to save and reuse searches.

Allow users to save and reuse searches. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26992OSI8
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Setting for Update Interval That Can Be Specified at the Excel Workbook Level

The customer would like to see an Update interval that can be specified at the Excel workbook level. The use case is that they run multiple Excel spreadsheets at the same time but need different update intervals for each. Workaround: use VBA to ac...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

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

Only include the worksheet in a formula if a sheet other than the one the formula resides is referenced

Copying formulas from one sheet to another is tedious because you must replace the sheet that Datalink forces in with the sheet you paste into even if all referenced cells are all on the same sheet. Please make the behavior similar to how Excel do...
Sublette-Sanofi about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

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 about 2 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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 Declined

Format based on Questionable attribute

Would like to be able to format any data value based on the questionable attribute. Use case: We have a report that uses 15 minute sampled data. The data is in a large table, one month displayed, date on the left hand side, time in 15 min incre...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

"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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined