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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

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

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

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

Allow case-sensitive filtering on PI Point Value in Search Dialog

PI DataLink 2017 added the ability to filter searches based on a PI Point's current value.   For searching on PI Point's with string values, it would be great if there was a way to do a case-sensitive search.  A ‘case-sensitive’ che...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Add a unit column for data item searches

In data item searches, it would be useful to have a column that shows the engineering unit or default UOM of the returned results. This helps assure the user that they chose the correct data item and confirms the data item's unit with the user.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 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