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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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.


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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

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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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No Status

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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ 0 Declined

can we ad normal files as hyperlinks to buttons from a local networkdisk

( example --> S:\pictures\tankfarm.jpeg ) with pi processbook it was possible , with pi-vision i didn't find yet !
Guest 10 days ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 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 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 4 No Status

More User Selected Columns Options in the Search Results View

Customer wants to see extra user selected columns in the search results pane with more information instead of via a right click menu. Note: This was previously Enhancement 27008OSI8
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 1 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 Declined

Improve Error Dialog When Element Attribute Path Length is too long

e.g Current Value, When Selecting an attribute whose path length > 255 characters, throws an Excel Error "Unable to Set the FormulaArray Property of the Range Class". 255 characters is an excel limitation, Datalink should not allow such a selec...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 Declined

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 about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No Status

Search for tag & instrumenttag for PI AF attributes

When searching for PI AF element attributes, be able to filter on tag or instrumenttag.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined