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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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Allow user to independently filter on attribute name and element name in search dialog

Currently, the same filter used in the search term text field when searching on an AF Database.    The user would like to be able to use independent filters on the attribute name and element name so that they can filter down their search results.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Datalink Search menu not intuitive

The Search menu in PI Datalink 2016 is confusing for users used to PI Tag searches elsewhere in the PI System. "In a row" and "In a column" are particularly confusing, as they suggest that searches are being performed within the row or column. Thi...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

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

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’ checkbox would be ...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Include Italian in the MUI language pack for the client tools

The customer would like the MUI language pack for the client tools (Process book, Datalink) to support Italian.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

Manual selection of Event Frame

I would like to select Event Frame/ Event Frames from the Preview in Explore Events task-pane and result returns manually selected Event Frame/ Event Frames only.
Willy Seah Wei Liat over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Search 0 Declined

Enable DataLink to display the timestamps of calculated attributes in EF

Enable DataLink (Explore Events) to display the timestamps of calculated attributes (e.g. maximum, minimum) of an Event Frame. Currently only the values are displayed. In PI System Explorer the requested timestamp is available. Reference to a for...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 1 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No Status

Export Attachments or Attachment Path Attached to Event Frame Annotations

We are able to currently see annotations for Event Frames but there is no easy way to quickly get a bulk export of Event Frames with Annotations along with what was attached to it, be it file name or path. It would be good to have another column t...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Events (EF) 0 Declined