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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.


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Fetch previous change of value (and its timestamp) from compressed data

It is valuable to extract the previous change of value and its timestamp without full dump of compress data. If that value could be specified, the feature is even more usefull. Example: a time series has the state of an alarm and the current value...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

I need to know how to change the chart from meters to feet.

Hello this is my first time to start working with Pi. I have a customer that he wants to see the distance not in meters but in feet. How I can reflect the chart the calculation. we have the data coming in meters, but I need to show the view in fee...
Soraya Lopez about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

Use Pattern Style "Solid" for PI Builder Retrieve cells that return Null values

For some monitors, the Pattern Style "50% Gray" causes the cell to have a shimmering effect.
Todd Jimeson about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Replace "https://techsupport.osisoft.com" in PI DataLink's About window

The link redirects to myOSIsoft. The link should be revised so that it does not redirect and possibly so that it leads to a different page instead. Either that or the link can be eliminated entirely.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 3 No status

Ribbon icons should visualize the kind of data to be retrieved

Currently, the icons that PI DataLink uses in the Ribbon are just meant to look pretty and do not help the user understand what kind of data will be retrieved. Please consider making the icons more informative. My suggestion is to use sparklines a...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

PI DataLink input fields in the "Explore Events" or "Compare Events" functions to be displayed correctly

When opening Microsoft Excel to access the installed PI DataLink 2019, there are instances where the input fields in the "Explore Events" or "Compare Events" function cannot be seen. Additional step to expand the pane width is required in order to...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Task Pane 0 No status

Calculated data for multiple points

In our business, people frequently use the "Calculated Data" function to retrieve (for example) daily averages for multiple tags. When they want to do this for multiple days, a new function is required for each day (presumably requiring additional...
andrew_Inwood over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Add new query that limits data pulled to that which is sufficient to properly chart while maintaining the visual integrity of the data

One of the quickest ways to identify exceptions is to visualize it through plots. Exceptions are often minima's or maxima's. Sampled data queries often miss the exceptions. Compressed data queries are frequently so voluminous that it is not possib...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

Install and run PI DataLink on ARM-based processors

DataLink is commonly used by end-users on their laptops and ARM-based processors are becoming increasingly common for corporate laptops. Support for running x86/x64 PI DataLink on ARM processors in emulated environments would benefit a lot of cust...
Zoe Altenberg 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status