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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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    Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

    This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 0 No status

    Provide examples that use PIPutVal and PIPutValX with Office Scripts

    According to the PI DataLink documentation, PIPutVal and PIPutValX should be used only in VBA and not in regular Excel formulas. However, Microsoft and its customers are progressively phasing out the use of VBA macros to address the security issue...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

    Reduce support for static ("Ctrl + Shift + Enter") arrays and drop support for unsupported versions of Excel

    This suggestion is a follow-up to the one linked below, so please read that first: Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays Currently, PI DataLink uses static arrays by default but gives the option to...
    Kenneth Barber 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    I need to see security bulletins pushed to my immediate attention

    As a security aware customer, it is critical that I receive proactive alerts about OSIsoft security bulletins. It is suboptimal for me to subscribe to alerts in the portal, and then search for the alerts periodically in a rolling feed that could h...
    Guest about 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / Knowledge Base 7 No status

    Limit Analytics to Only Write to Specific Pointsource

    A useful setting for PI Analytics would be the ability to specify a specific pointsource that the Analytic service writes to. This would help tremendously to troubleshoot what tags on the PI DA server are being written to by AF Analytics.
    Brian Rock about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Queue PI Point creation attempts if made during archive shifts

    Currently, when archives are shifting, any attempts to create PI Points will be rejected with the error "Error on internal point editing call during point create for archive add point(<point info>). [-11095] Archive Shift already in progress...
    Ryan Biggins over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Allow Default Scale Range To Be Set to "Database" for Trend Symbol

    Need to create hundreds of trends and there are some defaults that are available but the scale range default is Autorange for the values being plotted and would be good if this could be changed to be Database limits by default when creating a new ...
    Mohammed Qasim Asghar over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 0 No status

    PI Connector for IEC 60870-5-104: to filter IOAs

    Considering the following scenario encountered by the customer: In IEC-104 data source, there might be 500 signals of single point (type=1, M_SP_NA_1) and 1000 measurements of normalized value (type=9, M_ME_NA_1); however the customer would not l...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 3 No status

    Make it easier to get a list of buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive

    For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Ability to override analysis in a derived template

    When i create a derived Element Template, i would like to be able to override an inherited analysis. Now i am severly limited in the re-use of templates due to this limitation. I cannot extend nor exclude functionality in a derived template if thi...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 8 Declined