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

    Fix calculation so they dont say CALCULATION FAILED since latest update. only is an issue when now button is selected. they work fine when scrolling through history.

    everyone
    Guest 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Analytics / Calculations 0 No status

    Retrieve all symbols used in a PI Vision display

    Would like the functionality to retrieve a list of all symbols used in each PI Vision display or across all displays in the Vision database. This function would be performed either within PI Vision, via the Display Utility or using a Script. Addi...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Display Management / Displays Page 1 No status

    Polar plot

    I want to be able to do a polar plot! We have the need to monitor deformation in the stator of a hydro turbine. The you can see if the stator is oval. The time-series data behind must have an configurable time space. Start time, period.
    Hobbe about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 2 Declined

    Table: Labeling Options for Name column

    Add ability to control what is shown in the Name column. This should have the same options as other symbols: attribute name only, description, asset name, or use custom label to provide a friendly name
    holemn about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Symbols 1 No status

    Support Regex engine in the message filters

    It would be nice to have regex matching and replace in PI UFL ini files. Also, would be nice to have anything other than ASCII encoding support (ex UTF-8..with/without BOM, etc) Use cases: ex. we need to parse timestamps where year has either 2 o...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 No status

    Enhancement for Advise tags to poll  OPC server when Excmax expires

    Currently, when an advise tag does not get a value in an ExcMax period,  the interface will send the same value to PI over again without going to the OPC server (assuming that the OPC interface has not disconnected from the OPC server during ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 3 No status

    Batch Framework Interfaces - [TIME] placeholder should consider whether TS=LCL is configured

    Batch Framework Interfaces - [TIME] and [TIMESTAMP] placeholders should consider whether TS=LCL is configured (meaning the interface is processing incoming events as Local Time). Currently, values of these placeholders always show up as GMT timest...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 5 Planned