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AVEVA™ PI DataLink™

    225 VOTE

    PI DataLink for Microsoft Office 365 online

    Support PI DataLink on Microsoft Office 365's web portal, Office Online (accessible via a browser). Note that PI DataLink already supports desktop installations of Office 365.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 29 No status
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    Provide DataLink functionality in a Google Sheets add-on

    A significant number of companies are moving from the Microsoft Office suite to "G Suite" (Google). This move takes customers from MS Excel to Google Sheets, and they would like to retain PI DataLink as a functional add-on.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 30 No status

    Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells

    Use DisplayDigits attribute in formatting of cells. Note that hitting F9 will not reformat the cells if a change to the displaydigits is made. That includes if you change the tagname to a tag which has a different display digits attribute. Note: ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

    Manual Data Entry Function May Be Useful with Macros Becoming Antiquated

    Manual entry data function may be useful with macros becoming antiquated. Support for making annotations may be useful enhancement as well. Note: This was previously Enhancement 19290OSI8.
    Somchai Limwongsaree almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 Declined

    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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 0 No status

    Setting to allow the omission of error strings in Calculated or Filtered Results

    Give the customers either an option or an application setting that allow them to omit error strings from function output. This would allow them to more easily chart results. Some examples of current strings that cause charting problems include, th...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 1 No status

    Support for UOM conversions

    Being able to specify a UOM that is not the default UOM and having the value returned converted in all functions Note: This was previously Enhancement 25182OSI8
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 2 No status

    Auto-Update enabled by default on Excel startup

    Add a setting to turn on the "Auto-Update" button on Excel startup automatically. Note: This was previously Enhancement 26678OSI8.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status