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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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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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Allow configuration option to export PI Tags to Excel separated by a row or column to allows for timestamp information

My Customer, Southern California Edison, would like to have an option in Excel that would automatically include a blank row or column (depending on the output settings configured) so that they can export a few hundred tags, and then be able to req...
Janelle Minich 6 days ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status
217 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 No status
180 VOTE

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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 No status

Analysis service installer

When upgrading the PI analysis/notification service in a clustered environment, it prompts you to change the configured analysis/notification service. In a clustered environment, this breaks the configuration and requires an PI admin to go back an...
GaryYegiazaryan 9 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Extend PI Data Archive time zone setting support

Currently PI DataLink allows you to select the PI Data Archive time zone setting however this setting only applies to data items or expressions that contain either a PI point or a PI AF attribute that is a PI point data reference. If the data item...
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Avoid necessary registry correction after Click To Run Office update

At our company the unit responsible for deploying software knows about the article KB01529 (Errors with PI DataLink when updating or upgrading Click To Run Office). But they state: According to OSIsofts problem with PI and Office 365 click to run...
Guest almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 Completed

configure the PI DataLink language independently of the Microsoft Office language setting.

"Beginning with PI DataLink 2022 it uses the Office language to display the localized functions." Because the customer’s organization operates globally, individual users may have different Office language settings. To maintain consistency, they wo...
Runpu YAN about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Use dynamic arrays for array functions on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays

Currently, if you use the GUI to return an array of values, the array formula will always use a static array, even on versions of Excel that support dynamic arrays. Also, if you manually enter a PI DataLink array formula as a dynamic array (i.e. y...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 3 Completed

Continue to support/modify the PI Trend Add-In for Excel DataLink that was in 2014 on into 2016 and beyond.

This add-in allowed for a trend to be created within an Excel Spreadsheet without first dumping the data to the sheet.  It was an easy trend to make and it updated with current live data when requested (F9). There is a work around to get thi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 8 Declined