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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 8 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

ICU startup on high latency networks

On high latency networks, it can take ICU many minutes to start because every interface on the PI Data Archive is checked. Minimize startup time by caching a node's registered interfaces.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 11 Future consideration

Remote PI ICU

Regardless of where interface info are stored (PI Module DB or AF), it would be useful to have a remote client tool allowing administrator users to configure interfaces  like they do with tags and AF objects. Today when you have to change con...
MAl over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

Migrate the PI ICU settings away from the PI Module Database

PI ICU settings are currently the main reason why the PI Module Database continues to live on even the most up-to-date PI systems. Please consider migrating the PI ICU settings from the PI Module Database to the PI Asset Framework or a separate fi...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 5 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 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 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