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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.

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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 21 days ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

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

Return the Values of Timestamp Data Items in Timestamp Format

The values of timestamp tags or AF attributes should be formatted as timestamp in Excel by default. Currently they are returned as integers, and then users have to manually convert them into timestamps.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 Declined

Rename "Compressed Data" to "Archived Data"

In the PI DataLink tab in the Ribbon, "Compressed Data" should be renamed to "Archived Data" since it actually retrieves archived data and not just compressed data. The icon should also be changed accordingly. Not all data in the PI Data Archive n...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Better behavior on Brazilian DST start (no midnight)

Whenever Daylight Saving Time starts on Brazil the issue below is prone to happen: Whenever Start/End time has a date corresponding to DST start, which will either cause date misinterpretation (using formats XX-XX-XX or XX/XX/XX) or throw an err...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Rename "Timed Data" to "Data At Timestamps"

When I see "Timed Data", I think: "Well of course my data is timed! But what does this button do?". "Timed Data" retrieves interpolated/archived values at the given timestamps. Please rename "Timed Data" to better reflect this. I recommend "Data A...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Format based on Questionable attribute

Would like to be able to format any data value based on the questionable attribute. Use case: We have a report that uses 15 minute sampled data. The data is in a large table, one month displayed, date on the left hand side, time in 15 min incre...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Use Pattern Style "Solid" for PI Builder Retrieve cells that return Null values

For some monitors, the Pattern Style "50% Gray" causes the cell to have a shimmering effect.
Todd Jimeson almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Format 0 No status

Replace "https://techsupport.osisoft.com" in PI DataLink's About window

The link redirects to myOSIsoft. The link should be revised so that it does not redirect and possibly so that it leads to a different page instead. Either that or the link can be eliminated entirely.
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Help / Documentation / Videos 3 No status