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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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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
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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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 28 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 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 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 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Time Zone Specification to Represent Data in

Letting the customer specify the time zone in which to represent the data would be a nice enhancement. Note: This was previously Enhancement 2729OSI8.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 10 No status

Official testing/support for application virtualization

Currently, PI System thick clients such as PI DataLink or PI ProcessBook are not tested against virtualized environments, as described in KB01590. However, there are various benefits of virtualizing parts of the PI System, as outlined in the artic...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 2 No status

Option for PI Point Number Inserts instead of Tag Names - tag renames stop spreadsheets from working.

ProcessBook stores tags by their pointid. If you change the name of a tag, It will still show up in ProcessBook. We would like to have the option to store tags in Xcel by the tag number instead of the name. As an example, we are getting ready to ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Disable the recalculation auto when filtering the result

The problem is that after the calculations of PI Data Link Functions, I want to review the results by applying Filtering to the rows, but as soon as I set up the Filter, Excel immediately runs the calculation again. I have to wait until the calcu...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI System Explorer shows times in US-American format, despite Windows being German

My Windows UI is set to English for all text-matters. However all region formats (dates, comma-versus-period-decimal-symbol and so on is set to German) Most programs respect these settings. However PI System Explorer displays all date/time formats...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI DataLink installation: Do not require permission changes on registry keys

The registry key permission changes in this KB https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=DataLinkregistryediterror-PISDKAccessDenied should be applied by the PI DataLink installer. It is not normal that software needs ma...
Peter Belmans almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 3 No status