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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
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

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

New function for Ethernet/IP (“scanner”)

Add the function to able to act as (“scanner”). At this moment the connect can only act as an adapter, that means that It can't collect data from other device that also are connector is an adapter. https://www.odva.org/Technology-Standards/EtherNe...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

The connector creates too many tags

Currently, the connector will create 124 or 248 tags per data source, regardless of how many meaningful data points are actually in the data set. This greatly limits the use of the connector to any customer that is not an EA.
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Support user-defined data types in the PI Connector for EtherNet/IP

As an advanced user, I would like to be able to specify a user-defined data type for the array sent to the PI Connector for EtherNet/IP.  For example, if I have a 32-bit array composed of one INT and two SINTs, I would like to be able to conf...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 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

Office365 support for PI Builder2018SP1

Will PI Builder2018SP1 officially support Office365 in the future? According to the knowledge below, currently PI Builder does not officially support M365. https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027755 https://cu...
S Tsukada over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status

Mass create data source list for PI Connector

For the PI Connector for EtherNet IP you can have up to 100 data sources. Typing in all of them is tedious. It would be nice if we could copy/paste information from Excel OR have a structured import/export file to the data source list.
Dan.Louchbaum over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 1 No status

PI Connector for Ethernet IP should retrieve tagnames from the PLC array

The AF Hierarchy that is created by the connector does not take into consideration any of the tagnames within the PLC array, it just creates attributes for them as slot.n where “n” is a number corresponding to the array position. Not only is this ...
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status