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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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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Option to disable DataLink automatic grouping

As a creator of DataLink spreadsheets, I would like to have the option to disable DataLink automatic grouping so that I can apply an input to one function (ex. filter expression, conversion factor, etc.) without it being applied to the entire grou...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Have the possibility to disable OIDC authentication in PI DataLink

Add an option to disable OIDC authentication in PI DataLink.
Eduardo Mirra Galante Miller 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

PI Builder Ribbon Issues

Knowlege "How to Resolve Common PI DataLink or PI Builder Ribbon Issues via PowerShell" The Excel ribbon in PIDatalink (or PIBuilder) may be enabled. You will need to run a Powershell script to enable the ribbon. We hope to resolve this issue ...
Guest 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Option to disable automatic connections to AF Servers

I would like the ability to disable automatic connections to specific AF Servers. Currently client applications (DataLink) are implicitly connecting to all AF Servers in the AF "KST". This results in very slow startup times for Excel. For customer...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Ability to log PI DataLink function usage

A centralized place to log PI DataLink usage, including the following information, The formula of the function Search requests made by PI DataLink The client/user information
Jeccie Qiu about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 No status

Only include the worksheet in a formula if a sheet other than the one the formula resides is referenced

Copying formulas from one sheet to another is tedious because you must replace the sheet that Datalink forces in with the sheet you paste into even if all referenced cells are all on the same sheet. Please make the behavior similar to how Excel do...
Sublette-Sanofi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Restrict the "Root path" field on the "Current Value" menu to only display PI Data Archive servers previously connected to this machine.

We have 12 PI Data Archive Servers and another 12 PI AF Systems. I currently have to sort through a list of 124 "servers" when I setup to collect some PI data. Many of the 124 "servers" are old servers no longer in use or databases under PI AF Sys...
DavidMFairchild over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status