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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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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

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 10 Evaluating

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

Allow users to include or omit element references from searches

As of PI DataLink 2015, element reference paths are returned in addition to the primary element path if they both exist under the search root. Enhance the Search and Asset Filter Search to include or omit element reference paths. Note: This was p...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined

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 11 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

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 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 No status

Provide an Setting to Switch Between Absolute and Relative Cell Reference

Create an absolute or relative cell reference user configurable setting. Note: This was previously Enhancement 19354OSI8.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 1 Declined

Make function presets/favorites user configurable

Make function presets/favorites user configurable Note: This was previously Enhancement 19180OSI8
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Settings 0 Declined