var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "Realize the value of process information. With PI DataLink, process owners can extract current, real-time, and/or historic process information from PI and rapidly determine such information's impact on the organization.

PI DataLink facilitates efficient publication and distribution of reports leveraging the publishing capabilities of Microsoft Excel over the Internet, in e-mail messages, or in print.


Main features:

- DataLink provides a graphical interface to retrieve data and build functions and calculations. DataLink functions are embedded in spreadsheet cells and can provide active updates of data from the PI server.

- Combined with the computational, graphic and formatting capabilities of Microsoft Excel, DataLink offers powerful tools for gathering, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting PI data.

- DataLink for Excel Services enables users to retrieve data from the PI System and view it in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format using only a Web browser."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }