Learn about PI DataLink settings

Settings control many PI DataLink behaviors, including the time and number formats, the time zones returned, the strings that functions return, when the task pane opens, and how search results are pasted. Each person on a computer has individually saved settings. Users can view and change these settings directly from Excel.

PI DataLink retrieves the settings from the OSIsoft.PIDataLink.xml file, saved in each user's AppData directory:

%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\OSIsoft,_Inc\PIDataLink

Administrators can change the settings for all users on a particular computer or delete the settings for all users on a particular computer.