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With the release of ProjectWise V8i SELECTseries 4 Revit users will be excited to know of a couple of changes to the Revit Integration. The first change is during Checkout and File Open. Previously the Central file and DAT files were locked until the local file was completely open. With this change files are not locked during the copy out process. Once the local file has been created, the Central File will be locked briefly during a Delta File Transfer...

1. Is it ok to delete the contents of this directory? Yes, it is ok to delete these files in the async-extraction” directory 2. What are these files and where do they come from? Files are placed in the async-extraction directory by one of the Document Processors. The Full Text Extraction, Thumbnails or File Properties. Once these files have been processed they should automatically be deleted from this directory. If these files are not getting...

You can enable simple or automatic check-in of documents in each integrated Microsoft Office application as necessary, by configuring certain strings in the registry for each application. Simple check-in replaces the standard ProjectWise Check In dialog (that opens when you close a checked out document) with a simple Yes/No confirmation dialog that prompts you to check in the document. Automatic check-in checks in the document silently (no dialogs...

By default, the ProjectWise Integration Module for Autodesk Revit automatically maps the drive letter R (assuming it is free) on the user´s computer to the user´s ProjectWise working directory, so that every user in the datasource who is using integrated Revit is automatically using the same drive letter. This drive mapping allows for Revit synchronization with the central file. The drive mapping occurs when integration is invoked, and...

Many ProjectWise Administrator's ask if there is a way to optimize Document Processor. Many get confused what to add in the File Type Associations in the properties of each Document Processors. Well hopefully this will help you. First off something you might want to reconsider is putting a * under the application column and Mapped to DGN's You are basically saying for all files to be read as DGN's. This is a common configuration we see...

With the MicroStation SS3 recently released you may be wondering how to integrate it with ProjectWise SELECTseries 3. The good news is that the existing ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 3) can be used with the new MicroSation V8i (SELECTseries 3) release. The new features in MicroStation will not be fully integrated, however, basic integration works as expected. Assuming that you already have ProjectWise Explorer installed, after upgrading MicroStation...

Scenario: Your Projectwise logins where created using ProjectWise logical accounts and when the accounts were created the names did not match their window account names. Now you want to changed the accounts to be windows domain or windows synchronized accounts but do not want the users to lose ownership of the their objects in Projectwise. How can you keep the logical user ID to be the same as their Active Directory ID. In ProjectWise administrator...

Did you know that the PW database records everytime a user checks out or copies out a document? Over time, these entries might need to be cleaned up maybe after a user leaves, or gets a new computer. Starting in PW SELECT Series 1, there is a tool delivered with the ProjectWise administrator to help you do this. The chkl cleanup tool allows you to remove copy out entries by user name or machine name... take a look at this technote to find out more...

Using the “Export…” option in ProjectWise Explorer to copy out the files in hierarchy form that mirrors the original directory structure in the datasource upon export, this method allows the user to use Windows drag and drop (Import) the directory structure and files into another datasource. The Export… option feature is accessible via the Document menu on ProjectWise Explorer tool bar. Using the Export wizard tool to export...

It helps when working with version changes to have in the ProjectWise Admin module to make sure the setting: Document List > Show All Versions is enabled (checked) Also, to clarify the process of changing versions, it’s good to add to your “View” from top menu > Views > Manage Views and add columns for “Version” and “Sequence” to aid in changing versions. The idea behind versions is that nothing ever...

Depending on which ProjectWise applications you have installed, you may also have several help files, and it may not always be obvious to you which help file to look in for information. To make things a little easier, there is a file called the "ProjectWise.chm", a help wrapper that provides a single point of entry to all the ProjectWise help files that may be installed on a given computer. Here's how to use it: First download the ProjectWise_help_wrapper...

Ok, so we've explained how to find the DMS folder id number in ProjectWise in a prior posting, so now if a user deletes a folder in SS3 you have to go through the painful process of finding the file/folder and restoring from your backup. Great, so how do you do this? Basic disaster/recovery information can be found in the Implementation Guide that is delivered in the server download files. In ProjectWise SELECTseries, development added some pretty...

Scenario: Your running out of space on your hard drive and want to move your ProjectWise storage area to a new drive, a new PW Caching server, or a network appliance. Quick steps: Lock everyone out of the system so that no files can be checked out or in. In windows explorer copy the files from the old location to the new location In PW administrator, right click on the storage area and re-point the server and path to the new location. When prompted...

You may have heard about the new moble apps coming out for ProjectWise and wondering what they are all about. Take a look at this page for more information on ProjectWise Explorer for the iPad http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/iPad/ and using the ProjectWise Mobile Access Server (also available in beta) users can directly connect to a ProjectWise server from their iPad http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Free+Software/projectwise+mobile+access+server.htm...

The Delta File Benchmark Wizard is a tool that will generate 3 files in your workstations temporary directory and will use those files to gauge the performance of the DFT technology. The application will import these documents into a test folder in the datasource, check them out, make a predefined set of changes to the file data, and then check the files back in. This will give the user a report on their performance on files that get checked in and...

Windows Search Service is a new indexing solution that is included in Windows Server 2008 as a role service in the File Services role. It creates an index of the most common file types on your server—such as e-mail, contacts, documents, multimedia, and other formats extended by non-Microsoft files. Indexing Service is an indexing solution that is included with Windows Server 2008, and was part of previously released Windows Server 2003. Can...

There are actually two steps in accomplishing this. First you need to enable the comment section in the datasource. Then you assign the required comment option to each user, to add or NOT add comments. To enable the comment section in the datasource do the following: Open ProjectWise Administrator and log into the datasource. Go into the Properties section of the datasource and select the Audit Trail tab and click Settings. Highlight “Document”...

Yes, the behavior of “Move To…” command in ProjectWise Explorer is not active when multi-files are selected. This is normal. To move Multi-files, the following methods can be use. Cut and Paste method 1. Select one or more documents. 2. Select Document > Cut (or <ctrl-X>). 3. Select the folder or project to which you want to move the document(s). 4. Select Document > Paste (or <ctrl-V>). 5. When prompted, “Do...

There has been many times in support a ProjectWise Admin calls in a panic. It's their worst nightmare. One of their users deleted a folder or file or worse, several. If that wasn't bad enough they don't recall what they deleted. It could have been several files or folders. How can they find the folder idt? Well the good news is that in ProjectWise SELECTseries 3 you can at least see the folder id of the deleted folders easily. To see the...

Create many files from one seed file in Projectwise A user wanted to create a serious of files using the same seed file in Projectwise. Each file would be sequential i.e. file1.dgn, file2.dgn and so on. You can create many files from one seed using the PW Export\Import tool First, create a folder in PW Explorer where the files we be placed, then add your seed file to the folder Next (using the tool) create an excel template with the information you...

ProjectWise SELECTsupport just added videos to our Files that include: ProjectWise Managing Revit Details ProjectWise Revit and 3D PDF ProjectWise Revit Standards and Families Creating Revit Application Associations in ProjectWise **Download the AppInfo.xml file for Revit Association Creation. 'How to use your existing Revit Central files in ProjectWise' video is also available. Please contact ProjectWise SELECT support for details. Did you...

Back in ProjectWise SS2 and prior when a user did a large MicroStation Batch Processing over a list of different files the user would get prompted to check in each document after it has been processed. This caused users to not be able to walk away during a large Batch Process and come back when it's done, reason being they would have to sit and click check in on each and every single document. The reason for this was that in ProjectWise SS2 and...

Are you running web parts and recieve this error? "Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList" Another symptom of this problem in ProjectWise Web Parts running on SharePoint is that the Content Web Part will not show the full ProjectWise address, and if you attempt to edit the web part, you will get the error mentioned above. To fix this problem, log into your web server, open up the ProjectWise Network Control Panel, and "hard...

Are you an engineer on the move? Or a construction worker in the field? Or an owner/operator who travels? Then you will love Bentley’s first ever iPad apps! WELCOME to the NEW world of MOBILE content management and project collaboration. ProjectWise Explorer for the iPad is our new iPad version of Bentley's desktop software ProjectWise Explorer. Bentley’s ProjectWise Explorer is an engineering document management and team collaboration...

URN (Uniform Resource Name) finds documents the item's GUID. So if a document is moved to a new location in the datasource, the link is still valid. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) finds documents using the datasource path. If a document is deleted from the datasource, and a replacement document with the same name and location is created, the link is still valid. If you open the shortcut's Properties dialog box, you will see what kind of link...