Jo West

This will be the final blog post from myself, Jo Price West. Over the last few years I have posted a few hundred blogs on various ProjectWise topics which I hope you have found to be valuable. Jo Price West is actually a pen name for the Bentley ProjectWise…

Seeing the Access Control Inheritance on Your Folders and Documents

Want a quick and easy way to see if access control in ProjectWise is inherited?  Use the access control tab in the preview pane in ProjectWise Explorer.  Look at the folder and document…

For all of those who are already on Twitter, here are my two top people to follow. 

@AlGray tweets about Engineering Information Management with topics important to all of us in the eB and ProjectWise world or anyone interested in the future of information…

 I had a user ask if it was possible to increase the number of documents displayed in the right pane when a folder is selected in the ProjectWise SS4 Web client. By default it is set to 30. How do I increase this value? Open the FlexibleList.ascx file…

SharePoint allows for secure development environment for developers to use for custom web part code deployments and testing.  This particular SharePoint environment is referred to as a “sandbox” environment.

A SharePoint sandbox environment…

New ProjectWise training is now available on the BeConnected web site.  This content is available to all SELECT subscribers.  These sessions can be used for new or existing users of ProjectWise who don’t have available classroom training.  

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Several ways can be used to check the value of a configuration variable including using the -msdebug switch and checking variables in MicroStation. However, it is sometimes hard to find out what value a variable is at a certain moment in Configuration…

Often times, you may want to change the background of a drawing published through the ProjectWise Web Server to black.  The steps are very simple:

1. Start the ProjectWise Publishing Server Administrator
2. Click on Publishing Workspace > Global Setting…

When indexing text for the ProjectWise processor FTR (Full Text Retrieval), we have all heard about the “ignored” words such as ‘and’, ‘as’ and ‘the’.  In case you are curious, here is a fairly complete list…

If you read my blog about Cascading Attributes and found that useful, here’s another way to do something similar, but a bit more complicated.

Recently I was asked, “How do I create a SELECT statement to do this?”

I have two Project…

A common question I get asked about the ProjectWise V8i SDK training is:

 “How much programming experience does someone really need to take the class?”

 The course description has the following requirements and recommendations:”

With ProjectWise SelectSeries3 release, there is an easier way to set Project/Folder and document security. You no longer need to open the folder properties dialog to set its permissions.

As you select each folder, its’ permissions are displayed on the…

When a user is a member of the Administrator group, he or she will have full access to every node under the datasource (Applications, States, Environments, Users, etc.).

Now with ProjectWise SELECTseries 3, each node has a “Granular Security” tab allowing…

Group and User List Membership

Groups and user lists are two different ways of grouping users together in the datasource.

Groups are typically created by the administrator as a way to group together users who need the same access rights to folders and…

Is there a way to use Project Properties conditionally in a MicroStation Workspace?  There is a technique to do this, simply create a Workspace Variable at the Command Line using the –ws switch.

1. In ProjectWise Admin, edit the MicroStation Application…

ProjectWise Database User requirements

 ProjectWise can run on both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Servers, it uses a multi-user connection in which the ProjectWise Server has a connection with the database (through ODBC or SQL Native Client). Besides this…

In all of my ProjectWise deployments, one of the first things I develop is an architecture diagram depicting a structure of the system hardware and ProjectWise components that run on them, showing how the hardware and software components work together…

During ProjectWise training, I am often asked what is the definition of a “Datasource”.  In general terms, the name datasource is commonly used when creating a query to the database.  More specifically, I define a datasource as a structure that…

Readme’s have come a long way since the readme.txt files of old.  Over the years, table of contents and hyperlinks have been added.   The format of the Select Series I readme has a hyperlinked table of contents on the left and the actual contents on…

ProjectWise i-model Composer (SELECT Series 1) is a desktop application for generating i-models.

An i-model is a read-only container which contains 2D/3D geometry as well as business data.

You can publish an i-model which will produce separate i-models…

When working with the ProjectWise Distribution Service, each “job” creates a variety of different files, including a copy of all files selected by the Job (and their Reference Files), any renditions, job history and more.  Over time, these…

I had an interesting situation recently with a customer installing ProjectWise Publishing on their Web Server in a non-SharePoint environment.  ProjectWise Publishing, on versions prior to the V8i SELECTseries 1 release, will automatically attach itself…

If you have created a ProjectWise datasource, then you are aware that ProjectWise can create the datasource from template.  This option “Create datasource from template” is available on the final screen of the New Datasource Wizard.  If selected…

A new feature with Distribution Services in ProjectWise SELECTSeries 1 is the option to create versions for those files sent to your target folder.  This option is available when adding a Distribution definition for your ‘Job’ and is accessed through the…

The recently added photo preview feature in ProjectWise Explorer was developed to more easily view image files in the preview pane of ProjectWise Explorer without having to open them in a specific application. In implementing this feature, Bentley added…