• Acceptable Environment Attribute Format String Options

    One of the most common questions I get when covering the topic of environment attributes in a ProjectWise Administrator class is "is there a list of items that work for the Format String option?" The typical answer is "You can use C formats to format the value of the attribute". Unfortunately, most of the users in the classes I have been in are not "C" programmers. They just want a simple list they can work with.…

  • Title Block Integration and MicroStation V7 Work mode

    Picture the following:  Users utilize ProjectWise XM (8.9.X) to manage their project data, and utilize MicroStation XM to work with their design data. Those same users also have to manage and to work with MicroStation V7 files, and they must remain in V7 format. Hence, they run in XM in V7 work mode for those particular design files. Those same users also want to take advantage of the attribute exchange with ProjectWise…

  • Simple Reports

    Combining search and personal view in ProjectWise is one way of having nice and simple report. Let me present one about how to make "My created files over last month" report. First of all you need to consider what information you would like to see. In this example report will present files that were created by my over last month. Use ProjectWise search tool to gather this information. You can make a search based on…

  • Decyphering Sharepoint Runtime Errors

    Have you ever gotten a Runtime Error in SharePoint and wish it would give you more information to go about troubleshooting it?

    If you look at the image above, you'll notice it doesn't actually tell you anything substantial about the error. It just states for you to amend your web.config file so that the error message can be displayed.

    In order to accomplish this, you need to locate the correct web.config file…

  • Program Associations in ProjectWise

    If the ProjectWise administrator has set up for text files to be launched with Notepad, don't worry - as a ProjectWise user you can reassociate different application without bothering the administrator.  In my case, I prefer opening Text in WordPad rather than Notepad...

    • It is reachable via Tools->Associations-> Programs...

    • Select user associations and pick application and its action... pick…

  • Custom Extensions in ProjectWise

    I have noticed that I have lots of files to which I gave a custom extension (*.procedure), they are all text files and I keep my database stored procedures in them. I thought it would be handy to have them all in one place and that ProjectWise would automatically recognize them as "Text", not as "unknown", because then I have to choose the Application manually, this takes my precious time. So every ProjectWise user…

  • Remember me

    There is a nice feature when opening integrated applications from the desktop to get you logged into the datasource without asking login credentials. When you first time open application you get a login into datasource dialog. When you enter user name and password "Auto-login to this datasource the next time I work with this application" checkbox gets enabled. This option lets you to remember login credentials for this…

  • The end is near!

    IPv6 is the next generation of Internet addressing. The current IPv4 system will run out of addresses in late 2010 to early 2011. Once this happens, the industry has no choice but to switch to the new addressing that has been around for about 10 year but has less that 0.5% adoption in the United States. Russia leads the charge with 0.76%. Bottom line, nobody uses it yet, even though many operating systems have supported…

  • Jr. Administrator

    When installing the ProjectWise Administrator module, I am sure you have all noticed that you can perform either a ‘Typical' or ‘Custom' installation. And, like many ProjectWise administrators, you probably select one and simply move forward without much thought. However, you might want to take a moment and review the available Custom options.

    A custom ProjectWise Administrator installation is an excellent…