Occasionally, users will notice that some of their thumbnails are not showing up in the preview pane of ProjectWise Explorer and of course, a trouble ticket is put in to either the Bentley help desk or their local support team. Then the troubleshooting begins. It usually starts with "Is the extraction process working?"" So the ProjectWise Admin starts looking into the log files and in the ProjectWise Administrator for…
Using NT Authentication for your connection to your Orchestration Framework database? Running the ArcGIS connector? Getting errors trying to run the Job Status Service?
Following Part 1, you must run the Bentley Connector Job Status Services and Bentley Connector Operational Services under the same Windows account we discussed in Part 1. However, these services are not found in the Windows Services dialog. They…
Using NT Authentication for your connection to your Orchestration Framework database?
When you opt to use NT Authentication when connecting to your Orchestration Framework database, the Orchestration Framework will use the Windows account that you are logged in as when the DB Setup utility runs. Typically you would install your ProjectWise modules under a "Windows service account" created by the IT department.…
In some ProjectWise environments that use ProjectWise Spatial, ProjectWise Geospatial extension or Bentley Geospatial server the user might end up with overlapping geometries (several documents that have the same geometry, resulting in overlapping on a map). If the geometry is not overlapping then when you double click, right click on a geometry works as expected, but when clicking on a overlapping geometry a list is…
ProjectWise V8i much prefers the use of machine names, and better yet, fully qualified domain names, (FQDNs) when configuring dmskrnls for caching, gateways, etc. Another blog explains why, so we'll leave that as it is.
So after you've faithfully utilized the FQDN in the gateway and routing sections of your caching server, double checked everything and caching still is not working, go back to the ProjectWise Storage…
This blog entry will address how to add/remove toolbars and right click menu items from web parts. The configurations discussed in this document are not specific to ProjectWise Web Server, ProjectWise Web View Server or ProjectWise Web Parts used in a SharePoint enabled web site. Web Parts are web parts no matter the framework (i.e. asp.net or SharePoint) used to present them. When ProjectWise web Parts are deployed…
In addition to the dialog box that operates inside MicroStation, and the ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer interface that operates outside of the MicroStation environment, the product includes the IPLOT command line interface that you run from the command prompt. As with Organizer, using the command line, you can resubmit plots submitted from the dialog box and plot design files without displaying them in MicroStation…
When upgrading from a previous release of ProjectWise to the most recent ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 1) release, you should be aware of two items in relation to the applications stored in ProjectWise. The first is, after running dmsconv, it is a good idea to run dmsconv with the -app option to import any new application types into your datasources that are now supported in the current release of ProjectWise. Here…
Here is a quick listing of the changes to Web Parts in ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 1)