Greetings,
I will be assisting a startup design firm nearby to get up and running with MicroStaion/ProjectWise (PW) - most likely only one license of each.
Their filestorage is all in Microsoft OneDrive, a component of Sharepoint. For any projects on PW, they should be able to pull files, references, symbology, etc from the PW managed workspace. But for projects they may have not hosted on someone's PW, they will need a local workspace. How would one setup a local workspace for their use using OneDrive? I know it's possible to map OneDrive as a drive letter but it's also not advised (never mind having to log into every single PC with the credentials to map the drive letter). Has anyone got any experience setting up a Workpsace using OneDrive? One can open files from One Drive with no issue - but getting the correct symbology and such is another matter.
Any advice is appreciated!
Interesting question. How many users are involved? Are they logging into thier machines with microsoft accounts so all of the OneDrive sharing etc is handling by the login?
Will they be isnatlling on multiple machines?
With the addition of the OneDrive 'Always keep on this device option' ecah user should be able to have a local copy of all the files involved. The default path is long and tedious and will vary per user, so I'd suggest changing the local onedrive location to be the same for each user e.g. C:\_ONEDRIVE (or another drive letter if multiple drives are present to avoid filling a smaller SSD?).
You could then have C:\_ONEDRIVE\Configuration\ and C:\_ONEDRIVE\Projects synced by OneDrive and use our installer to point the Custom Configuration at C:\_ONEDRIVE\Configuration\.
These blogs may help:
CONNECT Edition - Custom Configuration - Part 1 : Initial Creation Steps
CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : Should I edit ConfigurationSetup.cfg?
Feel free to share more details and ask further questions.
Marc