CONNECT Advisor


 Product(s):Promis.e, Bentley Substation, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management
 Version(s):various
 Environment:N\A
 Area:CONNECT Services
 Subarea:CONNECT Advisor

What is CONNECT Advisor?

CONNECT Advisor is a new service that will help deliver Adaptive Learning Services and is designed to provide in-application contextual assistance, including recommendations, short feature and workflow videos and personalized learning paths and knowledge maps. CONNECT Advisor will increasingly leverage Azure-based machine learning, to further personalize its assistance for each Connected User.

Based on the principles of Search, Browse and Feed, it simultaneously searches and retrieves product-specific content from:

In addition, it also retrieves and displays:

It then provides the aggregated information logically in a single location.

Updates

If a user has an older version of CONNECT Advisor, they will be notified of the updated version availability through the CONNECTION Client and install it from there. Get additional information on how to update by referring to the CONNECTION Client help section.

Alternatively, follow the process documented in the “Download” section below.

Download

You can also download CONNECT Advisor V8i from the Fulfillment Center using the following steps. Note: CONNECT Advisor is included with CONNECT Edition products and does not require this separate download.

  1. Go to http://select.bentley.com/FulfillmentCenter/ and log in.
    If you are redirected to a page for downloading free Bentley iWare and Bentley Apps instead of what is described below, you do not have download rights for the Fulfillment Center.  Contact your site administrator for Bentley products to request download rights. The site administrator is an employee of your company, not Bentley Systems.
  2. Click the Clear All button at the bottom of the filter bar on the left.
  3. In the search box, enter CONNECT Advisor and press Enter.
  4. Select the All Downloads link under CONNECT Advisor.

  5. Download the latest version by selecting the green download button next to “Bentley CONNECT Advisor (English) 32-bit”.

Installation

Note: CONNECT Advisor is included with CONNECT Edition products and does not require a separate installation.

  1. Run the downloaded executable file.
  2. In the installation wizard, select the Bentley product(s) with which to integrate CONNECT Advisor.
  3. The installer will install .NET Framework 4.5.1 if it is not installed.
  4. The installer will install the latest CONNECTION Client if not installed.

To open CONNECT Advisor

CONNECT Edition applications

In the main application window, select the button on the upper right of the ribbon near the Search bar:

Or, select File > Help > CONNECT Advisor

V8i applications

Select the CONNECT Advisor button from within the integrated software (Promis.e, Bentley Substation, or Bentley Raceway and Cable Management)

If this button is not visible, enable it by selecting Tools > Tool Boxes (CTRL+T) and setting the check box for CONNECT Advisor.

Manual configuration

If CONNECT Advisor has been installed on the workstation but "CONNECT Advisor" is not listed in Tools > Tool Boxes (CTRL+T),  follow the manual integration method described in the ReadMe.txt file found in the following or similar path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Bentley Shared\CONNECT Advisor\mdlapps\

Products Supported

CONNECT Advisor supports the following Electrical products, along with many other non-Electrical products

Supported Operating Systems

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and earlier operating systems are not supported.

User Guide

The User Guide for CONNECT Advisor is available after installation here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Bentley Shared\CONNECT Advisor\Documentation\CONNECTAdvisor_userguide.pdf

 Original Author:Ashit Gandhi