Bentley Map and Map Mobile, attaching .jpg and .pdf to features

Bjorn,

We are working to release Bentley Map Mobile and Bentley Map Mobile Publisher updates later this year that will include the ability to publish Bentley Map Mobile i-models that include document attachments, including images and documents. In addition an upcoming Bentley Map Mobile update will provide new redlining capability that allows mobile users to redline, markup and annotate i-models as well as capture and attach photos and videos then send back to the enterprise for use in Bentley Map desktop sessions.

What type of image and document attachments are you creating in Bentley Map or MicroStation that you wish to publish for use in Bentley Map Mobile workflow?

Hi Jeff.

Thanks for your response.

We are mainly attaching .jpg and .pdf files to points. These are either sketches or drawings of important points for water and wastewater system or pictures of open ditches with watermains and all kinds of pipes.

I'm not sure what kind of attachment type we use. We connect to an Access database through an ODBC. The attachment is registered in the access database and the attached files are stored on an online server.
The ideal way for attachment in Map Mobile would be if you could view these attachments without being online, e.g. if the files would be stored in the imodel, but I don't know if that is possible.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards,
Bjorn Magnus Arnason
Stod ehf.

Bjorn,

If you could contact me directly offline I would like to obtain from you a sample of the data (including attachments) you would like to publish for use in Bentley Map Mobile workflows.