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[Archived] Project Review Forum Linking external data (.pdfs and video) Navigator or Composer - Which is the best place
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    Linking external data (.pdfs and video) Navigator or Composer - Which is the best place

    Jim Youngblood
    Jim Youngblood over 11 years ago

    Which is the best place, Navigator or Composer, to link external data (centrally loacated on our server) to elements... when the end intent is to pull this material from the model?

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    • Junaid Khan
      Offline Junaid Khan Fri, Jun 29 2012 3:01 PM

      You can create links to files/URLs/Key-ins etc via NamedGroups in either i-model Composer (within a Composition file) or in Navigator with both NamedGroups/ItemSets. Please refer to "Create Link on Named Group Dialog" topic in Navigator's built-in Help. Remember that it doesn't allow you to add links directly to element that are contained in the reference models.

      Can you explain your 'end intent' query a bit more?


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    • Junaid Khan
      Offline Junaid Khan Fri, Jun 29 2012 3:01 PM

      You can create links to files/URLs/Key-ins etc via NamedGroups in either i-model Composer (within a Composition file) or in Navigator with both NamedGroups/ItemSets. Please refer to "Create Link on Named Group Dialog" topic in Navigator's built-in Help. Remember that it doesn't allow you to add links directly to element that are contained in the reference models.

      Can you explain your 'end intent' query a bit more?


      This is a test

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    • Jim Youngblood
      Jim Youngblood Fri, Jul 13 2012 12:48 AM in reply to Junaid Khan

      Great response, thank you.

      Yes (over the past week or so) I do understand that I can link at both in i-model Composer and Navigator.

      With our end intended being to use a Facilities model (for referencing videos and data sheets at the element level), where these links must stay at the element and are vital to the turnover deliverable (the future use of the model), it seems linking at composer is best. These links (.pdfs and training videos) reside on our side, within Project Wise as do our models.

      We are grouping elements in a set, then linking to that set (example... Urinals on several floors, with the same model number, then linking the associated fixture's data cut sheets, recomended cleaners as well as subcontractor training videos OR Valves , then linking the associated valve's data cut sheets / recomended maintenance as well as subcontractor training videos ) Do you have any ideas which may add value to what we are doing?

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