Bentley Communities
Bentley Communities
  • Site
  • User
  • Site
  • Search
  • User
ProjectWise
  • Product Communities
ProjectWise
ProjectWise Design Integration Forum What Search options are there for ProjectWise Web Server (no web parts)?
    • Sign In

    • State Not Answered
    • Replies 4 replies
    • Subscribers 63 subscribers
    • Views 3129 views
    • Users 0 members are here
    • ProjectWise Web Server search wildcards

    What Search options are there for ProjectWise Web Server (no web parts)?

    mike.lazear
    Offline mike.lazear over 6 years ago

    We are working with a client who has deployed ProjectWise Web Server (standalone IIS, no SharePoint web parts).  Their employees are accessing ProjectWise Web Server via a browser.  I'm trying to write up an explanation on how to do searching, similar to information I've given them for ProjectWise Explorer search capabilities.  Unfortunately I'm finding next to nothing when I look for this information. 

    What information I'm looking for:

    A clear explanation of all the wild card options.  

    Do the *, ?, %, _ all work the same way they do in ProjectWise Explorer?

    If not, what wildcards are there, if any?

    How is a space treated?  In PW Explorer it is an implied AND, is that also true for Web Server searches?

    An explanation of whether or not we can limit the search to be within a project or folder rather the entire datasource.  

    It doesn't appear that you can without using web parts, even in the advanced search this doesn't seem possible.  That's a huge issue for us if it can't because a search of the entire datasource can easily take 10+ minutes and end up returning way more results than desired.  It's also hard to tell from those results which file/folders are within the folder we are trying to look within.  Example: wanting to find a particular folder name "PLANT" within a single Project folder "ABC". We expect there are maybe 1-3 folders with the name "PLANT" within the project "ABC".  However, since the search is looking at the entire datasource, which contains a 1000+ projects what we get back is thousands of results.  Trying to find which of those results is related to the project "ABC" is possibly harder than manually digging thru the Project folder looking for what we want.

    Places I've looked:

    The help documentation - the explanation for each section of search is very sparse.  Nothing on wildcards that I could find.

    I've looked through the Bentley Communities ProjectWise site and didn't find much.  The following topic looked promising but as you can see there is nothing there:

    http://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/content_management/w/wiki/12229.search-projectwise-web-server 

    • Sign in to reply
    • Cancel
    Parents
    • mike.lazear
      0 Offline mike.lazear Thu, Apr 13 2017 6:12 PM
      I was thinking that my question above would be easy for a Bentley ProjectWise person.

      I've got to believe there is documentation somewhere on how to do searches via the web client.

      Does anyone access ProjectWise from the web client?
      • Cancel
      • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
      • Sign in to reply
      • Verify Answer
      • Cancel
    Reply
    • mike.lazear
      0 Offline mike.lazear Thu, Apr 13 2017 6:12 PM
      I was thinking that my question above would be easy for a Bentley ProjectWise person.

      I've got to believe there is documentation somewhere on how to do searches via the web client.

      Does anyone access ProjectWise from the web client?
      • Cancel
      • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
      • Sign in to reply
      • Verify Answer
      • Cancel
    Children
    • Jennifer Rolph
      0 Offline Jennifer Rolph Tue, Jun 20 2017 12:55 PM in reply to mike.lazear
      I'm also looking for this same information - I can't easily find any training or documentation on how to effectively search using the Web Client. I stumbled on your thread by chance. Did you ever find an answer?
      • Cancel
      • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
      • Sign in to reply
      • Verify Answer
      • Cancel
    • mike.lazear
      0 Offline mike.lazear Tue, Jun 20 2017 2:15 PM in reply to Jennifer Rolph
      No one ever responded to my question here or to other attempts I made to find an answer to this question. This leads me to believe there are no search options on the ProjectWise web version (aka browser) and that you must search globally and can't restrict your search.

      One option in searching would be to create Saved Searches via ProjectWise Explorer and then run the saved search via the web browser but that only works if the searches you need are static with regards to the parameters you are searching on. Note, the actual results aren't static just the parameters.

      There is the new ProjectWise Edge desktop app that fits in between ProjectWise web access and ProjectWise Explorer but I haven't worked with it yet. It might be a solution, but again it's a desktop app and not a web app.
      • Cancel
      • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
      • Sign in to reply
      • Verify Answer
      • Cancel
    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Wed, Jun 21 2017 10:48 AM in reply to mike.lazear

      we run projectwise web server from V8i SelectSeries 4. The help that comes with the site has a section on searching.

      they have a section "General Notes About Searching" that includes:

      • Projects, folders, and documents that match your search criteria, but to which you do not have access, will not appear in the search results list.
      • Projects, folders, and documents displayed in the search results list are the actual items, not just links to them, so be careful not to accidentally delete something from the search results list.
      • ProjectWise full text searches do not support the use of wildcards. If you do run a full text search using a wildcard, the wildcard will be ignored. For example, searching by “bentley*” will produce the same results as searching by “bentley”.

      (my web browser shows those boxes around the search terms. i think they're smart quotes but the characters don't display correctly for me.

      note the comment about wildcards is specific to full text searchs. If i do a web search on *.dgn. I get all the dgn files, so wildcards work for filenames.

      web searches can use saved searches, but the saved search has to be created in projectwise explorer.

      the advanced search options on the web site are pretty comprehensive.

       

      • Cancel
      • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
      • Sign in to reply
      • Verify Answer
      • Cancel

    Communities
    • Home
    • Getting Started
    • Community Central
    • Products
    • Support
    • Secure File Upload
    • Feedback
    Support and Services
    • Home
    • Product Support
    • Downloads
    • Subscription Services Portal
    Training and Learning
    • Home
    • About Bentley Institute
    • My Learning History
    • Reference Books
    Social Media
    •    LinkedIn
    •    Facebook
    •    Twitter
    •    YouTube
    •    RSS Feed
    •    Email

    © 2023 Bentley Systems, Incorporated  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy |  Terms of Use  |  Cookies