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    What is ProjectWise?

    Polk Draftsman
    Polk Draftsman over 3 years ago

    Since we are all working from home, we use VPN to work off of a remote server.  This is not ideal and many have to actually copy .dgn files to their workstation, make sure no one else opens the file, and then copy back to the server when done.  This is inherently dangerous.

    Is ProjectWise software that copies a file out of a server, locks it on the server, then copies back to the server when closed?  That is what we need to do.

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    • Phil Conard
      Offline Phil Conard Tue, Apr 14 2020 1:09 PM in reply to Polk Draftsman +1 verified
      ProjectWise is brand of many products and services. What's been described so far is ProjectWise Design Integration. It sounds like that's not what you are looking for. If you need a simple file sharing…
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    • Joe Rodriguez
      0 Offline Joe Rodriguez Tue, Mar 31 2020 1:51 PM

      Projectwise does exactly that, with the Projectwise Explorer Client installed on your computers, it manages the file transactions including the Microstaion workspace, models and REF files. It uses caching to help improve the transfer time. We use Projectwise extensively and with this new "work from home policy" it's helped tremendously. It does lock the file when in use and uses icons to represent file status. PW integrates with Office products as well so we manage all our project documents in PW

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    • Polk Draftsman
      0 Polk Draftsman Mon, Apr 13 2020 2:37 PM in reply to Joe Rodriguez

      I have tried watching the webinar sessions and in addition to being so far beyond my knowledge level, I can see that ProjectWise does so many things that our firm would not use.  We only need a way to work from home on .dgn files that copies a file out of a server, locks it on the server, then copies back to the server when closed.  That's it.  No document management, not retention policies.  Should I be looking for something other than ProjectWise to accomplish this?  I don't think I will be able to convince management that we need all of those other functions.  The learning curve seems too great.

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Mon, Apr 13 2020 3:06 PM in reply to Polk Draftsman

      If you want to keep everything as you do it now using windows file shares to access files, I'm unaware of any product capable of properly locking a file on the windows share copying it locally while locking the verion on the server.

      ProjectWise uses it's own file storage, clients and database to accomplish this. Most products that do this use a similar method.

      You don't have to use all the functions ProjectWise uses. For example we don't use retention policies. However what you are looking for is the definition of a document management system. You want to manage server copies of files while allowing local work so you're managing documents.

       

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Mon, Apr 13 2020 3:06 PM in reply to Polk Draftsman

      If you want to keep everything as you do it now using windows file shares to access files, I'm unaware of any product capable of properly locking a file on the windows share copying it locally while locking the verion on the server.

      ProjectWise uses it's own file storage, clients and database to accomplish this. Most products that do this use a similar method.

      You don't have to use all the functions ProjectWise uses. For example we don't use retention policies. However what you are looking for is the definition of a document management system. You want to manage server copies of files while allowing local work so you're managing documents.

       

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