Environment Attribute to display Document Name

Where are you trying to display the Document Name? In ProjectWise Explorer or elsewhere (Example: Document Properties > Attributes)?

Hi Matthew,

Yes, as an Environment Attribute to appear on Document > Properties > Attributes or ultimately be mapped to a title block or similar. 

Hi Matthew,

Yes, as an Environment Attribute to appear on Document > Properties > Attributes or ultimately be mapped to a title block or similar. 

Hi Lonnie,

If you are just looking to bind the Document Name property to a tag/field in a file for attribute exchange with a Title Block (or with a Word or Excel file), you don't need to pass it to an environment attribute. 

In ProjectWise Administrator, just set up the binding using the property type = Document Property and then select DocName or whichever property that you want to exchange with the file. These would be the same list of properties that are located on the General Tab on the interface. 

Hi Dave,

Sorry for delay in reply. Yes you are correct when it comes to the title block, we are doing this already. However if I want this to display on the Attribute page as well how can I achieve this? 

Hey I'm looking for the exact same thing! did you find a solution to this?

 JeremieDL  Lonnie Frater 

You would need to do this with a SQL SELECT statement. There are a couple ways to accomplish it, but doing so might be something that you regret doing in the future. Doing so would result in a static value that would not change if the Document Name changed ... Unless you also write some sort of custom automation, such as scheduling a PowerShell script to find and update the attribute value when it is out of synch. 

I am curious though... What is the use case for having the Document Name on the Attributes tab?

In my case is to have the attribute driven by the file name instead of having the file name driven by the attributes... I manage to find what I was looking for (Environnement variable to get the file name or part of it - ProjectWise Design Integration Forum - ProjectWise - Bentley Communities) I will use this to populate our title block.  We do this because the file name need to be partialy in the titleblock.  I know that to update the attribute of the file name we need to change or modifiy any attribute but so far it's working fine for everyone because we change the file name when we add a revision in the title block or if nothing is nneed to realy change, just add a space bar somewhere and projectwise will re-read the title name and upgrade the attribute.

What problems do you think we will face later on with this?