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ProjectWise Design Integration Forum Can I send a mail to all my PW users
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    Can I send a mail to all my PW users

    Paul Haffmans
    Offline Paul Haffmans 3 months ago

    I want t o send a mail to all my PW users, eg a shutdown is planned at a certain time. We use IMS users. Is there a way to create a mailing list with all my active IMS users to send the mail to?

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Online Kevin van Haaren Tue, Sep 12 2023 11:34 AM

      You can dump the user list and pull the emails from that. 2 ways:

      ProjectWise Admin:

      1. Login to the datasource
      2. Right-click Users in the left pane
      3. Select Export List
      4. I prefer exporting to a Unicode Test (Tab Delimited)
      5. Open the file in Excel
      6. The Identity column will contain the email addresses actually used in their IMS account, probably the better bet than the email field

      PowerShell with pwps_dab:

      New-PWLogin -DatasourceName 'intsvr:dsource'
      $pwuList = Get-PWUsersByMatch -LoginInfo | Where Identity -ne ''
      $pwuList.Identity | Set-Clipboard
      
       

      That'll put a list of the identity email addresses on the clipboard. Instead of creating a group you can just paste those into the bcc field on an email (avoid those Reply All chains!). PowerShell advantage is it gets the list as it is right when you need to send the mail and if you've got everything setup for powershell is a lot easier than the excel route.

       

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    • Paul Haffmans
      0 Offline Paul Haffmans Tue, Sep 12 2023 12:05 PM in reply to Kevin van Haaren

      Thanks Kevin,

      Point is that I don't see a userlist or group containing all my IMS users.

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    • Luc Poulin
      0 Offline Luc Poulin Sun, Sep 24 2023 9:01 AM

      That was one of my request  to have a banner style implementation, where we can display a message to a certain group or all  or View X number of time before it disappear or an expiration date  and have Hyperlink in the banner participant can click.

      ProjectWise messenger kind of play that role, in a way that when you open PW you were notify that you have receive a message. However I think this will be retire at some point in the future.

      This will ease the communication between the admin and the participants. Hopefully the new BIC will allow for such thing.

      P365-I-783

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    • Dave Cumming
      0 Offline Dave Cumming Sun, Sep 24 2023 8:18 PM in reply to Paul Haffmans

      Paul, 

      (Referring to Kevin’s post)

      The “Identity“ column lists the e-mail addresses that are associated with all the IMS accounts in the datasource. 
      There is no dedicated User Group or User List for IMS users (unless you create one). 

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    • Paul Haffmans
      0 Offline Paul Haffmans Mon, Sep 25 2023 4:03 AM in reply to Dave Cumming

      Thnx Dave, found it.

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