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    ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 4) Integration Module for Microsoft Office 2013

    Bill.McNamara
    Bill.McNamara over 9 years ago

    ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 4) Integration Module for Microsoft Office 2013

    We have released support for Microsoft Office 2013 for ProjectWise. This is being delivered as an Integration Module “add-in” that can be installed on top of existing ProjectWise Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 4) installations. Below I have included the download description from SELECT Downloads with some additional information. The ProjectWise Explorer version 08.11.11.574 or later is required for this integration.

     

    Download Description:

    ProjectWise is software for connecting people and information across distributed teams and is used by architects and engineers to manage, find, and share CAD and geospatial content, project data, and Office documents. ProjectWise Integration Server is an enterprise-level engineering content management solution.

    The ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 4) Integration Module for Office 2013 download contains the installation package needed to integrate Microsoft Office 2013 (64-bit and 32-bit) with ProjectWise Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 4). The ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 4) Integration Module for Office 2013 provides the following capabilities:

    • ProjectWise integration support for Microsoft Office 2013
      • Word
      • Excel
      • Outlook
      • PowerPoint
      • Visio
      • Project

    Supported OS

    • Windows 7
    • Windows 8 (32-bit Office only)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Windows Server 2012 (32-bit Office only)

     

    Notes:

      • This integration module delivers ProjectWise integration support for Microsoft Office 2013 applications - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project. Users can expect the same level of ProjectWise integration with Office 2013 applications as they had with Office 2010 applications, except where noted here.
      • Having earlier versions of Office applications installed may interfere with Office 2013 integration, depending on the combination of applications installed.
        • Supported combinations:
          • Word 2013, Excel 2013, Outlook 2013, or PowerPoint 2013 installed next to a pre-2013 version of Visio or Project (for example, Word 2013 and Visio 2007)
          • Visio 2013 or Project 2013 installed next to a pre-2013 version of Word, Excel, Outlook, or PowerPoint (for example, Project 2013 and PowerPoint 2010)
        • Unsupported combinations:
          • Any Office 2013 application installed next to a pre-2013 version of the same application (for example, Word 2013 and Word 2007)
          • Word 2013, Excel 2013, Outlook 2013, or PowerPoint 2013 installed next to a pre-2013 version of Word, Excel, Outlook, or PowerPoint (for example, Word 2013 and Excel 2010)
      • Captive environment is not supported for Office 2013.
      • In all Office 2013 applications, the File > Export > Change File Type command (File > Export > Save Project As File in Microsoft Project) is not integrated. (Outlook does not have this command.)
      • In Outlook 2013, the following integrated commands are not working correctly and should be avoided:
        • Send To > Mail Recipient
        • Send To > Mail Recipient As Link
      • In Excel 2013, using the Insert > Object command on the ProjectWise tab may cause Excel to freeze or crash. Uninstalling or disabling Excel's Solver add-in will reduce the occurrence of this issue but may not prevent it in all cases.
      • In PowerPoint 2013 and Project 2013, exiting the application when a new document needs to be created will require you to manually close the application after the new document is created.
      • No additional help document is provided with this integration module; you can continue to use the ProjectWise Explorer help document delivered with ProjectWise Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 4).

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    • cweber
      Offline cweber Mon, May 5 2014 6:55 PM

      Hi Bill,

      Does this include Office 365?

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    • Bill.McNamara
      Bill.McNamara Thu, May 8 2014 11:13 AM in reply to cweber

      The official answer is we support the Office 2013 desktop products purchased via the Office 365 SaaS plans.

      Office 365 contains products that we can and cannot integrate with.  We currently support the "Full installed office applications2" however we can not offer support for Office Online (web Apps).    

      Microsoft defines "Full installed office applications2" with this note :  .2...Current Office application versions for Office 365 are Office 2013 for Windows ..

      Office 365 is a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model that has multiple support levels ranging from Home use to Enterprise.  Here is a link to the Microsoft site defining levels of capability. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/compare-microsoft-office-products-FX102898564.aspx

      If you look a the Office 365 for Business Plans please note that of the 3 plans, the small business does not offer the desktop versions and thus does not integrate with ProjectWise.  The  Premium and Midsize plans however do offer desktop versions and would integrate with ProjectWise.  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans-FX102918419.aspx

      If you look a the Office 365 for enterprise please note that of the 3 plans only the Enterprise E3 plan supports Desktop versions and as a result integrate with ProjectWise.  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans-FX102918419.aspx

      I hope you find this useful

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    • edersch
      Offline edersch Fri, May 30 2014 3:07 PM in reply to Bill.McNamara

      I applaud the effort but it's not yet fully baked.

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    • JackiS
      Offline JackiS Wed, Jun 4 2014 5:36 PM in reply to edersch

      CORRECTION to the this posting.  

      The Office 365 installer is different from a standard desktop version and without changing our integration installer it will not be able to see that Office is present on the machine.  Development is aware of the issue and will be working/beta testing a fix.    

      On a side note -widget/streaming of the Office 365 application does not support 3rd party ad ins, meaning Microsoft does not allow it. This method will not be supported.

       

      While all of this is confusing even to IT folks Microsoft Office 365 basically has 4 options:

       

      1. Thick client

      2. Streaming (no third party)

      3. Click to Run  (within this option there are 2 options). 

        • Giving all management to Microsoft to update
        • .msi package locally installed to server.  ***This is what we are looking for with our integration module.  The Office 365 click to run has directory its own directory structure verses the Office 2013 directory structure. 

      4. Web apps (no 3rd party integration)

       

      NOTE: If you are unsure as to what version you have you can check the registry entries on the machine as seen in the examples below

       

      A locally deployed Office 2013 that will integrate with ProjectWise registry entry would look like:

      (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\InstallRoot) is created with the defined path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\

      Office 2013 (Click to Run Office 365) Install Root also has a Virtual key in the registry as seen below. At this time the integration module will not integrate.

      *As a work around you can check a file out of ProjectWise make changes and manually check the file back in.


       



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    • Bob Hanson
      Offline Bob Hanson Tue, Jun 17 2014 11:26 AM

      Bill, for some reason I cannot find the download forf the Office 2013 Integration Module.  Can you tell me where to find it or send me a link to the location.

      Thank you,

      Bob Hanson

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