Change environment

Not in one shot. As long as any document has a row in the environment's document table the environment can't be changed. (Note that unless the environment has "create row in environment table" option turned on then documents won't have an entry in the environment's table until an attribute is assigned a value.

If you are OK with blowing away all the current attribute data on your files you can use Remove-PWDocumentSheet to purge the existing attribute values and remove the document from the environment's document table in one go. This includes attributes assigned to file versions.

Once you cleared the existing attribute sheets away you can reassign the environment with Set-PWEnvironmentByFolderPath

So something like (this is off the top of my head and not verified code):

$PathToClear = 'Path\To\PW\Folder'
# Get all files & file versions in all sub folders
$pwDocs = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath $PathToClear -GetVersionsToo
$pwDocs | Remove-PWDocumentSheet

# Now assign new environment
Set-PWEnvironmentByFolderPath -FolderPath $PathToClear -Environment 'New Environment' -SubFolders

If you want to move old attributes to new environment you'll have to get something that can export the existing attribute values, then tweak that to assign the values back into the new environment. I'm not seeing commands for this (but didn't dig real deep for it).

Kevin van Haaren said:

As long as any document has a row in the environment's document table the environment can't be changed. (Note that unless the environment has "create row in environment table" option turned on then documents won't have an entry in the environment's table until an attribute is assigned a value

Where do i check the "create row in environment table" option?

I went through many random documents in various folders and could not find a single instance of Environment property being listed when using a command like this:

$dox = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath $rootpath -Slow -GetAttributes

$dox

$rootpath = 'company\name\region\project\'


Write-Host "Retrieving sub-folders from $($rootpath)"

$subfolders = Get-PWFolders -FolderPath $rootpath -PopulatePaths

$masterEnv = 'Transmittals'

foreach ($subfolder in $subfolders) {
    if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($subfolder.Environment)) {
       
        Set-PWFolderEnvironment -InputFolder $subfolder -NewEnvironment $masterEnv
    }
   
}

In the environment properties

And this setting is per environment, not per folder.

Mark Weisman | Bentley Systems

And this setting is per environment, not per folder.

Mark Weisman | Bentley Systems