What's New in PW Web?

January 2022

New Features

• Out to me – See all documents checked out to me and Office 365 co-authoring sessions that I have joined in a project. This feature requires the latest version of WSG plugin (10.00.03.460).

• Folder selection in Advanced search – limit advanced search to a folder. Active folder is automatically preselected.

• Improved simple search – simple search will perform all content and full text search. This is now the same as in ProjectWise Explorer.

• WebView links – Get link has an option to create a WebView link.

Fixes

• Attributes were not displayed in document list when document and view environments were different but column names were the same.
• Attribute panel was not updated when document was moved in WRE workflow.
• Dates in Audit trail CSV export were formatted incorrectly.
• Other bug fixes.

April / May 2021 update

• ProjectWise Drive (version 2021.3.x) enhancements:
  • When you have this version (or later) of ProjectWise Drive installed, selecting an Office document and selecting Start co-authoring session or Join co-authoring session will open the Office document for co-authoring in your Office desktop app instead of in a new browser tab. (Note that ProjectWise Drive only needs to be installed for this feature to work - the work area connection does NOT need to be synchronized with ProjectWise Drive, neither does ProjectWise Drive need to be running, for this feature to work).
  • If a document is currently checked out to you in ProjectWise Web, the document will now automatically become checked out to you in ProjectWise Drive:
    • either as soon as you synchronize the work area connection with ProjectWise Drive
    • or as soon as you sign in to ProjectWise Drive, if the work area connection was already synchronized but ProjectWise Drive was not running when you checked out the document in ProjectWise Web

    (In earlier versions, the document that was checked out to you in ProjectWise Web would be locked to you in ProjectWise Drive in these situations.)

  • When a document is checked out to you in ProjectWise Drive, you can sign in to ProjectWise Drive on any computer and that document will be checked out to you there.

    Note that the local changes you make to a document on one computer are not automatically available on other computers where ProjectWise Drive is installed, so you should try to only work on a document from one location.

• You can now look up information about the current work area connection by selected Settings > About current connection. The dialog that opens shows the following details:
  • Name of connection
  • Description of connection
  • Name of work area
  • Bentley Web Services Gateway (WSG) URL
  • ProjectWise datasource that contains the work area
  • ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG version
  • Bentley Web Services Gateway version
  • Browser version
• Menu items related to working on folders have been added to the action menu when a folder is selected.
• A menu item has been added to the action menu when a PDF is selected - Open in PDF Markup Service (you can also still just click the PDF to open it).
• The Advanced Search dialog has been improved, and now shows the environment that the selected property or attribute belongs to.

December 21, 2020 update includes:

Features/enhancements in this update require the ProjectWise Web Services Gateway Plug-in 3.4.This PW WSG plug-in 3.4 is now available on software downloads. Hosted users can request MaS upgrade with your account manager/Help Ticket.

• Document Creation Wizard  Requires PW WSG Plugin Version 3.4  - ProjectWise Web now has a Document Creation Wizard to help users create documents with or without document codes and attributes.
• New Office 365 Integration Workflow  - Users with Office365 Subscriptions can collaborate on Office documents with multi-user editing.                       
• Full Text Search   Requires PW WSG Plugin Version 3.4 -  The Full Text Search works the same as ProjectWise Explorer’s Full Text Search, searching inside documents and attributes.       
• My Advanced Searches - Users can now create advanced Searches and save them an “My Searches” for future use.
• Move documents with versions - Requires PW WSG Plugin Version 3.4  - Users can now move documents that have versions.

December 1, 2020 Update includes:

• Folder Navigation Panel - Navigate your work areas with a folder hierarchy, as you do in ProjectWise Explorer.
• Share Connections with External Users - Admins can share work area connections easily and invite external organizations and participants into a project.
• User Sync Service - When creating a work area connection in ProjectWise Web, users can choose to sync participants form that work area that are set in ProjectWise Explorer. 
• Searching Enhancements - Users can now create advanced searches and save them for future use. Users can also get links to saved searches to share with others. 
• Various defect fixes. 

 If you do not see the new features, refresh your browser and log out/in again.