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Recently we have seen an increase of IT departments rolling out machines with 8.3 shortnames being disabled. Projectwise does not support disabling shortnames. It will be a problem installing ProjectWise and opening Microstation .dgn files as seen in…

Have you ever had .dgn or .dwg files that were renamed with a non standard file extention type (e.g. a .dgn renamed to a .dfw) and wanted to be able to view thumbnails for those files in ProjectWise? Here's how: 1. In Windows Explorer go to Tools…

We get questions about files that are slow to open from ProjectWise. The person calling feels that it shouldn’t be slow because “Leave local copy on check in” is turned on in the user’s settings. Looking at the user’s settings reveals that yes this…

Recently we have been blogging about some of the new features in ProjectWise V8i SELECTSeries 4. Just so the AutoCAD users won’t feel left out; here are some nice changes to integration for you too. There are a lot of small improvements that add integration…

Create many files from one seed file in Projectwise A user wanted to create a serious of files using the same seed file in Projectwise. Each file would be sequential i.e. file1.dgn, file2.dgn and so on. You can create many files from one seed using…

Server: 1. Register your SSL certificate on your gateway sever (this is something you will need to talk to the certificate vendor or your IT team whom can install and register it on the server) 2. On the Gateway Server/Caching navigate to ProjectWise…

When you upgrade your workstation to Windows 7 it can affect your Projectwise working directory. The most common symptom is that when you are working with integrated applications the check-in dialog will not appear. The problem is that the Windows…

If you are running FTR in a cluster with 2 or more heads and 1 tail there is some configuration that needs to be done so that Full Text Searches can work. Here are the steps: 1. Configure the heads/tail setup correctly and make sure all of the globes…

Did you ever look at your caching server and wonder which cache storage path came from which server? In the past only the IP address were listed, c:\cache\files\172.55.43.10-5800\. Well now in Select Series 3 there is a new switch you can use on your…

Many of you install ProjectWise Explorer using the msi through command line or a package system and customize your installation by installing specific ProjectWise features, or installing to a specific directory. Before upgrading to SELECT Series 3…

Have you ever wondered if you can open documents in ProjectWise for applications that are not listed as integrated applications? ProjectWise integration is defined for Microstation, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. However, users can still…

We get a lot of questions on how users can move their ProjectWise Database from one server to another. This is actually a very easy task by following the steps below: Make sure all of your users are out of ProjectWise then shut down the ProjectWise…

Many ProjectWise Administrator's ask if there is a way to optimize Document Processor. Many get confused what to add in the File Type Associations in the properties of each Document Processors. Well hopefully this will help you. First off something…

Back in ProjectWise SS2 and prior when a user did a large MicroStation Batch Processing over a list of different files the user would get prompted to check in each document after it has been processed. This caused users to not be able to walk away during…