Navigation Pane appears on the left side of the ProjectWise window and is how you switch between the different areas of ProjectWise, such as the Work Areas/Folders. In addition, when you are working within a Content Pane, the Navigation Pane displays the active folders within that view. Content Pane is the most basic layout tile. Conceptually, it is the active [...]
Work Area/Folder Security Icon Permission Effect Folder inheritance status The folder has user permissions control. No user access control. Full control Sets all other permissions except No access, giving the user total access to the folder with all editing facilities. Change permissions If on, the user can change their own or other users’ permissions on [...]
ProjectWise copies documents locally to to the computer, this includes Microstation reference files and raster images. It is good practice to clean up these local copies on a regular basis. The local document organizer can be used to purge/delete the local copies. Before purging documents, be sure you check in all files to ProjectWise you [...]
The Local Document Organizer is a tool in ProjectWise that facilitates the management of documents that you are checked out, exported, or copied. Based on the status of a document you can use the Local Document Organizer to check-in, check-out, free, or update a server copy of the document. 1. Select Tools>Local Document Organizer [...]
To view a document using its associated software without fear of modifying the document open the document as read-only. From ProjectWise select the desired file, right-click, and select Open as Read-Only. When you Open as Read-Only, you do not check-out the document. See the section on Check-Out and Check-In for more information on checking out [...]
ProjectWise uses a Check-Out and Check-In process as the way to make sure that only one person at a time is modifying project documents. If a project document is edited by more than one person at the same time, there is a high probability that some modifications will be lost along the way.
To view the active version of a file: 1. Double-click on the desired document. This checks out the document and opens it using the appropriate software. Note: When a document is checked out from ProjectWise, the document is placed into a working folder on the C drive. When a document is Exported out of ProjectWise, the document [...]
Note:The double-click action is a user preference. The default action for double-click is to open a document. You can set the double-click action using the following steps: From the Tools menu select Options. Click on the Settings tab. Expand the folders for Document List and Double click action. Double click on [...]
Checking out documents should always happen from within the ProjectWise interface. Always start ProjectWise, navigate to the desired document, and double click to open/check out. When opening MicroStation first, the ProjectWise login dialog box, shown below, is displayed. Note: You can only check out documents for which you have read/write privileges and are not opened [...]