ProjectWise Web Enhancements
April / May 2021 updates include:
- 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.
New ProjectWise Web URL (requires CORS configuration update)
The URL for ProjectWise Web has changed and is now: https://connect-projectwisewac.bentley.com
To use this new version of ProjectWise Web, your administrator must redeploy Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise Plug-in (or manually edit the web.config file of the existing deployment) in order to add this new URL to the CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) list (the list of Bentley cloud service URLs that are allowed to communicate with Bentley Web Services Gateway).
If you still have older work area connections (those created in older versions of ProjectWise Share or ProjectWise Web), you can still access them by expanding the Connections tab and clicking the Open older PW Web Connectionslink at the bottom of the tab. This takes you to https://projectshareportal.bentley.com. If you still need to access these older work area connections, make sure your administrator does NOT remove this older URL when adding the new ProjectWise Web URL to the CORS list, as this older URL is still required in order to access these older work area connections.
July 7, 2020 update includes:
- ALERT! Saved View selection and grid column configuration Have been moved into one dropdown (See image below)
- Users can now define grid views and save them for future use. Find them in My View list and Manage them as needed.
- Added shift click for selecting multiple columns in the Configure Grid modal
- State, status, and workflow properties now available in column grid
- Bug Fixes
Here is where the new Grid Configuration and Views capabilities are located:
April 21, 2020 Update includes:
- Check Out/In - Free - Update Server Copy
- Filter advanced searches by environments
- See Saved Searches in hierarchy
- Version Display controlled per user
- New technology for improved performance
ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG enhancements
Some features in ProjectWise Web require an update to the ProjectWise Plug-in for Bentley Web Services Gateway. Below is a list of the latest releases and features of the plug-in that ProjectWise Web now supports.
ProjectWise WSG Plug0in Update 3.4
- Document Creation Wizard gives ability to create documents with or without document codes and attributes in a Work Area.
- Full Text Search gives ability to run Full Text Search, searching inside documents and attributes. (Same as ProjectWise Explorer)
- Move documents with versions.
ProjectWise WSG Plugin CONNECT Edition Update 3.3
- Ability to edit a document's environment attributes (Information panel > Attributes tab)
- Ability to apply existing global and personal views (personal views are created in ProjectWise Explorer, global views are created in either ProjectWise Explorer or ProjectWise Administrator)
ProjectWise WSG Plugin CONNECT Edition Update 3.2
- Ability to view a document's environment attributes (Information panel > Attributes tab)
- Ability to view "friendly" attribute names
- Ability to enter an audit trail comment when creating a new version (requires both of these user settings to be on: Audit Trail > Comments > Allow for version change and Required where allowed)
- Support for Workflow Rules Engine (WRE) commands (requires server-side processing of the Rules Engine to be enabled in ProjectWise Administrator, and requires ProjectWise Design Integration Server CONNECT Edition Update 3.2 or later)
ProjectWise WSG Plugin CONNECT Edition Update 3.1
- Workflow > Next and Workflow > Previous commands are added, along with the ability to enter an audit trail comment when changing the state (requires both of these user settings to be on: Audit Trail > Comments > Allow for state change and Required where allowed)
- Basic search includes work area in the results
- Advanced search can be done on work area data
- Saved searches will include work areas in the results