Basic document properties can be viewed in the Preview Pane area in the bottom right hand corner of the ProjectWise Explorer. More detailed document properties can be viewed by right-clicking on the document, then navigating to Properties or by highlighting the document and pressing the space bar
In general, document properties contain information about a document that is automatically populated and can’t be entered manually. There are some exceptions to this definition but it helps to understand how ProjectWise works if you think of properties in this way. ProjectWise attributes on the other hand are extra custom data fields generally used to [...]
Request for restoration of a document is outline in the ProjectWise File Recovery (link coming soon) workflow document located on the ODOT Website. Such request will require the following: User submits Help Desk Ticket to the Help Desk Help Desk will coordinate the retrieval of the requested document with the ProjectWise Team and post the [...]
Weekly full backups of ODOT ProjectWise data are complete and followed by incremental backups throughout the week. Since full backups can be time consuming and require large storage locations, OMES runs nightly incremental backups which backup only data that has changed since the previous backup.
This section describes the back and archiving of ODOT project data from ProjectWise along with project document recovery.
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 [...]