topic Re: File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up in Project data & BIM

File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2014 15:27:27 GMT

We are having a terrible time with everyone mixing up whether our latest and greatest file is our team worked file or our solo projects. we try to archive which ever is not most recent, but it doesn't always happen and inevitably some one always end up in the wrong file working on something out of date.

We cannot store Solo Projects on the BIM sever can we?

OR is there a way one can open a team work project and reserve EVERYTHING? so we don't have to screw around with all that teamwork stuff if we're the only person in the project?

I am trying to figure out a way that we can keep ALL of our project on the bim server so we aren't mixing up our files anymore.

Further more our Teamwork files are all so slow and awful that we are always saving them out as solo projects at the first opportunity because they are so frustrating.

Re: File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:12:28 GMT

No, PLN files as such cannot be uploaded and stored on a BIM Server (but it is possible to create PLN backups).

You can use the Teamwork\Reserve All command to reserve all elements in the Project File. This will reserve all elements, but other Users will still be able to create new elements.

Re: File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2014 18:58:57 GMT

Thank You Laszlo.
Where do I set up where I am saving these back up .pln files to? is that through the BIM server Control center?
or is it automatic?
I do see that I have it set up to save them, but I am not sure where it is saving them to.

Re: File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 06 May 2014 22:58:49 GMT

PLN backups are saved on the BIM Server into the same folder normal backups are saved into. You cannot specify the folder for them. You can download them from the BIM Server if you want, though.

Edit:
For example, if I have the BIM Server installed in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\BIM Server

Shared TW Projects are stored in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\BIM Server\Server Modules\1700\Projects

And this is on of the folders the backups of one Project are stored:

C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\BIM Server\Server Modules\1700\Projects\EF202662-5E9F-40D3-9230-3601F9527019\Backups

I can see the PLN backups saved for this Project in this folder.

Re: File Management - TW and Solo Mix Up

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2014 12:26:02 GMT

Thank You!