topic Re: Ownership Request in Teamwork & BIMcloud

Ownership Request

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:26:04 GMT

Hello,
Here are the facts:
One project on BIM Server
I and another colleague are Lead Architects.
I'm online in the project, and try to get ownership for a wall let's say.
The other colleague it's offline maybe on vacation...

If i ask for element how do i get the permission if she is offline??

Thank you.

Re: Ownership Request

Erika Epstein — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:40:52 GMT

Assuming you don't want to wait for your colleague to return from vacation then have the administer kick them out.

Re: Ownership Request

owen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:19:15 GMT

Rule #1 for all teamwork users when leaving the office should be Send & Receive and then Release All.

We are pretty merciless about kicking out team members who have failed to do so before leaving the office for the day or on leave. Its tough but necessary.

Re: Ownership Request

Link — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:30:17 GMT

Or you could contact her and ask her for her password, and sign in with her credentials to release it. That's my preferred first choice if anyone happens to forget to release, which happens more than I hoped! I keep a spreadsheet of everyone's passwords (and their preferred workspace RGB color values).

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Ownership Request

owen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:04:25 GMT

Link wrote:
Or you could contact her and ask her for her password, and sign in with her credentials to release it. That's my preferred first choice if anyone happens to forget to release, which happens more than I hoped! I keep a spreadsheet of everyone's passwords (and their preferred workspace RGB color values).

Cheers,
Link.

Link .. you mean BIM Server passwords or individuals user account passwords (the latter is a no-no for us). I ask because AFAIK the changes are in the local cache so you need to be on that local account to Release (or am I mistaken)

Of course if you have access to their computer and local user account this is a better option. The kick-out solution is for situations where you do not have access to the local user account that has the cached TW file containing the changes .. or you just can't contact someone (like they are on leave).

Re: Ownership Request

Link — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:56:06 GMT

There's probably not much in it mate. This is the way I understand it (and I may be mistaken!:wink:😞

Reservations are instant, unlike model changes which require a Send & Receive.

So it's no big deal to release something for someone. But when they open the project again, they will be prompted with an Editing Conflict, telling them that 'ArchiCAD had found they edited the project from another computer'. It provides an Edit Anyway button which means that any (unsent) changes made from the other computer (which is none as far as the model data is concerned) will be discarded.

But AFAICT this also discards any unsent changes on the existing computer, and effectively reloads the project data from the server (not sure about libraries). So it is much like a Force Leave, but IMO easier on the teammate.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Ownership Request

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:17:20 GMT

Thank you all for reply,
As I understand this issue depends how we choose to manage the work flow.

I was thinkin' to have an option to force this grant with admin password entered in the request without to reenter the project as admin or the missing user.

As always we have to use workarounds

Thx.

Re: Ownership Request

Erika Epstein — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:26:41 GMT

Link wrote:
I keep a spreadsheet of everyone's passwords (and their preferred workspace RGB color values).

Cheers,
Link.

This is an excellent strategy. Also, make sure everyone with access to it aren't all out of the office or on vacation at the same time.