topic Re: teamwork and marquee box in Modeling

teamwork and marquee box

Aussie John — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:31:22 GMT

a teamate is assigned part of a storey (limited by marquee), but I can't get access to the area outside the marquee, how do I access this area?
Drawing another marquee box that covers everything else except the teammates area seems a dumb way to do it.

Re: teamwork and marquee box

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:25:28 GMT

It may seem dumb but I don't think there is any alternative (if you need access to the same layers). I suppose there might be something you could do with hotlinked modules but that seems dumber.

Re: teamwork and marquee box

David Larrew — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:27:09 GMT

Correct, once a Teammate defines their workspace with a Marque, all subsequent Teammates must also use the Marque to define their workspace on the shared Stories.

Re: teamwork and marquee box

KenMcN — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:14:49 GMT

And unfortunately you cannot even draw a large marquee and then cut a 'hole' in it to omit the other team mates area. You need to carefully work your way around the edge of the other marquees and avoid any overlap.
This was made all the more difficult for us when one individual decided to draw his marquee in the shape of a dog with lots of spiky hair! Fun to look at when signing in, but hellish to try to work with!

Re: teamwork and marquee box

__archiben — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:00:15 GMT

David wrote:
Correct, once a Teammate defines their workspace with a Marque, all subsequent Teammates must also use the Marque to define their workspace on the shared Stories.

david

this is not the case as long as the teammates with marquees leave some, (and the same), layers free. we are currently working with three of us signed in as follows: two of us have marquees covering each half of the building and the third is signed in to a series of layers that we have left for him across the whole plan.

Aussie wrote:
but I can't get access to the area outside the marquee, how do I access this area?

john

is your issue with the actual signing-in, or working outside of an area that you already have? as long as you have the relevant layers, you can create new elements outside of your workspace that remain assigned to you until you choose to release them for other teammates during a 'send and receive'

HTH
~/archiben

Re: teamwork and marquee box

David Larrew — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:20:45 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
david

this is not the case as long as the teammates with marquees leave some, (and the same), layers free. we are currently working with three of us signed in as follows: two of us have marquees covering each half of the building and the third is signed in to a series of layers that we have left for him across the whole plan.

Yes you can do what you are saying... If you do this,... And leave that,... And be sure to...

We found that working with the Marquee on the same Story works most efficiently when the teammate reserves ALL layers inside there Marqueed area. Much less confusion (and hassel). But to each their own...

Re: teamwork and marquee box

__archiben — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:23:31 GMT

David wrote:
We found that working with the Marquee on the same Story works most efficiently when the teammate reserves ALL layers inside there Marqueed area. Much less confusion (and hassel). But to each their own...

i think that it depends on the kind of information a teammate is working on. i agree that there often is confusion! however we don't want to limit teammates working on packages of production information whilst others are implementing major design changes in localised areas of the building.

layers/layer combinations can be tailored to specific jobs and the expected method of working. domestic jobs require a different construction documentation and management approach to retail jobs, etc . . .

~/archiben

Re: teamwork and marquee box

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:21:04 GMT

David wrote:
Correct, once a Teammate defines their workspace with a Marque, all subsequent Teammates must also use the Marque to define their workspace on the shared Stories.

David,

I know this is a really old post, but I'm curious as to why? (See above). I'm having a problem with users loosing their changes after a send and receive. This only happens when their workspace is defined by a marquee. Could it be that someone else has signed out whole stories while they are marqueed?

Thanks

Scott MacKenzie
smackenzie@cuh2a.com