Teamwork/Viewset problem when sharing

[TomWaltz]

We have a project (Archicad 8.1 1410, Mac 10.3.2, 1.8 Ghz G5) that is currently a PLN with several viewsets created, each with several views.

When we "Share this project," only a couple of the Viewsets still show up in the .PLP file.

Is there something that we can set which controls this?

[JCovarrubias]

I have not found information relating to visibility rules of View Sets after sharing the PLN.

only:
"Each Teammate can create his or her own View Sets in the View Editor or Publisher mode of the Navigator palette. These sets can only be seen by others if the Teammate shares them.
The View Set pop-up menu at top right of the Publisher palette shows the status of each view set. The teammates icon indicates a set that belongs to others, while the open hand indicates a set that you created and shared with others, which means that they can see it. If there is no icon next to the name's view, this set belongs to you only and no other Teammates can see or use them.
You can share a view set by making it active and choosing the Share command in the pop-up menu next to the name field.
You can publish all shared sets, even if they contain views that are not in your workspace. When saving or uploading files, the location defined by the author of the set will be used. To save or upload them to a different location, select and duplicate the set.
[via Graphisoft Help]"

[TomWaltz]

That's kind of my point. There is only 1 team member who has logged into the job at this point, and he is unable to see any of the viewsets that existed before the project was shared.

[tsturm]

Dear Tom

Try when signed in as team leader or team member to share the view sets already created in the TW file. If you cannot see them as a team member then this will have to be done from the team leader. Open the Navigator window. Open the viewset window. There is a pop out window for creating, deleting or sharing viewsets. From here share all the view sets you have created.

Our office is new to TW. I have used this feature before, but not in some time. We are grouping our file outputs by the viewsets. For example, DWGs for consultants are in one viewset, Picts/Jpegs for web are in another, PMK for Plotmaker are in another. This way when a person publishes the views then they are doing it for a specific task.

After reading the precreated sets from Graphisoft, I was lost on the concept of Schematic, Design and Condoc viewsets. We have found that the contents of a set grow as the project moves from SD to CD. Therefore we have choosen to break them into different file types.

Anyone with another approach?

Also, not sure if Jeffery stated this, but the person who shares the viewsets should be the team leader at first. Then from there everyone will be a viewer. Note the graphics in this pop out list will change from nothing to a hand (sharing) to a set of faces (viewing). I discussed this issue with Jeffery at US Tech support about how to deal with team members creating viewsets and sharing them. Most importantly, what happens when that team member signs out from the project. What happens to their shared viewsets. Check the viewset settings as team leader from time to time to see if all the sets are being shared by the team leader. Perhaps this will be the correct process until Tech guys figur out if there is a BUG and how to correct it.

Hope this helps the process out. We were amazed that one day things were peachy then the next day no one could publish any of the drawings to Plotmaker. Now we are running again with an eye to the problems.