The publisher is a pretty great thing, but it falls down for three reasons.
1. It doesnt address modern file transfer. Most practices use some form of file sharing like dropbox, one drive, etc. to send out their files. Once published we want to right click on a single folder and generate a single link and email it out. In the publisher you cant place multiple 'shortcut' folders into a dumb folder with an autodate. What the heck? I want a live folder of PDFs and a live folder of DWGs and a couple dumb links to my IFCs in a single folder so i can click publish once, and all of that goes to a single damn folder with an autotext name (<SHORTDATE> <PROJECTNAME> COORDINATION SET) for example. I dont want to write the damn date out every time i have to publish. and ive spend days trying every other permutation of that thing, and nothing allows me to make it a one-click publish exercise.
2. The publish button and [selected items, entire set, transmittal list] should be merged into one button in both Navigator and Organiser. The UI here is infuriatingly clumsy and because the tri list is hidden in navigator, you have to click it every damn to check what its set to. The reason for not having the organiser open full time is that it slows down archicad. Yes, thats still an issue, even on my 12th gen intel with 64GB ram.
3. the 'add shortcut' button doesnt mean anything to anyone. call it what it is. 'add live folder', or 'add live subset'..... anything that directly tells the user what it is and what it does, and doesnt allow users to unknowingly use only dumb folders for YEARS. There doesnt need to be an entire team of software engineers dedicated to useless help prompts, just make the damn software self explanatory.
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