ProjectWise Integration ServerWhat’s New in V8iMark HattersleyBentley Systems, Inc.

Agenda

• Overview of “Athens” Changes

• Demonstration

• Futures

• Questions

Major Themes for PW “Athens”

• Distributed Projects– Delta File Transfer– Data Compression– Read/write Web Parts– New Web View Server product

• Geo-coordination– Spatial navigation and searching

• Also addressed a number of usability and user requested enhancements

Delta File Transfer

• Improve Check in and Check out file transfer performance in distributed office environments

• Work with ANY type of file

• Leverage/strengthen existing PW technologies

• Uses well-known techniques for calculating differences between two copies of a file.

Delta File Transfer

Exton to Eastern Europe check-in times– (146ms latency)– File types tested - DGNV8, PPTX, DWG2006

File File SizeTime

Without DFT (seconds)

Time with DFT (seconds)

Performance Increase with DFT

File A 8MB 82.7 7.9 ~10x

File B 4.5MB 51.2 6.8 ~7.5x

File C 1MB 13.1 8.4 ~1.5x

Data Compression

• Compression of the “database” information sent to/from ProjectWise Explorer/Admin

• Significantly reduces the size of the data sent, improving performance on low bandwidth/high latency connections

• Examples:– Display all documents in a large folder(100/1000s of

documents).– initial login, Search results, etc

Web Parts Goals

• Provide a replacement for existing ProjectWise Web Explorer Lite– Web Explorer Lite(WEL) will not be delivered with

ProjectWise “Athens”

• Support either SharePoint 2007 or stand-alone IIS environments

• Provide a platform for customization

Web Parts Capabilities

• Check out/in

• Document/Folder creation/deletion

• Multi-document operations

• Export/Send to Folder

• Component Display/Navigation

• Short-cuts to documents/folders(URLs)

• Design Compare

• Spatial Navigation

PW “Web View Server”

• The "ProjectWise Web View Server" will extend any ProjectWise deployment by providing individuals with web browser access to view ProjectWise managed content. This will make it easy for any number of connected users to access and view work in a read-only mode using Internet Explorer. And as the access is likely to be infrequent, and will always be to consume rather than collaborate on ProjectWise managed content, there will be no requirement for a user to possess a ProjectWise Passport.

PW “Web View Server”

• Leverages the same PW Web Parts in a read-only mode

• Able to support both read-only and read/write sites on same physical server

• Requires a server Right to Run license

• Requires PW Publishing Server for viewing of DGN/DWG data

Spatial Integration - Goals

• Provide ability for users to associate spatial locations to documents/folders/projects

• Provide ability to visualize those locations on key maps

• Provide search mechanism to find documents/folders/projects based on their location.

Spatial Integration - Overview

• Integrating subset of existing PW Geospatial Extension to core PW

• Automatically delivered in PW Admin and Explorer

• Advanced Geospatial features will be available as an add-on product

• Only two change to feature sets integrated into PW IS:– Vector background maps can be

created without PW Publishing Server

– Allow user to select background map used for search

ProjectWise ExplorerUsability and User Requests

• Quick Search Bar

• Photo Preview

• Back/Forward Folder buttons in PW Explorer

• File Sizes displayed in KB in Content List

• Launch PW Network Config from tools menu

• Multi-folder Drag-n-Drop

• New Progress Bar

ProjectWise AdministratorUsability and User Requests

• Datasource Statistics

• Select Users by Group in PW Admin

• User Login/out Audit Trail

• Log-out command in PW Admin

• Environment Format fields (date; date,day; date,sec)– Date and Date,day only show date info– Date,sec also includes time

• Increased upper file size limit– was 2^32 bytes (~4 GB)– now 2^64 bytes (too big for me to think about)

Overall Integration Improvements

• Auto-login(SSO) for Integrated Applications– Launch from desktop Icon without login dialog

• Local XML file used to track reference file changes(attach/detach) during checkout

AutoCAD Integration Improvements

• AutoCAD 2008/2009 Integration and new features:– Datalinks– DGN reference– DWF underlays

• Sheet Set Manager Integration

• Session File Manager

• Installer support for AutoCAD Vertical apps

MicroStation Integration Improvements

• Managed Workspaces– Conditionals(If, then, else) support– UI improvements– Project Macros(relative pathing from PW project root)

• MicroStation Athens support– In-place Reference Activation– Dynamic View– etc

ProjectWise IS Athens Compatibility

Databases:

Oracle 9i

Oracle 10g

Oracle 11g

SQL Server 2000

SQL Server 2005

Server Operating Sys:

Windows 2000 Server

Windows 2003 Server(32 and 64-bit)

.NET 3.5

Client Operating Sys:Windows 2000 Professional

Windows XP Professional

Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit)

Applications:MicroStation 8.11, 8.9.x, V8.5.x,

V7.1.x

PowerDraft 8.11, 8.9.4, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x

ProjectWise Navigator 8.9.5

AutoCAD 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000

Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000

Project 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000

Visio 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000

Upgrade Path

• Must upgrade both clients and servers– Previous clients will not work with “Athens” Server– Previous servers will not work with “Athens” clients

• Side-by-side PW Explorer and Admin installations supported with:– ProjectWise V8 XM Edition– ProjectWise V8 2004 Edition– ProjectWise V8.1– Requires use of versionswitch.vbs

Performance Improvements

• Scan Refs

• Login

• Setting file and document security

• Search

• Synchronize users with Active Directory

• Integrated MicroStation actions (save, open, model create, model delete, close, change view)

• Reference file activities (attach, re-browse, detach)

• GeoPAK section creations

GeoPAK Performance Improvements

Operation of cutting 32 plan and profile sheets

• PW 08.09.04.63

• MS 08.05.02.35

• GEOPAK 08.08.03.24

• 32 files took 4 hr 9 min

• PW 08.09.04.89

• MS 08.05.02.35

• GEOPAK 08.08.03.29

• 32 files took 61 minutes

Futures

• Transmittal\Submittal workflow support

• Workflow

• Application Integration

• ……..

Questions?