ProjectWise V8i SELECTseries 3 What’s New Arne Mortensen, Bentley Scandinavia A/S

ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 3)

Agenda – 64-bit AutoCAD and Revit Support

– AutoCAD and Revit 2011

– Administrative Enhancements

– Performance Optimizations

– Dependency Services Enhancements

– Navigator for the Web

– 64-bit native Web Server

– Miscellaneous Usability Enhancements

– Upgrade and Compatibility

AutoCAD and Revit Support

Product Version Support

• Now support 64-bit and 2011 products

• Revit Version Support:

– 2011 64 and 32 bit

– 2010 64 and 32 bit

• AutoCAD Version Support:

– 2011 64 and 32 bit

– 2010 64 and 32 bit

– 2009 32 bit

– 2008 32 bit

Supported AutoCAD Vertical Products

• Deliver the ProjectWise AutoCAD integration to the following AutoCAD-based products: – Map 3D

– P&ID

– Architecture

– Civil 3D

– MEP

– Raster Design

• For specific versions and 64\32-bit support consult BE Communities.

The integration provided for AutoCAD-based AutoCAD verticals is the same as that provided for base AutoCAD; ProjectWise does not provide integration for the additional tools and commands unique to each vertical.

Administrative Enhancements

Admin Enhancements

• Granular Administration

• Group/User List Management

• Simplified Access Control Interface in Preview Pane

• Install Over

• Audit Trail Improvements

• Available Storage Area disk-space dialog

• New Datasource Statistics

• Removal of BRG file

• Classless inter-domain routing

Granular Administration

• Allow organizations to delegate responsibility for certain administrative functions to specific users without providing them full access to all administrative functions

• Access to administrative functions set by node:

– Workflow

– Environments

– Workspace

– Etc

• Includes access to Datasource Properties dialog

Granular Administration

• New “Restricted Administrator” Group created during datasource creation or upgrade

• Only users from this group can be delegated to

• Things that Restricted Admins can not do: – Add/remove users from Administrators group

– Delete/modify users that belong to Administrators group

– Change “Use access control” user setting

• Administrator Group members retain full Admin capabilities

Granular Administration

Group/User List Membership Mgmt

• Allow non-Administrator users to manage membership of Groups/User Lists

• Available from PW Admin and PW Explorer

• Must be a Group/UL owner(or in Administrator Group) to modify membership

• Each Group/UL may have multiple owners

• Requires a SELECTseries 3 datasource for full editing capabilities from ProjectWise Explorer – SELECTseries 3 Explorers connecting to previous

version datasource will allow read-only access to this dialog

Group/User List Membership Mgmt

View Groups/UL by Folder

Search Capabilities

Group/User List Ownership

• Only Owners or Administrators can modify Group/UL membership

• Or see membership

• Owners can be set by Administrators

• Either in Admin or User/Group Mgmt Dialog

• User Setting allowing ownership

Simplified Access Control Interface

• Provides easier user experience for reviewing and setting access control for projects, folders and documents

• Does not provide any additional editing rights beyond what is already available to user

• Provides mechanism for applying access control templates

• Apply settings to other folders

• Export/Import access control settings

Access Control Editor UI

Export/Import Access Control Settings

Install Over

• Avoids un-install/install 2 step process

• Works between SELECTseries releases, but not between major releases

• PW Explorer still supports Side-by-Side installation for major releases

• Supports automated install mechanisms (SMS, msiexec scripts, etc)

• Does change the way version numbers are written to Add/Remove programs – Shows 8.11.9001 vs 8.11.9.01

Install Over Details

For V8i (SELECTseries 3) only certain modules support Install Over: – ProjectWise Explorer

– ProjectWise Administrator

– ProjectWise Caching Server

– ProjectWise Gateway Service

• Remaining modules require un-installation and re-installation to upgrade to SELECTseries 3 – Typically because they require multiple modules on

same machine

Audit Trail improvements

• Granular Truncation Rules by type

• New Audit Trail Categories

• Add DMS folder id and Storage Area name to record

• Report on larger folder trees

• Adds ~0.5K per record to DB storage

New Audit Trail Config User Interface

• Re-organized to provide more control

• New sub-dialog for configuring Audit Trail logging and truncation settings

Audit Trail - Truncation Rules

• Set different truncation rules for different object types

Audit Trail – New Categories

• Track access control changes to folders/documents

• Track changes to group/user list membership

Audit Trail - Misc Improvements

• Add DMS folder ID and storage area name to deletion action record

Audit Trail - Misc Improvements

• Report on larger folder trees – Removes limitation on

showing audit trail for large numbers of folders

• Adds ~0.5K per record to DB storage – Due to increased

information stored

Available space in Storage Areas

• Both from PW Admin and Explorer

New Datasource Statistics

• Total size of documents being managed

• Inactive users

• Users that never logged in

• Last time database statistics updated – RDMS statistics can

have a major impact on PW performance

Removal of BRG file

• Settings previously in BRG file moved to Windows Registry

• Most settings moved to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer

• Provides for easier administration of default settings

• No migration of existing BRG settings

BRG to Registry Settings mapping BRG Setting Registry Location

USTATION INTEGRATION HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\USTATION INTEGRATION”

Messenger HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\Messenger

{Datasource name}\Misc Settings\LastSeedProject

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\Misc Settings\{datasource name}\LastSeedProject

SETTINGS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\GlobalSettings

MISC SETTINGS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\MISC SETTINGS

DataBase HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\DataBase

AttrForm Settings HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\AttrForm Settings

POSITIONS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\POSITIONS

ICONS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\ICONS

POSITIONS\IDESKTOPLOGIN HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Core\POSITIONS\IDESKTOPLOGIN

Last Projects HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\Last Projects

SEND_TO HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\MENUCTRL\SEND_TO

BRIEFCASE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\BRIEFCASE

DocListSort HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\DocListSort

Wizard Manager HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\Wizard Manager

BULKLOADER HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\BULKLOADER

GUI\POSITIONS\LISTS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\POSITIONS\LISTS

SEL_USER_BY_GROUP_DLG\POSITIONS

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Administrator\POSITIONS\SEL_USER_BY_GROUP_DLG

SEL_USER_BY_GROUP_DLG HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Administrator\SEL_USER_BY_GROUP_DLG

DCW HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\DCW

PWCE\MAIN_FRAME HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\POSITIONS\PWCE\MAIN_FRAME

TitleBlocks HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\TitleBlocks

TITLE BLOCK TOOLS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bentley\ProjectWise Explorer\TITLE BLOCK TOOLS

Classless Inter-domain Routing Support

• Is used to divide larger classes of IP addresses into smaller, manageable chunks.

• Can now be used in ALLOW/DENY masks in the DMSKRNL.CFG

• Example:

Old way:

PWISSERVER=PWCSSERVER[Allow(192.168.23.*,192.168.24.*,192.168.25.*,192.168.26.*,192.168.27.*,192.168.28.*,192.168.29.*,192.168.30.*)] New Way: PWISSERVER=PWCSSERVER[Allow(192.168.23.0/21)]

• See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing

ProjectWise Dependency Services

ProjectWise Dependency Services

• Introduces several enhancements: – Import/Export dependency maps and linked document

– Nest depth for reference file display based on master file settings

– Show list of documents linked to selected blocks in Search results or new window

Dynamic Nest Depth from File

Show linked files for selected blocks

ProjectWise Navigator Web Part ProjectWise Web and Web View Servers V8i SELECTseries3

Dynamic Review for Web

ProjectWise Navigator Web Part

enables distributed infrastructure project teams

to improve collaboration with

clients, partners, fabricators and construction teams

via web based 3D and 2D model reviews

• SharePoint 2010, 2007 and stand-alone IIS integration

• Interactive 3D model visualization

• 2D plan set review

• Simple analysis capabilities: content search, dimension measuring, business data review.

ProjectWise Navigator Web Part

Interactive 3D / 2D Viewing

inside a browser

Integrated with ProjectWise workflow

Free text search &

Simple search builder

Dimension measuring

Business properties to review and

search by

Supports viewing 2D plan sets

Features list

• Interactively open, explore and manipulate i-models over the web:

– Web based GUI allowing to streamline setup and improve ease of use

– Integration with a variety of intranet and extranet portals

• Navigation and manipulation tools:

– Ability to select model to display

– Turn on and off references, levels

– Ability to load saved views

– Rotate view, Zoom in/out, Pan, Fit View

– Walk, Fly tools

• Simple analysis capabilities enabling:

– Searching for component items and reviewing business properties

– Isolating, highlighting and zooming to a selected component item

– Displaying business properties for a component item selected in a graphical view

– Measuring distances with complete engineering precision

– Printing the graphical view using the standard print dialog

ProjectWise Publishing Server and viewing DGN/DWG over the web

• ProjectWise Publishing Server is still needed to view DGN and DWG files over the web

• ProjectWise Navigator Web Part will not allow viewing DGN/DWG files over the web.

• ProjectWise Navigator Web Part can only view i-models. – To view DGN/DWG file over the ProjectWise Navigator Web Part – it

would have to be converted to i-model format first, using Microstation, I-model Composer or ProjectWise Dynamic Composition Service.

Current Navigator Web Part limitations

• Supports viewing operations only, markup capabilities to follow (preliminary targeted for the next release)

• Single file packaged i-models supported only

• Geo-coordinated references, using different coordinate system than master file, are not currently supported

• Point cloud display is not currently supported

• Embedded raster references are not currently supported.

• Dynamic Views are not currently supported

• i-models will not display textures as textures currently are not embedded in i-models.

ProjectWise Navigator Web Part licensing

• There is no additional license needed to run and use ProjectWise Navigator web part

• Standard ProjectWise Web and Web View Server licensing applies: – Appropriate server Right To Run license for the server

machine

– And ProjectWise Passport needed for each ProjectWise Web Server end user

– Passport is not needed for ProjectWise Web View server users

ProjectWise Web and Web View Servers on 64 bit platform Native Support for 64bit platform and Performance improvements

Native 64-bit ProjectWise Web Server

• Native support for 64-bit OSes introduced

• x3 performance improvement vs. previous releases of 64bit ProjectWise Web Server

• ProjectWise Web and Web View Servers now support up to 1000 named users per server – Or up to 100 concurrent users access server

simultaneously

• We are considering removing support for 32-bit Windows Server OS in our next SS4 release

– Please let us know ASAP if that might be a major issue for any of our users

Performance Optimizations

Performance Optimizations

• Improve user experience for distributed teams working over high-latency connections

• Scan for References

• File Transfer Connection Sharing

High Latency Performance Optimizations

• Optimize a number of ProjectWise operations when used in a High Latency environment – Typically reduces the number of request/response

roundtrips between ProjectWise Explorer and Integration Server

• Enhanced operations include: – Document List Display and Folder Navigation in

ProjectWise Explorer and Integrated Dialogs in Applications

– Login

– MicroStation File Open

– MicroStation Reference File Attachment

– Titleblock update operations

High Latency Performance Examples

Action (SELECTseries 2) 0 ms

(SELECTseries 2) 300 ms

(SELECTseries 3) 300 ms

Improvement

Login- last used

folder enabled 3 sec 36 sec 22 sec 64%

Select subfolder- in

PW Explorer content list or in integrated dialog

2 sec 7 sec 3 sec 133%

Display file list 2 sec 7 sec 3 sec 133%

File Open from PW Explorer- into MicroStation with titleblocks enabled

10 sec 59 sec 38 sec 55%

Update Titleblocks- from MicroStation

2 sec 44 sec 25 sec 76%

Copy out multiple files

6 sec 114 sec 94 sec 21%

Scan for References

• Improved pre-processing time on Oracle datasources with large folder structures

File Transfer Connection Sharing

• Reduce overhead when transferring lots of files

• Main benefit will be actions like Managed Workspaces with lots of smaller files

• 60%+ performance improvements possible

File Transfer Connection Sharing

• Time to launch MicroStation with Managed Workspace enabled – MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2)

– Managed Workspace with 14 CSBs and 1100 files totaling about 118 Mb

– Local network(no latency)

V8i (SELECTseries 2)

V8i (SELECTseries 3)

Improvement

Initial Open (copy out all workspace files)

6:33 2:30 65%

Second Open (validate workspace is up to date)

0:14

0:13 7%

Miscellaneous Usability Enhancements

Distribution Service Version Handling

• Better handling of multiple versions of same file in the input set to prevent overwrite in target location

Scan for References for DGN files

• No longer requires separate installation of MicroStation/PowerDraft/Navigator

• All necessary capabilities built directly into ProjectWise Explorer

• Exporting DGNs from ProjectWise supported in the same fashion

Upgrading to V8i (SELECTseries 3)

ProjectWise Client/Server Compatibility

Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 3)

Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 2)

Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 1)

Integration Server V8i

Integration Server pre-V8i

Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 3) X X X

Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 2) X X X

Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 1) X X X

Explorer V8i X X X X

Explorer pre-V8i X

PW Admin Clients must match server version

ProjectWise Explorer Toolbars

• Due to change in technology platform, all toolbars will be reset to default condition

• The impact of this is: – deletes existing custom toolbars

– removes custom buttons from standard toolbars

– Resets standard toolbars to default size and location

PW Explorer Installer

• Two different MSI files are provided for PW Explorer: – 64-bit version

– 32-bit version

• Even with the 64-bit installer, PW Explorer itself remains a 32-bit application, but will now support integration with 64-bit Autodesk applications.

Pre-V8i Upgrade Path

• Must upgrade both clients and servers – Previous clients will not work with V8i server

– Previous servers will not work with V8i clients

– Caused by infrastructure changes like DFT/Compression

• DMSConvert required – Fast process for XM datasources

– Drops tables and recreates them

– Mime type conversion need due to new support for Photo preview

Upgrading to SELECTseries 3 from previous V8i releases

• Client compatibility – See earlier slide

• PW Admin must stay in alignment with PWIS

• Please review the notes in PW Explorer Help about specific limitations when running earlier clients against SELECTseries 3 servers and vice versa

Upgrading to SELECTseries 3 from previous V8i releases

• All server modules should be upgraded together – Previous versions of V8i Caching Servers can be used

temporarily with SELECTseries 3 Integration Server

• DMSConvert is required – Can be lengthy process for large audit trail tables

• New “–force-cursor-sharing” DMSConvert option for Oracle databases – ONLY use when DMSConv is taking a long time (kill and

restart)

– ONLY use with Oracle databases

– ONLY use with a pre-8.11.7 database (8.11.5 or earlier)

Parallel Installation

• 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

• Not possible to install two V8i clients side-by side

V8i (SELECTseries 3) Compatibility

Servers

• Windows 2008 R2 64-bit

• Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit

• Windows 2003 R2 64-bit

• Windows 2003 R2 32-bit

Clients

• Windows 7 32 and 64-bit

• Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit

• Windows XP 32 and 64-bit

Databases

• Oracle 11g

• Oracle 10g

• SQL Server 2008 R2

• SQL Server 2008 SP2

• SQL Server 2005

Compatibility Table published in the ProjectWise ReadMe

V8i (SELECTseries 3) Compatibility

• MicroStation 8.11.x, 8.9.x, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x

• PowerDraft 8.11, 8.9.3, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x

• Bentley View 8.11.7

• Bentley Navigator 8.11.8, 8.11.7 (V8i SELECTseries 2)

• Bentley i-model Composer 8.11.8, 8.11.7 (V8i SELECTseries 2)

• AutoCAD 32-bit 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

• AutoCAD 64-bit 2011, 2010

• Revit 2011, 2010 (64 and 32-bit)

• Microsoft Office 2007, 2003

• Project 2007, 2003

• Visio 2007, 2003

Application Integration Compatibility table published on BE Communities at http://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/m/projectwise_gallery/146108.aspx and in the ProjectWise ReadMe

Dropped Support for:

• Navigator V8i (SELECTseries 1)

• i-model Composer 8.11.7 V8i (SELECTseries 1)

• AutoCAD 2006 and 2007

• SQL Server 2005 Express for Orchestration Framework DB

• Managed Tables

• Office XP

• Revit 2009

ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 3)

Questions ?