I had a request to track what users are doing in Revit. Meaning, who moved, deleted, copied and some other tasks. Can this be done in Revit?
I have a lot of finger pointing going on and need something to track these types of changes.
Thanks for the help.
The journal files in Revit captures everything you do during a Revit session. The journal file locations are documented here:
The difficulty with journals is the fact they are not exactly "human readable". You can open them with a text editor and if you know what you are looking for you can find specific actions but it might be difficult. Not sure if it is going to be super helpful in the situation. Your time might be better spent in a conference room for an hour with the "finger pointers" in a session to work out the problems and open communication.
Or you can spend hours looking at journals to find out "what happened".
Journals are good for finding errors in the software but not so great for developing a case against a "finger pointer".
Is there a way to track total time spent on a model? This would be tremendously helpful to get real time feedback on actual hours spent on a model. Ofcourse it is not fool proof as someone could just leave the model open for days or over the weekend, but it is more reliable than billing numbers to track time on the model.
could this add in work?
http://revitaddons.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/free-workload-monitor-big-brother-add.html