Data Shortcut on Projectwise

[shashimanandhar1417]

Hi

In ProjectWise, if we workflow (Change State - Approve) to another stage, the Civil 3D Data Shortcut file *.civilDSProj, would the data shortcut integrity between models and drawings be intact thereafter?

[Joe-Bouza]

Hi @shashimanandhar1417  not sure what change state approve is in PW but if you are archiving and moving forward with  a copied civil3d project it seems like the early stage would only maintain their integrity if the source files were maintained.

If I understand correctly you have a new stage and want to preserve the earlier stage  going forward? 

Myself, I would etransmit the early stage and keep going. Otherwise I think you would have to duplicate the entire project including civild projects and source drawings

[jrauch]

I'm following this out of curiosity to see how everyone else responds.

My gut says, "Try it and see what happens." If it doesn't lock to the particular version, it may be the case that it's possible, but your system is not be setup that way. Alternately, it may be that it's not possible to configure PW Admin to do that.

Gonna go grab my popcorn... C'mon Projectwise geeks, show me what you got!

[Joe-Bouza]

Am I understanding correctly? is it a versioning operation? archive? 

What is change state approve?

[jrauch]

It's a workflow function. So, you would change the state of a document from, say, Draft to Submitted for Review. And that change in state would trigger a set of (custom) events. So, maybe I set it up so that when the state is changed to "Submitted for Review," the file is now read-only except by the PM, and an email is sent to all team members, and all the files in the set are versioned. Then, maybe the PM changes the state to "Needs revisions" and that sets it back to writable and sends an email to the last person to edit it. We haven't implemented workflows yet, so I'm not 100% on what all is possible. But the challenge is that it's all customizable, so what "Approved" does in MY environment is likely different from what "Approved" does in yours.

[Joe-Bouza]

Wow that a big apple to bite. Sounds interesting but very complicated. I guess I have only scratched the surface as a PW user.  If users are implementing Civil3d work flows of source drawings and data referencing, ProjectWise can put a hold on a document even though the civil3d project data shortcut node is telling other documents that a source drawing changes and needs synchronizing? 

Not to be snarky but who are these PM's reviewing work 😮

Anyhow sounds like a great tool for the right team 

[shashimanandhar1417 · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

Looks like the problem has been sorted. If you right click on the *.civilDSProj file on projectwise and click on Properties click on "More Attributes". On Reference Status select Approved. Then you don't have to workflow  *.civilDSProj file to another stage. The integrity of the Civil 3D models will be intact.