Transcript ProjectWise Integration Server V8i What's New in 8.11.5.16

ProjectWise
Integration Server V8i
What’s New
Major Themes for Release
• Distributed Projects & Performance
– Delta File Transfer
– Data Compression
• Web Server Evolution
– Replace WEL with Webparts (no more JSP)
– Web View Server
• Geo-coordination
– Spatial navigation and searching
• Continued Usability Enhancements
Additional V8i Goals
• Better user\group management
• Support MicroStation V8i functionality
• Enhance managed workspaces
• Extend AutoCAD integration capabilities
ProjectWise Explorer
• Usability and User Requests
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Quick Search Bar
Photo Preview
Back/Forward Folder buttons in PW Explorer
File Sizes displayed in KB in Content List
Launch PW Network Configuration from tools menu
Multi-folder Drag-n-Drop
New Progress Bar
ProjectWise Explorer V8i
• Quick Search
– Users have reported frustration with existing search
tools being either too complex (form) or non-intuitive
(builder)
– Provide a search toolbar in PWE (Google-like)
– Text only – does not support dates
– Returns documents, folders, and projects
– User controls what is searched through search settings
ProjectWise V8i Digital Photo
Management and Preview
• Users are struggling with
management and viewing
of digital images
– Added Photo preview tab for
digital files in the PWE UI
– Images preview as users scroll
through the list
– To do so, entire files are
downloaded
– Also supports Office, PDF and
other (CALS) formats via IE
controls / extensions
• Not for large aerial images or
non-raster formats
(DGN\DWG)
New Progress Bar
• Less impact on performance
• User Setting to turn off
• Cancellable File
operations!!!!!
Scan References
• Now available from Folder context menu
– Right-click folder, choose Scan References
• Either MicroStation V8i, or V8 XM can be used as
Scan-ref engine
– For those organizations that do not want to have
MicroStation V8i deployed on any of their desktops
• New AutoCAD functionality
– Supports Sheet Set Manager relationships
– Supports DWG’s with DGN references
ProjectWise V8i Usability
Enhancements
• Updated UI to look more modern
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Dialogs\toolbars – obvious on Vista
Icons
Progress Bar
File sizes reported in KB
• Reorganized toolbars
– Navigation
• Back & forth buttons
– Search
ProjectWise V8i Usability
Enhancements
• New Toolbar Entry
– Network Configuration
Settings Panel
• Misc. Usability
– Project properties trigger
updates
– Autologin\logout of PWA
– Document list right-click
actions
– New system variables for
document and folder full-PW
paths
ProjectWise Administrator
• Usability and User Requests
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Datasource Statistics
Select Users by Group
User Login/out Audit Trail
Log-out Command in PW Admin
Environment Format Fields
• Date; Date, Day; Date,Sec
– Increased Maximum file size
• Was approximately 4GB (2 ^32)
• Now 2^64 (Yikes)
Project Properties Trigger Updates
• Properties defined by
a Select statement
now can be updated
as “key” property is
updated
• Prevents stale data
being preserved in
property values
Document Full Path System Variable
• Can be used to
populate environment
attribute
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$Document.FullName$
$Document.FullDesc$
$Document$
$Vault.FullName$
$Vault.FullDesc$
• Link to titleblocks
ProjectWise V8i Datasource Statistics
• Provides insight into:
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Counts of all datasource objects
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Users, groups, user lists
Docs, folders, projects
Workflows, states
Empty folders
Audit trail records
Access control records
Lots more
ProjectWise V8i Datasource Statistics
• Admins reported that they wanted
insight into the quantities of
datasource content
• Measure datasource growth over
time
• Also need more tools for support
• Abstract the database itself from
the PW Administrator
• Added a tab on the datasource
displaying statistics and that allows
for refresh and export
• Numbers refresh every 12 hours or
on-demand
ProjectWise V8i User\Group\List
Management
• Users by Group:
– Counts of group membership
– Counts of user list membership
– Selection of users by group or
user list
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All users
Connected users only
Enabled users only
Sort users to visually indicate the
entire group members
– Group actions
• Export properties of group members
to Excel
• Bulk-edit user settings
ProjectWise V8i User\Group\List
Management
• User Audit Trail:
– Added audit trial to user in
PWA
– Tracks login and logout
date\times
– Configurable using
datasource settings
• Added Date Created and
Last Login Date to the
User dialog in PWA
MicroStation V8i Integration
Improvements
• Managed Workspaces
– Conditionals(If, then, else) support
– UI improvements
– Project Macros(relative pathing from PW project root)
• MicroStation V8i support
– In-place Reference Activation
– Dynamic Views
– Improve Performance
• Titleblocks
– Update on Export option
ProjectWise V8i MicroStation
Integration
• Support the last four
versions of MicroStation
– V8i
– XM
– 2004 Edition
– V7\J
• Bentley Redline is
deprecated, replaced with
ProjectWise Navigator –
delivered with ProjectWise
• Titleblocks can be updated
on export
ProjectWise V8i Dynamic View Support
• New feature in MicroStation V8i
– PW Support - requires managed workspaces for
configuration driven workflows
– Supports dynamic view workflows from within
ProjectWise environment
– Leverages link-set and reference file integration
In-Place Reference Activation
• New feature in MicroStation V8i
– Allows for precision edit sessions in references, keeps
current view context (unlike reference exchange)
– Check out the reference file when activated
– When the “master” is checked on, all activated
references are checked in
– Can release the check out lock on an individual
activated reference if desired – checks the file in
– Check in dialog lists all files checked out in session
when the master file is checked in
ProjectWise V8i DGN File Management
Improvements – MS & AC
• Now use a local storage
mechanism that tracks reference
file, model, and link set changes
• Use an XML file in the
working directory of the file
checked out of ProjectWise
• XML file is stored in a
subfolder named “dms”
• On Update Server Copy or
Check-in the xml file contents are
uploaded to the server
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On free xml file is purged
• Dms folders can persist
(empty)
• Provides more secure
management and performance
benefits
ProjectWise V8i Managed Workspace
Improvements
• Dynamic project configuration assignment
• Conditional Support
• Improved CSB editing tools
ProjectWise V8i Dynamic project
configuration assignment
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Admins need a scalable solution
for adding new managed
projects to ProjectWise that does
not require manually adding new
CSBs
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Standardize project
configurations using relative
paths
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Use new configuration
expression to determine project
at run-time:
– $(dms_project(_DGNDIR)) =
moniker of project
– $(dms_parentproject(_DGNDIR)
= moniker of project’s parent
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All projects load with same
configuration – pointing to the
correct project
ProjectWise V8i Conditionals Support
• In XM, there is no support
for conditional arguments
in CSBs (if, elif, else, etc.)
• Added to V8i, primarily for
data driven workflows
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%include
%if
%else
%elif
%endif
%error
• Used just as in
MicroStation workspaces
ProjectWise V8i CSB Editing Tools
• Now have a large,
resizable editing dialog
• Dialog design is based
on configuration file
structure
• Can now assign
managed workspaces
to:
– Groups
– Multiple users at once
– Multiple applications
at once
Print Organizer Integration
• New Feature in MicroStation V8i
– Replacement for MicroStation batch print
– Not available from ProjectWise Explorer (yet)
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
ProjectWise V8i AutoCAD Integration
Improvements
• Problems related to integration, session file
management and new AutoCAD functionality
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Sheet Set Manager Integration
Session File Manager
Support for AutoCAD 2008
Support for 2008 data links and DGN reference sets
Support for AutoCAD 2009
ProjectWise V8i Sheet Set Manager
• Allow the sheet set
file (*.DST) to be
stored in ProjectWise
• Scan ref has been
updated to discover
and rewrite existing
paths to ProjectWise
paths
• Export not supported
yet (will be)
• Allows for SSM
workflows in
ProjectWise
ProjectWise V8i AutoCAD Session File
Manager (SFM)
• Users need better access
to managed documents that are
opened or referenced in the
session of integrated application
• Provides the user with some of
the functionalities from the Xref
Manager dialog, the ProjectWise
Explorer Local Document
Organizer, and ProjectWise
Explorer from within the
integrated AutoCAD session
• Need .NET 2.0 (ACAD 2004 and
later)
ProjectWise V8i AutoCAD Session File
Manager (SFM)
• The following actions can be performed
on files in the session file manager
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Navigation of the content in the SFM
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Locate the file in ProjectWise Explorer tree hierarchy
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Open
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Check-in\ check-out
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Update server copy
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Display Properties
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Display Audit trail
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Attach as reference
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Sort display by file name, file type, or ProjectWise
folder name
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Display the reference files hierarchy
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Display thumbnail preview of selected file
ProjectWise V8i AutoCAD Session File
Manager (SFM)
• The display in the SFM can be filtered to only
show Checked out, Copied Out, or exported files
• The reference file hierarchy can also be filtered
to include or exclude the display of referenced
images, overlays, or inserts.
• A display filter is provided to temporarily restrict
the display to files that meet the display filter
criteria.
Data Links
• Introduced in AutoCAD 2008
• Links AutoCAD tables to Excel spreadsheets
• Store content in ProjectWise as a set
Installer support for Vertical Apps
– AutoCAD
Architecture
– AutoCAD Civil 3D
– AutoCAD Map
– AutoCAD P&ID
– AutoCAD Land
Desktop
– For all of the above,
each release in the
range 2004-2009 is
supported.
General 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)
– Prevents synchronization issues when user modifies a
file by adding/deleting a reference, then chooses to
Free the document
Infrastructure changes
• IPV6 Support
• Datasource discovery changes
– More efficient
– Work better in very complex/large scale networks
Performance - Prior Capabilities
• ProjectWise Integration Server has always
supported the ability to manage files in a
distributed manner, across multiple file servers.
– However, files only existed on one file server at a time.
• ProjectWise Integration Server also provides file
caching to speed download of files
– Cached copies of files could exist on multiple servers
Performance - Prior Limitations
• Caching configuration does not address the time
it takes to check-in/upload modified files
– Files are always checked back into main storage
location
• Downloads, when cache is not up to date, still
limited by bandwidth, especially on large files
DFT Implementation (simplified)
Storage Area
PW Explorer
2. User checks out file rev 1.0
1. Storage Area has file rev 1.0
3. User edits file (rev 1.1) and selects
check-in
4. Server executes checksum
procedure on server file rev 1.0,
results sent to client
5. Client determines which sections of
local file differ from server file
6. Client sends those sections to server
8. Check in operation is completed
7. Server merges sections sent from
client with server rev 1.0 to
produce rev 1.1 on server
DFT – 21MB file times @100mbit
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Time-In
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Time-Out
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100 Mb
Add Line
Delete Line
Compress
Line
Add Parcels
Delete
Parcels
Compress
Parcels
DFT – 21MB file times @10mbit
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Time-In
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Time-Out
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Add Line
Delete Line
Compress
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Add Parcels Delete Parcels
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Compress
Parcels
DFT – 21MB file times @T1 (1.5mbit)
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Time-In
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Time-Out
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Delete Line
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Add Parcels
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Special Note on AutoCAD DWG
• DWG 2007 (and later)
– Lots of recent news about DWG 2007 not working with
industry standard network optimization technologies
– Caused by AutoCAD essentially re-writing entire DWG
file regardless of magnitude of changes
• ProjectWise Delta File Transfer
– Our (limited) testing shows DFT does NOT provide
significant advantage for DWG 2007+ files
• DWG 2006 (and earlier)
– DFT achieves similar results to other file types
Performance - Data Compression
• Compression of the “database” information sent
to/from ProjectWise Explorer/Admin
• Significantly reduces the size of the data sent
– Potentially upwards of 90% reduction
• Examples:
– Display large folder(100/1000s of documents).
– Log in process
– Search results
ProjectWise V8i USS Optimizations
• Four optimizations activated via system registry
– [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\S
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"AdaptToAccountSidChanges"=dword:00000001
"RecheckDeletedAccounts"=dword:00000000
"CreatetEnumeratedSubGroups"=dword:00000001
"IgnoreAccountsByRegExp"=".*$“
– Contact Support before messing with these
Access Control Cache
• Continued optimizations:
– Improvements to copy/move/delete of folder trees in
datasources with large numbers of Access Control
Records(dms_acce table)
– Optimizations introduce incremental updates of
memory cache vs reloads of entire table
Performance - Hardware Implications
• Process of calculating checksums and
determining differences between files is
impacted by:
– Disk I/O performance
– CPU performance
• This is the case on both server and client
machines
• Current generation hardware typically sufficient
ProjectWise Web Clients Goals
• Provide a replacement for existing ProjectWise
Web Explorer Lite
– Web Explorer Lite (WEL) is not delivered with V8i
• Support either:
– SharePoint 2007 Web Servers
– Standard IIS Web Servers (with ASP.NET)
• Provide a platform for customization
• Provide read-only web interface
ProjectWise Web Clients – Web Parts
• ProjectWise Web Server
– Read-write type of actions allowed
– Server Right-to-Run license required
– Passport required for clients
• ProjectWise Web View server
– Allows read-only access to the PW system, but no
editing/redlining
– Server Right-to-Run license required
– Passport NOT required for clients
ProjectWise Web Server
• V8i Web Parts Capabilities
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Check out/in
Document/Folder creation/deletion
Multi-document operations
Export/Send to Folder
Component Display/Navigation
Short-cuts to documents/folders(URLs).
CAD files viewing
Design Compare
ProjectWise Web View Server
• V8i Capabilities
– ProjectWise Web View Server provides unlimited
Browser-based access to view ProjectWise managed
content.
– Target Audience
• Infrequent / casual users
• Who need to consume rather than create/collaborate on content
– Thus, no requirement for a user to possess a
ProjectWise Passport
• Essentially, licensing is per-server
ProjectWise Web View Server
• Highlights
– Leverages the same web parts (as Web Server), just
limited to read-only actions
– Supports both SharePoint and standard IIS
environments
– Requires a server Right to Run license. Does not
require Passport for client access
– Requires PW Publishing Server for viewing of
DGN/DWG data
– Possible to deploy both read-only, and read/write sites
on same physical server
ProjectWise Distribution Service
• Added support for rendition of Word and Excel
documents
– InterPlot Organizer added support of Ghostscript to be
the processing engine for Word/Excel to PDF
• Adobe Acrobat is still available as an
option for normal InterPlot Organizer
client side use.
ProjectWise V8i Auto-login
• Users have reported desire to use SSO when
launching integrated applications from the
desktop
– Auto-login supports SSO and non-SSO datasources
– Allows users to register a datasource with an
application family, and by-pass login dialog from the
application
– Can register different datasources with different
application families
– Uses local registry to manage settings
– Can be disabled by machine administrators
ProjectWise V8i Spatial
• Purpose of ProjectWise V8i Spatial
• What is ProjectWise V8i Spatial?
• Spatial overview
• Benefits
ProjectWise V8i Spatial Goals
• Provide ability for users to
associate spatial locations
to:
– Documents, folders, projects
• Provide ability to visualize
spatial locations on key
maps
• Search mechanism to find
documents, folders, &
projects based on their
location.
ProjectWise V8i Spatial overview
• Feature highlights:
– Background Map display in ProjectWise Explorer and
Spatial Web Part
– Assigning spatial location to documents, folders, and
projects
– Document scanner for automatically assigning spatial
locations
– Spatial search of document and folder
– Thematic display of spatial locations
– Coordinate systems support
– SHP file support without need of ESRI license
Background maps
• Vector background maps can be created without
PW Publishing Server
• Not supporting raster streaming, can use raster
at one resolution only
– unless using ProjectWise Publishing Server
• Static CAD, dynamic CAD and DPR type of layers
supported
Background map layer options
• Static CAD layer
– Generates DPR file automatically during layer creation
– To update background map DPR file have to regenerate
it from CAD file manually
– Uses/requires Microstation to generate DPR file
• Dynamic CAD layer
– Generates DPR file on first background map access
– Automatically regenerates background map DPR file if
CAD file was modified
– Uses/requires ProjectWise Publishing Server
• DPR layer
– Uses prefetched DPR file
Assigning spatial locations
• Assigning custom spatial location manually
• Using spatial location scan tool:
– Using Auto-scan for CAD files feature
– Using Spatial Location Scan tool manually
– Using “Extract extent” feature
• Calculating spatial location for a folder
• Assigning spatial locations for a set of
folders/documents using SLF technique
Spatial locations display
• Displays location of
documents or folders
on background map
• Metadata-driven
symbolization with
legend control
• Display as points,
polygons, lines, and
with raster backdrops
• Can re-project
documents on-the-fly
Spatial Web Part
Spatial Searches
• Locate documents/folders/projects in a spatial
area
• Easily find information by location using search
builder and search form extensions
– Allows user to select specific/custom background map
to be used for search
What is ProjectWise V8i Spatial?
• Derived from ProjectWise Geospatial Extension
V8 XM
– 90% of the ProjectWise Geospatial Extension V8 XM is
now becoming ProjectWise V8i Spatial
• ProjectWise Spatial is now standard functionality
of ProjectWise Integration Server
– No additional software charges
– However additional services required to deploy
What ProjectWise Spatial is Not?
• ProjectWise Geospatial V8 XM functionality NOT
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Feature indexing (Spatial Components Indexing)
Geo-coding by attributes
ArcMAP iDesktop integration
Advanced background map content
• These features still require purchase of
ProjectWise Geospatial Extension
What is ProjectWise V8i Geospatial
Extension?
• ProjectWise V8i Geospatial Extension is an addon ($$$) extension to ProjectWise
• Advanced GIS functionality:
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Better/faster background maps
GIS-like client
Linear referencing support
Web Services support
Geo-coding by attributes
ArcMAP iDesktop integration
Changes to Datasource Discovery
• UDP only used for initial server discovery
• Server Conf details requested via TCP
• Better support for larger configurations
– Lots of name resolution settings
– Lots of routing configurations
• client only caches the address of the first hop
• Better flexibility with public/private addresses
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 needed due to new support for
Photo preview
ProjectWise IS V8i Compatibility
Databases:
Oracle 9i
Oracle 10g
Oracle 11g
SQL Server 2000
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server
2008**
Server Operating Sys:
Applications:
MicroStation 8.11, 8.9.x, V8.5.x,
V8.1, V7.1.x
Windows 2000 Server
PowerDraft 8.11, 8.9.3, V8.5.x,
Windows 2003 Server(32 and 64V8.1, V7.1.x
bit)
ProjectWise Navigator 8.9.5
Windows 2008 Server(32 and 64- AutoCAD 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006,
bit)**
2005, 2004, 2002, 2000
Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP,
Client Operating Sys:
2000
Windows 2000 Professional
Project 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000
.NET 3.5
Windows XP Professional
Visio 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000
Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit)
*subject to change
**Support Deferred until SELECT Update post commercial release
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
• Addresses many of the limitations of previous
parallel installations
– Network Config Applet version specific