Datasource Properties Dialog - Settings Tab (Datasource Settings)
Contains controls for defining the overall behavior of the datasource. For some of the datasource settings, such as audit trail settings, once they are configured here they can be further configured by editing the related user settings for each individual user.
Global delete restrictions
This setting controls at the datasource level who can and cannot delete documents.
Miscellaneous
Work Areas
Network
Documents
Versions
Most Recently Used Lists
At the bottom of most applications' File menu is a list of files that were recently opened in that application. This is referred to as the most recently used (MRU) list. When MicroStation is integrated with ProjectWise, the File menu MRU list is also integrated with ProjectWise, so that you can quickly access a DGN document recently opened from ProjectWise. Integration with the File menu MRU list in other integrated applications is not yet supported.
The Address bar in the Open Document dialog that opens in integrated applications also contains an MRU list. The Address bar's MRU list displays all documents recently opened from ProjectWise, not just those opened in the application you are working in.
Setting | Description |
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Maximum number of recent items to show | This setting determines how many recently opened documents will be listed in the integrated application's MRU list. So for all integrated application, this affects the Address bar of the Open Document dialog, and for MicroStation it also affects the File menu MRU list. The default maximum number is set to 5. (For applications other than MicroStation, the File menu MRU list uses the application's own default maximum number.) |
Time period to keep records | This setting determines how long a listing will be kept on the MRU list. The default is 20 days. |
Engineering Components
These settings only need to be set if your datasource has been configured to use ProjectWise component indexing.
Setting | Description |
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Display Components in ProjectWise Clients | If on, a Components node will display below the Documents root folder in ProjectWise Explorer. |
Folder for saved component searches | Sets the folder that relational searches will be saved to when searches are run and saved from ProjectWise Explorer. |
Folder for component images | Sets the ProjectWise folder that contains the icons and gifs used for component classes. |
Web Components
Setting | Description |
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WSG Work Areas URL for Connect services |
A work area connection is a link from a ProjectWise project in ProjectWise 365 or the CONNECT Center (ProjectWise Web) to a work area in a ProjectWise datasource that exposes the work area in ProjectWise 365 or ProjectWise Web, allowing team members to access and edit their documents from projects in the cloud. The administrator of a ProjectWise project can manually add a work area connection to their project directly from ProjectWise 365 or ProjectWise Web. Another way that a work area connection can be added to a project is by installing Bentley Web Services Gateway (WSG) and the ProjectWise Plug-in, and then configuring the WSG Work Areas URL for Connect services datasource setting in ProjectWise Administrator. When these things are configured, the act of associating a work area to a ProjectWise project (which is done in ProjectWise Explorer) will automatically add the work area connection to the associated project in ProjectWise 365 or ProjectWise Web. To configure the WSG Work Areas URL for Connect services datasource setting, you specify the URL of the Bentley Web Services Gateway, including the path to the ProjectWise Integration Server and datasource that contains the work area(s). The important part of this configuration is getting the syntax of the URL right. The server does not verify whether or not you have entered it correctly, so make sure you enter it correctly! These are the basic steps:
Configuring the Bentley Web Services Gateway URL:
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Event System
By default, when a folder or document with spatial data is copied, the spatial data is not copied along with the folder or document. These settings let the administrator enable the copying of spatial data along with the copied folder or document.
Setting | Description |
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Enable folder copy server event notifications | If on, then when a folder with spatial data is copied, the spatial data is copied along with the folder. |
Enable document copy server event notifications | If on, then when a document with spatial data is copied, the spatial data is copied along with the document. |
Bentley IMS
These settings are related to Bentley IMS authentication, and the association of ProjectWise accounts to Bentley IMS accounts. (These settings do not apply to ProjectWise authentication or Windows domain authentication.)
Setting | Description |
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Associate identity with user account by e-mail address | This setting is used to associate an existing
ProjectWise account to an external account
(Bentley IMS or other), the first time the user logs in to the datasource using
the related external identity provider.
When this setting is ON:
... then that user will be automatically associated to their external account and related identity provider the first time they log in using the authentication type related to their external account (Bentley IMS authentication). |
Prompt user to associate identity | When this setting is ON:
...then that user is prompted to either:
Note: Like the
setting above, this setting also assumes and
requires that a user identity filter is configured.
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Allow user group membership updates by identity claims |
Turn this setting on if you want to allow ProjectWise groups to be synchronized with matching Bentley IMS groups. For synchronization to work, the following must be true:
See Synchronizing a ProjectWise Group with a Bentley IMS Group. |
User login control
Performance
Setting | Description |
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Maximum OR group count in Managed Workspace 'Relative Paths' query | This setting is not for general use. It is ONLY to be used by or under the supervision of Bentley consultants who need to fine-tune managed configuration performance issues involving very large databases. |