ProjectWise Geospatial Explorer Help

ProjectWise Toolbar in MapInfo

Installing the ProjectWise Extension to MapInfo adds a ProjectWise toolbar to MapInfo. This toolbar provides various commands that let users interact with ProjectWise from within MapInfo.



Tool Description Notes


Login

Used to log in to a ProjectWise datasource from within MapInfo. This icon is disabled once you log in. Because you can only be logged in to one datasource at a time in MapInfo, you must first log out of the current datasource before you can log in to another.


Logout

Used to log out of the current ProjectWise datasource from within MapInfo. This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.


Login Information

Used to display information about the active datasource connection. This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.


Open Document

Used to add data from the active datasource to the active MapInfo Workspace document (WOR file). Supported data types are:
  • TAB
  • Some raster file formats (BIL, BIP, JPG, BMP, TIF, SID)

Multiple selections are allowed, thus, more than one table can be added to the active MapInfo Workspace document within a single Add Data operation.

It is essentially the same as the MapInfo File Open command, except that instead of browsing the local or network drives for a MapInfo document, you browse the active datasource.

This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.



Save Workspace

Used to save the Workspace in the active datasource. It is essentially the same as the MapInfo Save Workspace command, except that instead of browsing the local or network drives to create the WOR file, you browse the active datasource and the workspace file is created in ProjectWise.

This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.



Save Table

Used to save the table to ProjectWise, if it was opened from ProjectWise.

Select one of the following Document Display Options:

  • Show ProjectWise and external documents - Displays the list of every file currently open.
  • Show ProjectWise documents only - Displays the list of files opened from ProjectWise.
  • Show external documents only - Displays the list of files opened from a local drive.
It is essentially the same as the MapInfo Save Table command. When the files are opened from a local drive, they will be saved on the local drive. But if the files are opened from ProjectWise, they will be saved in ProjectWise.

This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.



Add External Data to ProjectWise

Opens the Save File(s) dialog, which lets you select which of the currently open MapInfo file(s) you want to add/import to the active datasource. This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.


Close All

Used to close all open tables and all layout windows. It behaves like the MapInfo Close All command.


Export MapInfo Document

Used to export an existing MapInfo document from the active datasource. It is essentially the same as the Export/Send to Folder command in ProjectWise Explorer except for the following differences:
  • It exports (or sends) the selected MapInfo Workspace document and all of its constituting files (TAB, raster, and so on) to the target folder as does the standard export command.
  • It rewrites the data source (the path to the layers in the WOR document) of each layer to reflect to the export settings and the export destination.

In other words, after opening the exported file from the export directory in MapInfo, the layers will be loaded correctly if the export command was launched through MapInfo. On the other hand, the layers will most likely not be loaded correctly if it was invoked from ProjectWise Explorer.

This icon is disabled if there is no active datasource connection.



Error Manager

Opens the ProjectWise Error History dialog, which lists the ProjectWise errors that have occurred while connected to ProjectWise within MapInfo. Use the Clear button to clear the error stack. The Information (Error Manager) icon is enabled when errors have been recorded, and is disabled if no errors occurred, or after clicking the Clear button in the ProjectWise Error History dialog.
Note: When the ProjectWise Extension to MapInfo is installed, some initial configuration may be required in MapInfo to load the toolbar:
  1. Open MapInfo.
  2. Select Tools > Tool Manager.

    There should be a Bentley ProjectWise Extension entry in the list of available toolbars.