Latest Enhancements

(September 2021)

• New feature, Go to Project, lets you open the current work area in ProjectWise Web (requires ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.4 R2 - 10.00.03.456)

  (see Opening a Work Area in ProjectWise Web)

(April / May 2021)

• You can now look up information about the current work area connection by selected Settings > About current connection. The dialog that opens shows the following details:
  • Name of connection
  • Description of connection
  • Bentley Web Services Gateway (WSG) URL
  • Name of ProjectWise datasource
  • ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG version
  • Bentley Web Services Gateway version
  • Browser version
• The Advanced Search dialog has been improved, and now shows the environment that the selected property or attribute belongs to.

Previous Enhancements

(January 2021)

• Quick search now supports full text search (requires ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.4 - 10.00.03.436)

  When running quick searches, you can set the default search to be either a basic quick search or a full text search. Basic quick searches look for the specified text in certain document properties (Name, Description, File Name, Version) and folder/work area properties (Folder Name, Description). Full text searches look for the specified text inside the file itself, in the file's properties, in custom work area properties, as well as in the document and folder properties searched by a basic quick search).

• You can now save advanced searches

  Saved advanced searches are only available to you, for use in ProjectWise Web. When saving the advanced search, you can specify whether the search is only usable in the work area connection it was created in, or in all work area connections in this project.

• View enhancements (under Column views > Folder views)
  • The Global view option (formerly Display global view) - dynamically changes the view as you change folders, based on whichever global saved view is assigned to the folder you are in (global saved views are created and assigned to folders in ProjectWise Explorer).
  • The Default view option - either applies a pre-set global saved view to the document list for the entire work area connection (if the ProjectWise Web View administrator has set a default view in the display options), or displays the default columns of ProjectWise Web View (if no default view is set).
  

• You can now navigate the folder structure of a datasource in the Datasources pane

  Once you log in to a datasource in the Datasources pane, the datasource expands to show the work areas and folders it contains. Selecting a work area or folder in the Datasources pane displays the contents of that item in the document list on the right.

  The datasource has a Saved Searches folder, which can be found in the Datasources pane after the last folder in the datasource. Each work area also has its own Saved Searches folder, which can be found after the last folder in the work area.

  
• The way that you access the Manage ProjectWise Connections page has changed

  There is a new Manage Connections icon (to the left of the Datasources pane) which opens the Manage ProjectWise Connections page. (It used to be a link at the bottom of the Datasources pane.)

  

(July 2020)

• The ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG is now a separate download

  Starting with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition Update 3.3, the ProjectWise Plug-in is now a separate download (https://softwaredownloads.bentley.com/en/ProductDetails/2693). Future releases of ProjectWise Server Setups will no longer delivered the plug-in. Also, Bentley Web Services Gateway remains a separate download.

• View enhancements (requires ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.3):
  • You can now create and manage personal views in ProjectWise Web View (see Changing View Details (property columns))
  • You can now apply global saved views that were created in ProjectWise Explorer
  • All settings related to configuring the view are now on a separate menu called Column views (formerly called Column Manager).
  • Added filters to State, Status, and Workflow columns in the view
  • Support for work area properties in saved views (if a work area document is selected and the applied saved view contains a work area property, the view column now displays the value of that work area property)
• Ability to display an item's description (if one exists) instead of an item's name, if the user's user setting User Interface > Show descriptions instead of names is on (requires ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.3)

  When this user setting is on (set from ProjectWise Explorer or ProjectWise Administrator), the following view property columns will display an item's description (if one exists) instead of the items's name:

  Document properties affected:

  • Created By ('Creator name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • File Updated By ('File Updater Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Updated By ('Updater Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Out To ('Out To User Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Owner ('Owner Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Workflow
  • State
  • Department ('Department name' in ProjectWise Web View)

  Work area / folder properties affected:

  • Created By ('Creator name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Updated By ('Updater Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Owner ('Owner Name' in ProjectWise Web View)
  • Workflow
  • State
  • Environment

(Prior to July 2020)

• Advanced searches now support searching by environment attributes
• The displaying or hiding of versions in the document list is now treated as user preference instead of a global setting
• View column filters - The document list now contains a filter above each view column where you can enter text in order to filter the list of items that are displayed in the current folder
• You can now provide suggestions or comments about ProjectWise Web View by clicking the User Feedback button (upper right corner of the ProjectWise Web View window) which takes you to an "Ideas" portal just for ProjectWise Web View where you can leave your feedback.
• Users who have a Microsoft 365 subscription can now open Office documents from ProjectWise Web View into a new browser tab.

These features were introduced with the ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.2:

• Ability to view a document's environment attributes (see Working with Folder Properties and Settings)
• For datasources, environments, and environment attributes, external names are now displayed for these items instead of their internal names, if an external name is available (these items are configured in ProjectWise Administrator)

These features were introduced with the ProjectWise Plug-in for WSG CONNECT Edition Update 3.1:

• Searches (including saved searches) now include work areas in the search results
• Advanced search criteria now includes work area properties