Bentley StormCAD CONNECT Edition Help

Working with ProjectWise in Standalone

Once the integration is enabled, user has the following options to perform on ProjectWise.

  • Login to ProjectWise: The first prompt that user gets during ProjectWise interaction is to log into a ProjectWise datasource.

  • The datasource the users log into remains the current datasource until you change it from Tools > Tools > Options > ProjectWise > ellipsis button.
  • Creating a new Model: Use File > New command to create a new model. The model is not stored in ProjectWise until you select File > Save. User is prompted to save the model on ProjectWise. Upon cancel, the user is given an option to save model locally.
  • Opening a model: Use File > Open command shows ProjectWise prompt first to open a model from ProjectWise. Upon cancel, local prompt is given to open a model locally. The user can quickly tell whether or not the current model is in ProjectWise or not by looking at the title bar and the status bar of the window. If the current model is in ProjectWise, "pwname://" will appear in front of the file name in the title bar, and a ProjectWise icon will appear on the far right side of the status bar.
  • Saving a model: Use File > Save command to save a copy of the current model to either on ProjectWise or locally, depends upon from where it was opened in the first place.
  • Saving a local model to ProjectWise:
  • To copy an open model from one ProjectWise datasource to another:
  • To make a local copy of a model stored in a ProjectWise datasource:
  • To change the default ProjectWise datasource:
  • Closing a model:
  • When you Close a model already stored in ProjectWise using File > Close, you are prompted to select one of the following options:
  • Importing files: User can also import files (e.g. Submodel, SWMM, LandXML, InRoads, etc) before any model is opened from File > Import. These import prompts will refer to files saved using ProjectWise simply based on if ProjectWise integration is enabled. The model that is created during this import is considered as a local model unless and until it is saved to ProjectWise.
  • Updating Server copy: In the Tools > Options dialog box, there is a ProjectWise tab with the Update server on Save check box. This option, when turned on, can significantly affect performance, especially for large, complex models. When this is checked, any time you save your model locally using the File > Save menu command, the files on the ProjectWise server will also be updated and all changes to the files will immediately become visible to other ProjectWise users. This option is turned off by default.
  • Opening a recent file: Models associated with ProjectWise appear in the Most Recently Used Files list (at the bottom of the File menu) in the following format: pwname://PointServer:_TestDatasource/Documents/TestFolder/example.stsw
  • Working with background layers:

In the SELECTseries release, calculation result files are not managed inside ProjectWise. A local copy of results is maintained on the local computer, but to ensure accurate results, the user should recalculate models when the user first opens them from ProjectWise.