Using ProjectWise Drive

ProjectWise Drive is used to sync ProjectWise projects with your computer, so that you can access and work on your ProjectWise documents directly from File Explorer or from your desktop applications.

Any ProjectWise Web user can download and install ProjectWise Drive on their Windows computer. Once ProjectWise Drive is installed and you synchronize a project in ProjectWise Web, the work area connection in the project that is enabled for ProjectWise Drive becomes available in the ProjectWise Drive node in File Explorer, and you can instantly begin working on the documents in your project as if you were working on files and folders on your local file system. You can open documents directly from your desktop applications for viewing and editing. From the ProjectWise Drive node in File Explorer you can download documents (or entire folders), check out and check in documents, and add new folders and documents to ProjectWise. Document creation supports the use of the Create Document Wizard for entering document code and environment attributes.

To get started:

Install ProjectWise Drive
Synchronize a project
Begin using ProjectWise Drive

No additional license is needed to use ProjectWise Drive.

Note: Most users should be able to being using ProjectWise Drive without any additional configuration needed from the administrator. Only one work area connection per ProjectWise project can be enabled for ProjectWise Drive, and the first work area connection that is added to a project is automatically enabled for ProjectWise Drive by default. Also, if your project already contains one or more connections, then the first connection in the list will be automatically enabled for ProjectWise Drive by default. However, if the connection that is currently enabled for ProjectWise Drive is not the connection that your users need to synchronize, then the project administrator will need to change which connection is enabled for ProjectWise Drive.

Note: For best performance and to take advantage of the latest features, make sure ProjectWise Web is using the latest version of the ProjectWise Plug-in for Bentley Web Services Gateway.

Note: For a list of the latest enhancements, see What's New in ProjectWise Drive.

Installing ProjectWise Drive

Synchronizing Projects

Working with Documents and Folders in a Synchronized Project

Enabling the Use of ProjectWise Drive in a Work Area Connection (admins)

Parent topic: ProjectWise Web and Drive Help