Any user who wants to use ProjectWise Web must have a Bentley IMS account in order to sign in to the CONNECT Center, and then must be added to the specific ProjectWise project or projects they want to access. To access a particular work area connection, the user must also be a participant of that work area in ProjectWise.

The users in a project are called team members, and can consist of both internal users and external users.

• Internal users - These are typically the team members who belong to your organization.
• External users - These are typically the team members who are outside of your organization - either they belong to another organization registered in Bentley IMS, or in some cases they do not belong to any Bentley IMS-registered organization at all.

Internal users are added to the project, and external users are invited to the project. Internal users will receive an email notifying them that they have been added to the project, and external users will receive an email inviting them to the project. The email that each user receives will contain a link to the project.