Opening Datasources in ProjectWise Web View
To get to ProjectWise Web View, go to the CONNECT Center (https://connect.bentley.com) and click the ProjectWise Web View tile at the bottom of the page. You can also just paste this URL in your browser: https://connect-projectwisewebview.bentley.com/
You can also access ProjectWise Web View from a mobile device, however this is not actively supported.
Your cloud services administrator determines which ProjectWise datasources are available in ProjectWise Web View, by adding a connection to each datasource they want to make available in ProjectWise Web View. (See Adding Datasource Connections to ProjectWise Web View.)
Any user with an active account in the datasource can open a datasource that has been made available in ProjectWise Web View. Opening a datasource gives you read-only access to the work areas, folders, and documents that you already have permission to see. (Permissions are set in ProjectWise Explorer.)
You can log in to a datasource connection with a simple user name and password or with the credentials of your associated Bentley IMS account. To be able to log in with a Bentley IMS account, the administrator must configure the datasource connection to use Bentley IMS authentication, and the underlying ProjectWise datasource must already be configured to support this. When Bentley IMS authentication is configured, and a user with a Bentley IMS account selects a datasource connection in ProjectWise Web View, they are automatically logged in to the datasource.
Entering ProjectWise Web View
- Go to the CONNECT Center (https://connect.bentley.com) and sign in (enter the credentials of your Bentley IMS account).
- Click the
ProjectWise Web
View
tile at the bottom of the page.
Note: You can also just go directly to https://connect-projectwisewebview.bentley.com/ and sign in when prompted.
When you enter ProjectWise Web View, ProjectWise Web View will (in most cases) try to automatically log you in using your Bentley IMS account to either the first datasource in the list (for first time visitors), or to the datasource you were last working in (for returning visitors).
Once logged in, the folder structure of the datasource is expanded in the Datasources pane on the left. You can navigate the folder structure as needed in the Datasources pane. When you select a work area or folder in the Datasources pane, any documents and subfolders it contains display in the document list on the right.
If the datasource connection that ProjectWise Web View is trying to log you in to is NOT configured to use Bentley IMS authentication, or if your ProjectWise account is not associated to your Bentley IMS account, then the Sign In dialog will open for you to log in manually with your ProjectWise user name and password, or the credentials of your associated Windows account (if logging in with Windows credentials, enter the user name as Domain\User.Name).
Logging In to Another Datasource
If you open ProjectWise Web View and it does not attempt to log you in to any of the datasource connections in the list, or if you are already logged in to one datasource, and you would like to log in to another, just select another datasource in the Datasources pane.
Again, ProjectWise Web View will try to automatically log you in to the selected datasource using the credentials of your associated Bentley IMS account. If that datasource connection is not configured to use Bentley IMS authentication, or if your ProjectWise account is not associated to your Bentley IMS account, then the Sign In dialog will open for you to log in manually with your ProjectWise user name and password, or the credentials of your associated Windows account (if logging in with Windows credentials, enter the user name as Domain\User.Name).
