How To: Build ProjectWise Links

In this post I am going to show how to build document URNs and Projectwise Web links.

All of the ProjectWise related cmdlets are available using the PWPS_DAB module. At the time of this post, I am using version 23.2.6.0. Take a look at the help for each of the cmdlets to become familiar with their functionality, available parameters, etc.

• Get-PWCurrentDatasource
• Show-PWFolderBrowserDialog
• Get-PWDocumentsBySearch

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The first thing we need to do is get our datasource name. Then create a copy of it and replace the colon with ‘~3A’. This is used for the ProjectWise Web Link.

$dataSource = Get-PWCurrentDatasource
$datasSourceUpdated = $dataSource.Replace(':', '~3A')

Next we will select the containing ProjectWise folder and then the documents.

$FolderPath = (Show-PWFolderBrowserDialog).FullPath
$pwDocs = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath $FolderPath

Once we have the document objects, we can loop through them, build the URNs and WebLinks and then apply them to the documents.

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foreach($pwDoc in $pwDocs){ # break
    $pwLink = "https://connect-projectwisewac.bentley.com/pwlink/?objectId=$($pwDoc.DocumentGUID)&objectType=doc&datasource=Bentley.PW--$($datasSourceUpdated)&app=pwe"
    $pwURN = "pw://$($dataSource)/Documents/D{$($pwDoc.DocumentGUID)}"

    # Apply the new URN and WebLink to the current ProjectWise document.
    $pwDoc.DocumentURN = $pwURN
    $pwDoc.ProjectWiseWebLink = $pwLink 
}

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Experiment with it and have fun. Hopefully, you find this useful.