Recently, I realized there is not a cmdlet available to update the Domain (SecProvider) associated with a Windows type ProjectWise (PW) user account. This is not a common setting to have to update, however, it obviously occurs. In this post, I will show the solution I have come up with. We will be taking advantage… Continue reading HowTo: Update User’s Domain
In this post, I will demonstrate how to generate a report listing all disabled accounts within a ProjectWise (PW) datasource and the number of documents they were the creator of. The purpose was to determine which accounts could safely be removed from the datasource without losing any data. Basically, if an account was not the… Continue reading HowTo: Get Document Count for Disabled User(s)
In this post, I will demonstrate another method of obtaining the full path of a ProjectWise folder(s). The idea for this stemmed from a post on the Bentley Communities site where a user took advantage of the dsql_GetSubFolders SQL function provided with the ProjectWise datasource. The problem was there wasn't an easy way to obtain… Continue reading HowTo: Get ProjectWise Folder Paths with the dsql_GetSubFolders SQL Function
In this post, we will be looking at the three new methods added to the ProjectWise Folder object with the latest release of the PWPS_DAB module (1.24.0.0). These methods offer a quick way to navigate to the folder within ProjectWise Explorer and to retrieve the documents contained within the folder or the folder and all… Continue reading HowTo: Use New ProjectWise Folder Object Methods
Did you know that there is a SQL function provided with ProjectWise which will return all folders within a provided ProjectWise folder specified by the corresponding folder id. The name of the function is dsqlGetSubFolders. In this post, I will show an easy way to retrieve all ProjectWise Folder objects for a provided Work Area… Continue reading HowTo: Get ProjectWise Folders By GUID Using dsqlGetSubFolders
