In this post, I am going to step through the process of adding addition columns to a reference file report generated using the Get-PWReferenceReportForDocuments. By default, this report does not include the document / file descriptions. I recently had a request to add this information to the report. This is one approach which does not… Continue reading HowTo: Add Document Descriptions to a Reference Report
In this post I will demonstrate how to generate a report for folders that meet certain criteria. We will use two bits of data to get only the folders that match our criteria, the folder must begin with a specified string value, and must have been created after a specified date. We will populate a… Continue reading HowTo: Generate Folder Report Using Two Criterion
In this post, I want to share how I used a range to select a subset of ProjectWise document objects from a collection to be submitted for renditioning using PowerShell. Keep in mind the following is the solution I came up with. If you have other ideas, suggestions, or recommendations that would make this better, easier,… Continue reading HowTo: Use Range to Submit Renditions Using PowerShell
In this post, I'm going to expand on what was done in the previous post, HowTo: Update Work Area Properties From SharePoint. In the previous post we gathered data from SharePoint, and based on the ProjectInProjectWise field value (Yes/No), we would update the Work Area properties for the corresponding Work Area. In this post, if… Continue reading HowTo: Create New Work Area Using SharePoint Data
I am getting more and more requests for assistance with getting data from a SharePoint site and using that data to update Work Area / Project Properties within ProjectWise. So, in this post we will look at one method of extracting data from a SharePoint site. Then we will step through the process of updating… Continue reading HowTo: Update Work Area Properties From SharePoint
In this post, I am going to show how to copy an Interface (GUI) from one datasource (source) to a second datasource (target). Most of us develop our ProjectWise environments and interfaces within a development or test environment. The problem is, how do you get the new interface layout to your production ProjectWise datasource? Not… Continue reading HowTo: Copy an Interface From One Datasource To Another
I was recently asked if there was a way to get a list of duplicate document names within a project. Reason for the question was that after running a Scan References and Link Sets, some of their design files were referencing the wrong document(s). The way the Scan References process works, as far as I… Continue reading HowTo: Get Duplicate Document Names Within a ProjectWise Project using PowerShell
