1. ProjectWise Integration Server What’s New in V8i
Mark Hattersley Bentley Systems, Inc.

2. Agenda
Overview of “Athens” Changes
Demonstration
Futures
Questions

3. Major Themes for PW “Athens”
Distributed Projects
Delta File Transfer
Data Compression
Read/write Web Parts
New Web View Server product
Geo-coordination
Spatial navigation and searching
Also addressed a number of usability and user requested enhancements

4. Delta File Transfer
Improve Check in and Check out file transfer performance in distributed office environments
Work with ANY type of file
Leverage/strengthen existing PW technologies
Uses well-known techniques for calculating differences between two copies of a file.

5. Time with DFT (seconds) Performance Increase with DFT
Delta File Transfer
Exton to Eastern Europe check-in times
(146ms latency)
File types tested - DGNV8, PPTX, DWG2006
File
File Size
Time
Without DFT (seconds)
Time with DFT (seconds)
Performance Increase with DFT
File A
8MB
82.7
7.9
~10x
File B
4.5MB
51.2
6.8
~7.5x
File C
1MB
13.1
8.4
~1.5x
[Delta file transfer]
Perhaps it is easier to see the benefits of DFT with a table.
There are a lot of variables with DFT and it is hard to define a typical change, but here are some example results. We tested DGN, DWG, and office files between Pennsylvania and Lithuania. In general, the larger the file, the larger the performance gain – up to a 10x gain in this scenario. This makes sense because a typical edit should only change a small portion of the entire file. There is a binary algorithm beneath DFT, so this works for all file types. DFT means faster file transfers and more time to collaborate. 5

6. Data Compression
Compression of the “database” information sent to/from ProjectWise Explorer/Admin
Significantly reduces the size of the data sent, improving performance on low bandwidth/high latency connections
Examples:
Display all documents in a large folder(100/1000s of documents).
initial login, Search results, etc

7. Web Parts Goals
Provide a replacement for existing ProjectWise Web Explorer Lite
Web Explorer Lite(WEL) will not be delivered with ProjectWise “Athens”
Support either SharePoint 2007 or stand-alone IIS environments
Provide a platform for customization

8. Web Parts Capabilities
Check out/in
Document/Folder creation/deletion
Multi-document operations
Export/Send to Folder
Component Display/Navigation
Short-cuts to documents/folders(URLs)
Design Compare
Spatial Navigation

11. PW “Web View Server”
The "ProjectWise Web View Server" will extend any ProjectWise deployment by providing individuals with web browser access to view ProjectWise managed content. This will make it easy for any number of connected users to access and view work in a read-only mode using Internet Explorer. And as the access is likely to be infrequent, and will always be to consume rather than collaborate on ProjectWise managed content, there will be no requirement for a user to possess a ProjectWise Passport.

12. PW “Web View Server”
Leverages the same PW Web Parts in a read- only mode
Able to support both read-only and read/write sites on same physical server
Requires a server Right to Run license
Requires PW Publishing Server for viewing of DGN/DWG data

14. Spatial Integration - Goals
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
April 14, 2017
Spatial Integration - Goals
Provide ability for users to associate spatial locations to documents/folders/projects
Provide ability to visualize those locations on key maps
Provide search mechanism to find documents/folders/projects based on their location.
© 2005 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

15. Spatial Integration - Overview
Integrating subset of existing PW Geospatial Extension to core PW
Automatically delivered in PW Admin and Explorer
Advanced Geospatial features will be available as an add-on product
Only two change to feature sets integrated into PW IS:
Vector background maps can be created without PW Publishing Server
Allow user to select background map used for search

16. ProjectWise Explorer Usability and User Requests
Quick Search Bar
Photo Preview
Back/Forward Folder buttons in PW Explorer
File Sizes displayed in KB in Content List
Launch PW Network Config from tools menu
Multi-folder Drag-n-Drop
New Progress Bar

17. ProjectWise Administrator Usability and User Requests
Datasource Statistics
Select Users by Group in PW Admin
User Login/out Audit Trail
Log-out command in PW Admin
Environment Format fields (date; date,day; date,sec)
Date and Date,day only show date info
Date,sec also includes time
Increased upper file size limit
was 2^32 bytes (~4 GB)
now 2^64 bytes (too big for me to think about)

18. Overall Integration Improvements
Auto-login(SSO) for Integrated Applications
Launch from desktop Icon without login dialog
Local XML file used to track reference file changes(attach/detach) during checkout

19. AutoCAD Integration Improvements
AutoCAD 2008/2009 Integration and new features:
Datalinks
DGN reference
DWF underlays
Sheet Set Manager Integration
Session File Manager
Installer support for AutoCAD Vertical apps

20. MicroStation Integration Improvements
Managed Workspaces
Conditionals(If, then, else) support
UI improvements
Project Macros(relative pathing from PW project root)
MicroStation Athens support
In-place Reference Activation
Dynamic View
etc

21. ProjectWise IS Athens Compatibility
Applications:
MicroStation 8.11, 8.9.x, V8.5.x, V7.1.x
PowerDraft 8.11, 8.9.4, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x
ProjectWise Navigator 8.9.5
AutoCAD 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000
Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000
Project 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000
Visio 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000
Server Operating Sys:
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2003 Server(32 and 64- bit)
.NET 3.5
Databases:
Oracle 9i
Oracle 10g
Oracle 11g
SQL Server 2000
SQL Server 2005
Client Operating Sys:
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit)

22. Upgrade Path Must upgrade both clients and servers
Previous clients will not work with “Athens” Server
Previous servers will not work with “Athens” clients
Side-by-side PW Explorer and Admin installations supported with:
ProjectWise V8 XM Edition
ProjectWise V Edition
ProjectWise V8.1
Requires use of versionswitch.vbs

23. Performance Improvements
Scan Refs
Login
Setting file and document security
Search
Synchronize users with Active Directory
Integrated MicroStation actions (save, open, model create, model delete, close, change view)
Reference file activities (attach, re-browse, detach)
GeoPAK section creations

24. GeoPAK Performance Improvements
Operation of cutting 32 plan and profile sheets PW MS
GEOPAK
32 files took 4 hr 9 min PW
GEOPAK
32 files took 61 minutes

25. Futures Transmittal\Submittal workflow support Workflow
Application Integration
……..

26. Questions?