The RAM Structural System V8i

SELECTseries 3TM

Integration with ProjectWise®

Release 14.03
August 2010

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................1
2 Integration Basics .......................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Prerequisites for Using Integration ................................................................................................................. 3
2.2 Integration Commands .................................................................................................................................... 3
2.3 Affected RAM Structural System functionality.............................................................................................. 8

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1 Introduction

Integration with ProjectWise is a RAM Structural System feature that allows working with documents
stored in the ProjectWise V8i data management system from within RAM Structural System V8i Release
13.0.

For the sake of brevity, RAM Structural System integration with ProjectWise will be referred to as
Integration throughout the rest of this manual.

This manual is only intended to serve as a guideline for the Integration functionality. It is assumed that the
reader is already familiar with the set of ProjectWise Explorer applications and the RAM Structural System.

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2 Integration Basics

This section covers the prerequisites for using the Integration functionality, the new Integration commands
available in the RAM Structural System and the RAM Structural System functionality that is affected by
Integration.

2.1 Prerequisites for Using Integration

To use the Integration functionality, both the ProjectWise Explorer V8i and the RAM Structural System
must be installed. The order in which the ProjectWise Explorer V8i and the RAM Structural System V8i
are installed is not important.

2.2 Integration Commands

When ProjectWise has been installed, four specific Integration commands are available in RAM Manager.
• Add…
• Open…
• Update Server Copy…
• Properties…

These commands are accessible through the File – ProjectWise menu and the ProjectWise toolbar.

2.2.1 Add File to ProjectWise

Toolbar icon

Menu command Add…

When enabled? A RAM Structural System model has been opened on the local
computer using the File – Open or File – New command.

Purpose Add the current RAM Structural System model to a ProjectWise

repository.
Description

When invoked for the first time, the ProjectWise Log in dialog is displayed, allowing the user to log into
the ProjectWise datasource (see the ProjectWise Explorer V8i help files for more details).

Log in by supplying the required information and clicking the Log in button

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Figure 2-1

After clicking the Log in button, the ProjectWise Save Document As dialog is displayed, allowing the
user to enter ProjectWise document information such as Folder, Document Name, Description, File
Name, etc. (see ProjectWise Explorer V8i help files for more details). All Document section fields in the
dialog are automatically filled with default values based on the local file name.

Figure 2-2

Entering all required information and clicking the Save button will result in the creation of a new empty
document in the ProjectWise datasource. This document is updated with the RAM Structural System
model contents.

If the ProjectWise datasource settings require the user to enter comments for each document, the
ProjectWise Update Server Copy dialog is displayed, allowing the user to enter comment. If comments
are not required, the dialog is not displayed.

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Figure 2-3

A Progress bar is displayed during the data transfer indicating the file content transfer status.

The newly created ProjectWise document is then checked out from the ProjectWise datasource. The
RAM Structural System recognizes that the current model is linked to ProjectWise and allows the File –
ProjectWise – Update Server Copy and the File - ProjectWise - Properties commands to be invoked.

2.2.2 Open File stored in ProjectWise

Toolbar icon

Menu command Open…

When enabled? Always (when ProjectWise Explorer V8i is installed).

Purpose Open a RAM Structural System file stored in aProjectWise repository.

Description

When invoked for the first time, the ProjectWise Log in dialog is displayed, allowing the user to log into a
ProjectWise datasource (see Add File to ProjectWise for details). After logging in to the datasource, the
ProjectWise Open Document dialog is displayed, allowing the user to browse/search the datasource
contents and select the document to open (see ProjectWise Explorer V8i help files for more details).

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Figure 2-4

Once a document has been selected and the Open button has been clicked, the ProjectWise document is
checked out from the ProjectWise datasource, copied to local disk and opened by the RAM Structural
System.

The RAM Structural System recognizes that the current model was opened from aProjectWise repository
and allows the File – ProjectWise – Update Server Copy and the File – ProjectWise – Properties
commands to be invoked.

2.2.3 Update ProjectWise Server Copy

Toolbar icon

Menu command Update Server Copy…

When enabled? RAM model has been opened from a ProjectWise repository by using File –
ProjectWise – Open command (or added to a ProjectWise repository using
the File – ProjectWise – Add command).

Purpose Update the ProjectWise server copy of the file with the latest changes that have
been made to the local copy of the file.

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Description

When this command is invoked, the model that is currently open in the RAM Structural System is
checked for changes. If the model has been edited since the last save, a message is displayed asking if
these changes should be saved before updating the file server copy.

Figure 2-5

Depending on the ProjectWise datasource settings, the ProjectWise Update Server Copy dialog is
displayed when the Yes button is selected (see Add File to ProjectWise for more details).

A Progress bar is displayed during the data transfer indicating file content transfer status.

2.2.4 ProjectWise Properties

Toolbar icon

Menu Properties…
command

When RAM model has been opened from ProjectWise repository by using File –
enabled? ProjectWise – Open command (or added to a ProjectWise repository using the
File – ProjectWise – Add command).

Purpose Review and edit ProjectWise document properties of the currently opened file.

Description

When invoked, the ProjectWise Document Properties dialog is opened, allowing the user to review and
edit the ProjectWise document properties and metadata (see ProjectWise Explorer V8i help files for
more details).

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Figure 2-6

2.3 Affected RAM Structural System functionality

This section will discuss additional RAM Structural System functionality that is affected by Integration.
The most important affected items are:
• Closing a model opened from ProjectWise repository, and
• Opening a model from within the ProjectWise Explorer application.

2.3.1 Closing a model opened from ProjectWise

When closing a model in the RAM Structural System that was opened from a ProjectWise repository, the
user is given three options for file management: check in, update server copy or free file server copy. This
occurs in any of the following cases:
• Close Model command is explicitly called;
• New model is being opened (either from local disk or from ProjectWise);
• Save As command is invoked;
• RAM Manager is closed.

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When one of the above actions occur, the ProjectWise Check in dialog is displayed, from which the above
mentioned file management choices are available (see ProjectWise Explorer V8i help files for more details).

Figure 2-7

2.3.2 Opening a model from within the ProjectWise Explorer application

RAM Structural System models (.rss) can be opened directly from ProjectWise Explorer by explicitly
calling the Open command or by double-clicking on the document icon in the document list.

Figure 2-8

When this action is performed, the RAM Manager is invoked (in case RAM Manager is not already running,
otherwise the same instance of the application is activated) and the model is opened. The RAM Structural
System determines that the model was opened from ProjectWise and provides the same functionality as if
the model was opened using the
File – ProjectWise – Open or File – ProjectWise – Add commands from the RAM Manager.

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Index
ProjectWise Document Properties dialog ...................................... 7
ProjectWise Log in dialog ............................................................... 3
I ProjectWise Open Document dialog .............................................. 5
ProjectWise Save Document As dialog ........................................... 3
Integration commands ................................................................... 3 ProjectWise Update Server Copy dialog ......................................... 3
Integration prerequisites ................................................................ 3

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ProjectWise Check In dialog ........................................................... 9

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