Just wanted to share a little something that I recently ran into and worked through BB Support to get resolved.

If you are an Org Admin for your BB licensing and also utilize SSO, going to the base address for BB Cloud of app.bluebeam.com will actually re-direct you to the Org Admin page/address app.bluebeam.com/org-admin/home. I tried…

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Single file, same page even. Script won’t come with the copied button.

I created a small script that allows a Form Button to change from a blank button to a filled circle or an open circle (each click cycles through the options). Works great, except that when I copy the button, the JavaScript action doesn’t come with.

Does anyone know of a way to apply a script action to multiple buttons, or how to copy a button…

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Usually, those notes (Keynotes) aren’t related back to the actual spec book, those are usually related to a Keynote sheet within the drawing set (usually in the beginning of the set) that calls out what each Keynote actually is.

So the 09 97 00.PL11 Keynote references a certain note and instead of writing the note, they put this number…

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Groups kinda suck in my opinion, I’ve done permissions per user instead of using Groups. Unless something has changed recently, Groups are NOT created per Session or Project, they are for your Studio account (or something like that). So this Admin group you create with certain people in it, that Admin group will be the same group you can…

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Not sure how many of you have seen my post on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7172968094909218816/), but figured I would give the quick recap from the response from Bluebeam.

The weekend of March 1-3, they migrated their US Studio services to be cloud hosted. During their rigorous testing, they didn’t have the…

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Yep, thanks Troy. It helped make sure I had the proper context for the options.

Support helped get the formatting correct since I needed everything to be in one line.

Looks like I finally have the proper context/syntax for the bat file to install Revu along with properties to change with the install. I had all the content being separate lines and everything needs to be 1 line with everything separated with spaces.

Here’ the final script that we’re using to install Revu:

rem Install Revu 21…

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I confirmed that the example that says “type in text” isn’t actually true, the text is static. Regardless, I’m pretty sure BB can’t do this kind of stuff and the person was likely using Adobe to make the text arc around a circle and wrap around the corner of a rectangle.

I don’t think the wrapping has anything do to with the length. As I change the length, the text just adjusts for the line length instead of wrapping the corner. Same with the text around a circle, the text is actually curved and not segmented like what I’ve tried.

Has anyone created or seen a tool that has text wrapped around a shape?

I can create the linetype with text without issues, but it won’t wrap the text around the shape (curved text), or “wrap” around corners.

What I created is in red, the black is something that a user said they have used in the past at their previous company (trying to get a…

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Has anyone utilized a script to install Revu by using the MSI file installer and also changing properties (disable auto-update, change net config location, etc.)?

Since we don’t have a install wizard to setup the install anymore, I’m trying to setup a script to push these changes with the install. The BB Admin and Deployment guides appear to…

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Projects are a way for you to get the files into a “cloud” storage and also enable file locking so that only 1 person can edit a file at any given time. It’s a check out/check in type system. That is at a very basic level the difference between files on a shared server vs files in a Project.

Slip Sheeting in my mind is the easiest way to…

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You are welcome!

One thing I want to clarify is a silent command ( /s )in the script. This if for when Revu opens to make this change, it will then automatically close by itself. Otherwise you need a person to manually close Revu.

“C:\Program Files\Bluebeam Software\Bluebeam Revu\21\Revu\Revu.exe” /s /bpxdir:”U:\Temp\Example Folder”

Just wanted to provide an update to the ability to change the profile location (directory). This can be done via a script:

/bpxdir:[Path] – Lets you specify a folder path if you want to designate a new profile directory. This is the path to a network shared location where Profiles are located and shared across an organization.

Here is an example…

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When I have an update to a profile, which has been rare, I use a script when the user logs into Windows to copy the profile from the server to their local computer and overwrite the previous file.

If they have made changes to the screen layout, they need to redo it. Which in my mind is the cost of doing business because what I’m doing in the…

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Makes perfect sense, especially someone in your position creating a lot of profiles.

Unfortunately won’t work for what I’m trying to accomplish since I don’t want people to have access to other profiles.

If you are the only one accessing the profile in Dropbox (assume a sync folder with Dropbox that lives on your C drive), don’t see any issues with that.

If it’s a shared Profile and it’s sync’d to multiple computers, then I could see there being issues.

Didn’t find anything in the Admin Portal, just the Net Config, which doesn’t hold anything for Profiles. Which by the way, why is there 2 places for Net Config…in Revu and Admin Portal?!?!

I did shoot a message to BB support to see if there is a reg key that holds it. Net Config has reg keys, so I’m hoping there’s one for the Profile location.

Tried to delete the OTB profiles from the default location, they come back as soon as you open Revu again, even with a custom location specified.

Yep, that’s the default, but I want to change the path within BB to use a different location. But I want to do that path change for the users so they don’t have to do it manually….because more than half of them won’t change it.

I basically don’t want users to have the option to use any other profile that our custom profile…they only have 1…

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Hey all…I’m running through and getting my deployment package ready for pushing out Revu 21 to our users. I’m doing something different this time around and want to have our custom profile sit in a custom folder on the users C drive (profile copied down from the server). Does anyone know where the Profile Path is held so that I can change…

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Thanks Troy for having me as the guest presenter! Hope everyone that was able to attend learned something new from the presentation.