[Dwane Lindsey]

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 pick when in a different session with the same people being in that group. If different Sessions have different Admins, you’ll need to create an Admin group for each session with a different Group Name.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 issues they are experiencing now. They have a plan and path to resolve the issues, it’s just not a quick
fix unfortunately. They are not expecting Studio to be back to normal uptime this week (March 11-15) and expect their to be daily issues/degraded services.

I’ve basically told our staff to pull files from Sessions (if they can) and work the “old school” way until Bluebeam has Studio back to normal.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 with Options

msiexec.exe /i “\\servername\serverfolders\MSIBluebeamRevu21.0.50×64\Bluebeam Revu x64 21.msi” BB_AUTO_UPDATE=0 BB_DISABLEANALYTICS=1 DISABLE_WELCOME=1 BB_NETCONFIG=\\servername\serverfolders\Bluebeam\Net?Config BB_REVUPREFERENCES=\\servername\serverfolders\Bluebeam\Preferences\FGMA_RevuPreferences21.xml /qn

One of the things I needed to do was to make sure any folders that have a “space” in the name were replaced with a ? mark. In our folders, that was making the Net Config folder in the script to read Net?Config, otherwise the script would fail.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 change out sheets for new versions. It definitely helps if you have Extreme (or Complete now for 22) so you can batch Slip Sheet. It allows for replacement of the sheet, copy markups and stamp the old sheet with a Superseded markup.

I’ve never really been a fan of Sets, especially since they never carried over to the “old” iPad app (I don’t think they carry over to the cloud app either). I would rather use the Batch Link feature to have all the documents linked to each other.

Here’s where the fun begins 🙂 If you use Projects, batch slip sheeting is a major pain as you need to check out every file that will be slip sheeted. To combat this, I’ve had people keep a set of the files on the network and do all the linking (relative paths are key) and slip sheeting there. Then, upload these new files into the Project.

I guess the question would be…what are you looking to accomplish or fix by using a Project? Sets are a glorified bookmarking system (in my mind) and can be done without using Projects. Slip sheeting can be done (and almost better to be done) outside of using Projects.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 of a script to accomplish this:

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

I put this script along with what I already have to make the profile active in a bat file that we use after Revu is installed. This way when users launch Revu for the first time, the profile location is changed and the profile is loaded for them.

I have the profile on the users C drive in a custom location. If users want to make changes to the interface, move tools, etc, they have that capability.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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”

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 profile is much more important in the larger picture.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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.

[Dwane Lindsey]

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 to choose from.