[Troy DeGroot]

Welcome to the community @jtoddowen

Thanks for sharing such a great, detailed tip. I’ll have to dig deeper into this one!

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I love a good temporary override shortcut. Thanks for sharing @Roye

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I only use single-page documents in a Set (or Binder as I prefer to call it). I teach to extract pages from multi-page pdf’s and then create the Binder. If they are multi-page, I don’t know how BB would tag the pages and organize them as Binders are intended.

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You are correct, you’re unable to edit other users markups in a Studio Session. I know it’s been on the wish list for years, but I also understand the importance of the integrity of markups. When the punch process is complete, your checker can download the files. At that point, they can edit them outside the Studio environment. Hope this helps. And welcome to the community @tshupe

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@isaac-harned is definitely your guy for this one!

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Welcome to the Community @jacklee9823icloud-com

I don’t deal with the iPad much at all, so this seems like an unfortunate glitch beween the two operating systems. Did you have any luck with @Vince suggestion to flatten the document before opening it on the iPad?

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Welcome to the community @corbin

If you run the Batch Hyperlink it should replace the old ones when it creates all the new links. That’s one thing to try. I would leave all the pages in a single PDF, update all the page labels, and then run the Batch Hyperlink. Be sure to update the appearance of the hyperlinks in the Options before you place them. Once you have it all set up correctly you can extract pages to individual PDFs. I would always keep the original combined file with all the links to fall back on if needed.

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I’m not sure I have the expertise, but I love it when Bluebeam is used for fun stuff like this. I think it sharpens our skills and allows the software to flex once in a while. Once you get it to work, we’ll have to work together on a blog post. If you’d like, you can share the PDF here and give more details about the issue.

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Great wisdom here @Doug McLean

Thank you!

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anyone can change the status. You wouldn’t be able to edit the markup, but you change the status to “Complete” “On Hold” or whatever you want to name the different status updates.

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Specifications are a different animal for sure. A digital dashboard might be a good option. If you still want to use the “Binder” method, you could maybe use the Batch Header/Footer tool to add a page number, then build the set using that as a page tag. You could also create a Place for the cover page of those specific sections, then in the drawings link to that Place. This way the hyperlink would go directly to the section.

There are a few options to play with, we can keep brainstorming, but keep us posted on the direction you go. I’d love to learn from you as well!

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Love custom statuses! Depending on how they want to edit the markups, this is great.

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I think they have seen the request, but if that bucket of requests starts to overflow, they will historically put resources on it. The key to what you said is the owner would choose the option. That is a key point to make in the suggestion. If anyone wants to jump on and support this idea, here is the link. https://community.bluebeam.com/bluebeam-community/discussion/829

Sorry for the ugly picture of me, not sure why Bluebeams website would use that as an image. Embarrassing actually! 🤣

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Unlock Studio Markups

I have heard the request over and over to unlock the markups in Studio Session so not just the author can edit them.

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Thanks for your tips @ashleyw and welcome to the community!

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I agree the sequence tool is not as powerful as most people would like because of its limitations. I think @DavidCutler is on the right track with custom tools. I like to build a delta symbol (triangle) and overlay a text markup RFI#. Then group them and add it to your toolset. Your user should know what the next RFI number is in the sequence, once they place it, they can double-click and update the #. This way you only need one tool and they should all be organized properly in the markup list. I also like to hyperlink the actual RFI document to the markup for quick access when navigating the plans.

I’ve also built a delta with ANS# or something like that so when an an answer comes back I can place the symbol, match the RFI # and hyperlink to the response document. This way the question and answer are all stored where they need to be, directly on the plan. You could even go as far as custom statuses for answered/unanaswered.