Last week we reported that a percentage of customers encountered an issue during installation which was causing their Clarity web application to not work after install. Root Cause: During an upgrade install, the Clarity Host Installer issued a command to stop all of the Microsoft IIS services—to ensure that no files are in-use when we attempt to remove/replace/upgrade them. For some customers, this command either:

In these cases, the DLLs for the web application did not get properly replaced, and it caused issues after the installation. NOTE: If you successfully installed the software, and your web application worked—then there is

We had a user report that she was receiving "changed Revit build" notifications.  She did not want to receive those but the only way we could find to stop them was to stop all emails on her Clarity account.  Clarity needs to have a more granular and/or documented approach to email notifications so we know how to control the notifications.

We keep seeing that our Clarity Administrator User keeps becoming disabled.  When this happens Clarity no longer runs any tasks.

We were going to upgrade to the newest version to see if that resolved the issue, but saw the email about the issue with 2022.1 and did not.  We are still a bit behind either way.  Below is our Server Version.

The Task Servers are on Build 2022.0.10.0   

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

While watching the Task Server it shows success and complete but is not publishing the model. It gives a BIM 360 Forge Error. 

on the Task Server I opened Revit and navigated to the model and was able to publish manually so the authorization is working for the signed in clarity user. Not sure how to reauthorize the BIM 360 Forge access. Is this an issue with the token?

Thanks,

For architects that do Space Programming / Space Planning projects, we have introduced a new module for Clarity to help.

• Develop your Space Program inside of Clarity, or in Excel (then import it).
• Provide various tools to analyze the program in Clarity (pivot table, stacking diagram, etc).
• Build adjacency rules
• Inside Revit:
  • Define parameter mappings to work with your Space Programming Families
  • Automate the creation of elements to represents program requirements
  • Track the design against the program
  • Check adjacencies
  • Convert families to rooms (with walls)
  • Check and place FF&E to meet requirements
  • Synchronize data back to Clarity for reporting
• Report

Hello!

The development team is happy to offer the newest version of IMAGINiT Clarity: 2022.1.

What’s In 2022.1?

• New integration to Egnyte Cloud Storage (Post Task Action and Sync Task)
• New integration to Google Drive (Sync Task)
• Improved configuration of BIM360 Upload Post Task Action (lock it to THIS project)
• Improved ProjectWise to Sharepoint integration
• Metrics Enhancements:
• If you are opted into “Community Metric Sharing”, see what (anonymous) other firms are using for Firm Standards
• Added Metrics for AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
• Clarity Client for AutoCAD

What Else?

For Architects doing Space Programming work, there is a whole new Clarity

Hello, I would like to know what are the rules for measuring '# of Views' an '# of Views not on Sheets'. The number showed by Clarity is much bigger than what I can find in Revit after summing up all views, schedules and legends together. Any ideas? Thanks

Hello,

I would like to know what are the rules for measuring '# of Views' an '# of Views not on Sheets'. The number showed by Clarity is much bigger than what I can find in Revit after summing up all views, schedules and legends together. Any ideas?

Thanks

When I run this tasks and it times out it still processes the post action task. It would be better to not process the post action tasks as it could be operating on an incomplete file or the old version. 

Is there a way to export nwc where the source filename/path reflects the actual central model, and not the "-detached" version?

The problem is that when trying to use Navisworks Switchback, the link to the Revit model is broken because the source file path contains the -detached suffix when the nwc is exported, so Navis and Revit cannot complete the Switchback connection.

Is there a setting I'm missing?  Thanks!

In 'Setup Tasks' window, my suggestion is to maintain focus on filtered list of tasks after selecting edit or run to support running many non-scheduled tasks easily. Alternatives are to allow a preselection of tasks to run (radio box > run all selected) or create the ability for administrators to string together already established tasks to run concurrently on group execution. We may want to run the same task on multiple projects periodically (not on a schedule).

Working with IT to set up routine restarts and SCCM update windows. We realized it's hard to visualize when a task server will/will not accept tasks. I think it might be useful to see this in the task timeline.

How can this be suppressed when opening a revit project and this pops up? Please see attached.

Thanks

We have a REVIEW SET (list of sheets and views together) for PDF output.

Typically we use the following file name template: [Sheet Number] - [Sheet Name].pdf

Unfortunately it doesn't work well for views. The output file name for views is "--- - [Sheet Name].pdf". It is the same name for all the views. That results duplicated files which get deleted. It is expected, so I added another parameters to the template: [Sheet Number] - [Sheet Name][View Name].pdf

The problem with duplicated file names is gone, but the resulting file names include the keywords [Sheet Name] and [View Name], surprisingly the

Please add the Worksets parameter for Task Templates. In most time they have two values ALL or NONE. For some of tasks there is no need to open Worksets, for example for the task Revit Database Export. For such tasks I use the NONE value, which significantly reduces processing time.

When I assign such Task Template to a project I need to set the Worsets to NONE for the assigned projects. Too many clicks. It is a big disadvantage in comparison with copying tasks from one project to another.

There are similar tasks, for example PDF output can be in black or colour, in separate files or in a single file. Also it is a good way to create a backup copy of a Task Template.

It would be helpful if I can copy a Task Template (similar to a Task) and change just a couple of parameters.

The PRM task running against BIM360 files has limitations:

• No link remapping
• No cleanup

I believe it can be done. Download BIM360 files to Artefacts folder and do all the things.

Please elaborate the task for full functionality.

Just to draw your attention to them, there are two new short videos on the IMAGINiT resource center about how to leverage Clarity data into PowerBI:

For the basics of connecting, particularly using the new OData features:

https://resources.imaginit.com/videos-webcasts/connect-to-clarity-data-from-powerbi-and-excel

If you're interested in getting floorplan (room/space/area) data in as part of your PowerBI dashboard, check out this one:

https://resources.imaginit.com/videos-webcasts/showing-floorplans-in-powerbi-data

I have a project where the Project dashboard is reporting the file size to be 133.66MB, but Model Metrics is showing a number "653029376." 

The project only has one Revit file, so I don't think the second number is some sort of aggregate. Why does the Dashboard and Model Metrics show different numbers for file size?

Wouldn't it be great to be able to modify tasks in groups?

We have multiple tasks with the exact same settings and names across at least 150 projects. It would be very nice to be able to modify tasks by type, as opposed to just instance (to use Revit lingo). 

Maybe there could be a "Tags" field for tasks? Then we could manage the primary task settings (the ones on top) by type, name, and/or tag.

This would be a big time saver! To my knowledge, if I have to make a change to a task shared by many projects,