Report Desktop Connector version on Task server page in the task server details.

Over the past 2 months, we've encountered more customers having trouble with keeping their Revit task servers signed in to BIM360. This is due to a confluence of factors, including updates by Autodesk to Revit 2020.2 and Autodesk Desktop Connector.

The symptom was that instead of extending your signed-in Revit token, the desktop connector seemed to be wiping out the stored token after 1-3 days - meaning that you would need to sign in again.

Autodesk has been investigating this changed behavior, and it recommends that users upgrade to the newest Autodesk Desktop Connector (12.4).

IMAGINiT has also improved its

We need the ability to transfer "DWG/DXF Export Setup Settings"

Since Clarity may be opening models to create PDF exports sometimes that model reports a Coordination Review is required.

Report this back to the host to alert the model manager to go check out why and do the Coordination Review.

I ran my first Index Model Families task and was surprised that the family file size was not in the report.  If File Size was in the report, I could quickly pinpoint families that are too big.  Could the file size metric be added to the family indexing?

Thanks,

This is what appears on the Clarity Task Log Dialog.

Checking...10:26:41 AM Evaluating 51 tasks... Evaluating Task: Task: 140136: TaskSequence: New Plugin Options: Same mutex is needed, just reuse: {96188ffc-0348-49a2-94c6-8d854786f502}PDFREGISTRYCLARITYPDF An exception while idling was encountered: ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source Stack: at System.Linq.Enumerable.Select[TSource,TResult](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 selector) at Clarity.IProjectMonitor.ProjectFileAccessManager.GetProjectAccessorsAsString() at CohortRevitTaskServer.Controller.Process() Too many consecutive exceptions... pausing callbacks...

the issues is the lasted update 20.1.7.0  dropped an extra DLL in place for non-ProjectWise customers.

The fix is to search and delete Clarity.ProjectWiseFileAccessor.dll in your Task Server folders for each version.  example C:\Program Files\IMAGINiT Technologies\Clarity Task Server for Revit\2017   , 2018,  2019

We are interested in using dynamo to retrieve some clarity metrics.  It looks like there is a Clarity Dynamo package that includes some nodes to do this.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/IMAGINiTSoftware/Documentation/Clarity/2020/index.htm#t=Admin___Coordinators_Guide%2FModel_Metrics%2FDynamo_Integration.htm&rhsearch=dynamo&rhhlterm=dynamo&rhsyns=%20

Where can I download the Clarity Dynamo package?

It would be great to have support for downloading/uploading from Trimble Connect directly. It's been our main platform for sharing files for several months now and it does have API access. Considering this is a construction oriented file sharing platform with online IFC viewing capabilities, having the option to interface with it directly would be great. 

Trimble has Trimble Connect Sync which can sync folders but I find that it's not the greatest tool and having to use multiple tools creates more failure points in an automation system. 

Clarity Help is great, but would be even better if short, 3-5 minute videos can be provided within Help pages to demonstrate common Clarity task workflows.

We would like to have a report in Clarity that mimics our drawing index in Revit, including some shared parameters that we use to sort and organize the index.

I created a report of sheets in Clarity for a project that is in Revit 2020 on B360.  That report seems to work just fine.

I copy it to another project (Revit 2018) and I get an error in the report that data columns are missing.  I think all of the fields I am using are built-in Revit parameters, or shared parameters that we have used for years.  When I try

create a button to Change all scheduled projects tasks Only On Change with one click.

Maybe setup a option on the host server to show projects without any changes 90 days to quickly change all tasks to  Only On Change

Change Default for Scheduled task to weekly. Right now it defaults to Every 3 Weeks.

Automate the process to create a BIM 360 task to create and send packages in Design coordination.

Even if it is only the model with out sheets.

Hi,

I have a suggestion that would make a major quality of life improvement.

Clarity should include sheet parameters in file naming and/or in Artifact Sub-folder. 

By doing so parameters such as discipline of sheet set could be used to create a folder, phasing would be put in specified catalog - all from one task.

In summary by adding dynamic parameters from sheet to file path naming in Clarity we could achieve clearer documentation sorting with less tasks to manage and run.

We seem to be having trouble with Clarity accessing our B360 projects consistently.

We have the 0Auth Settings configured for B360 and have updated those credentials.

The Clarity Task Automation Service Configuration on our task servers is set to automatically login to B360 in Revit.

We are using the same admin login and password everywhere in Clarity.  That account has access to all of our B360 projects.

Do we also need to open each version or Revit and login to B360 in order to run tasks on B360 projects?

We are having an issue with tasks erroring out because the links models report as missing. The project has a mixture of links through desktop connector and live links to other 360 models. The 360 model links are the cause of the issue. Opening the file manually (on the desktop and task server) shows the link resolved. The automated load from clarity on a task is where it is missing. clearing the local cache from the PAC and user files is the only way we've found to resolve this. However, it keeps coming back.

on a Revit 2019 BIM 360 project the backup task is not including the Model Links in the Zip file.

The project is setup to for Live models and to include Shared and Consumed folders.

When viewing the Current Tasks, be able to delete Claimed tasks without waiting for the task to be running in a Revit session on the task processor.

Many times I was to kill a task from the Current Task page but get a dialog saying "The selected task cannot be deleted"