6/27/2023

For clients using named user licensing, Autodesk has started enforcing that one named user cannot be logged in on 3 machines at the same time doing work.  When that happens, you will see the following warning, which will only allow you to have this user account accessing software on one machine at a time.

What Autodesk has told us in these cases is: The legitimate way of using Clarity with named-user licenses, is to have each task server have a separate email (user license) for each task server, just as if you had robotic interns sitting at each one doing

GTP Stratus is a fabrication tool used to track the fabrication process through a project's life. Currently, you have to manually publish Revit models up to GTP Stratus to get the latest content. Could it be possible to automate this? 

Introduction

These prerequisites are required for all types of Clarity host.

This guide does not cover the full configuration and operation of the software – merely the host system requirements and prerequisites.

Hardware/Operating System Requirements

Clarity requires a server-class Windows Server operating system to be the central web server. 

A dedicated server is highly recommended.  Whether you will be using Revit Server in your environment or not, the prerequisites are the same for Clarity so the System requirements below should be referenced.

I highly recommend that you go with the Performance requirements, but no less than the Value for either

Our host server is using a lot of memory. What are some best practices to manage the memory on the host server?

Thanks,

Bruce

Hi Guys,

Our team use the Launchable parameter of Task target for quite a few tasks. We are seeing more and more end users accidentally running a task on 'all" instead of just the intended target due to the default option being to select all target files. Resulting in someone having to go in and cancel large number of tasks. (see attached image for ref:) Would it be possible to have an option for the default behaviour to select zero targets instead of all targets?

We have a project with several models and I would like to generate a report of all of the schedules that exist in each model.  I don't need all of the 'internalxx' variations of things like revision schedules and keynote legends.  Is there a way to do this?

I was wondering if there may be scope for an upgrade to the Dynamo For Families Task. We like to use this task to run a dynamo on our entire content library. Works great for a limited number of files. Just chugs through the list and gets it done. The problem is the inherent Revit limitation of not completely releasing in-use RAM until the revit session shuts down. Once we get upwards of 100-200 families being updated the revit session gradually loses available RAM, and ends up with the workstation sitting at 99% RAM in use, everything grinds to a

It seems like - at least on B360 projects - that folder order isn't being used, but date uploaded or date of creation.  My teams have have several projects where random models will appear in the incorrect order when trying to filter, leading to confusion.  This is worse on projects where the actual Design Collab workflows may be used so multiple exact-name matches may appear in the index of files. 

The Clarity Team is pleased to announce the availability of Clarity 2024.

What's In This Release?

• Support for Revit 2020 thru Revit 2024 (with limited support for Revit 2019, via an older Task Server).
• New integration mechanisms with BIM 360 / ACC and General Web Triggers to make tasks fire.
• More metadata integration mechanisms, including pushing Revit metadata to BIM360 during Publish
• Significant enhancements to the Unified Sync task
• Automatic management of selected projects in Desktop Connector 16.x

For more Release Notes, click here.

How Do I Get It?

The designated contact for your firm will receive email(s) in the

I'm comparing the Backup Project and the BIM360/ACC Download tasks. They both seem to do the same thing but with slightly different means.

The Backup Project task is more of a true backup for BIM360/ACC (appears to pull additional information like Issues, checklists, RFIs, linked files etc). This information (which could be quite a lot) is then zipped and put in a designated location (on the host or a server location). This appears to work with live Revit models (and apparently it will bundle in linked files if it can find them). 

The BIM360/ACC Download task seems to be more

We have tasks setup with the target set to  *  so they allow access to all files in the project.

The launchable parameter of Target is enabled so the user can select which file to run at launch time.

The 2 run buttons as per attached image behave differently. The top one gives user option to set the launchable target parameter, while the lower one in setup screen, just launches the task on all files.

This then launches in our case 100(sometimes thousands) of tasks which i need to go and cancel. If other tasks are running at the same

Clarity sends emails about inactive projects that still have scheduled tasks running.  It would be great if Clarity had a "quick action" that could set all tasks for a project to run "Only On Change".  Or at least provide an individual action on the Setup Tasks page that would let us toggle "Only On Change" on or off without having to go in and edit each task.  It is currently much too time consuming to edit every single task to make this change.

I am wondering if a feature upgrade (or existing feature I may be unaware of?) could be made to allow for files to be emailed to a user upon completion of the task.  

e.g. export DWG or export PDF, I would like to be able to email the file directly to the user that requested the file. In a perfect world based on file size there would be options for emailing directly or emailing a link to download the file.

Alternately, a way that when a task is initiated by the user, for the username to be available to post

I am trying to find the task which delays a Task Server. I want to find it by the task number, but sometimes it is not shown in the visible portion of the Clarity Task Log window. Is it possible add the task number to the window title? 

Task name would be informative too.

Thank you.

A little thing for pleasure. Please sort the Hubs list:

Thank you.

I think a very useful feature for  The Task Options is to allow an additional level of control in the Access Required field of a Task setup: If this could be a dropdown that included Administrator/Project Coordinator/Standard User etc, that way we can better control which users can run each task. 

This change is on a per Revit version basis.

For Clarity 2025, Refer to this blog post:  https://imaginit.helprace.com/i659-clarity-2025-task-tray-configuration-for-error-overrides 

There is a way to say “Continue Loading” for this kind of Schema Conflict dialog.

We are currently programmed to always hit “Do not load” for that specific issue, because there’s a risk of data loss.  When we do that it kills the task.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Please be aware, this configuration change is at your own risk, and you understand that it will change the model during the task, and you are ok with that.  For most tasks, we don't save the changes

This is done at your own risk and will apply to all models on this task server that have the configuration files modified.

WARNING Modifying the ClarityTaskTray.exe.config and setting it to “true” will “Always hit the OK button, if there is one”, we feel like this is at least a little bit dangerous, so we don’t have it on by default.  There will still be dialogs this won't work on, since not all dialogs have an OK response.

Make a copy of the original config file before modifying it so you have a backup. If you edit the config file incorrectly

Some of our PDF files generated from PDF Tasks have text issues to where the text displays as "garbled" text - showing random characters of symbols, letters, and numbers. We use the Arial Font, which all of our Task Servers have installed.

My workaround is to the issue is to first delete the existing PDF files in the Project's main Artifact folder first so that there is no PDF files that Clarity has to attempt to overwrite, which does seem to help issue, but we have overnight/scheduled PDF Tasks that we run as Check Sets that are  constantly having to

We would like for there to be a way to specify additional options in the task sequence target.

e.g. Task 1 & 2 use the main task sequence file target - but task 3 uses it's individual set target.

We run seqence tasks that take a single file, update the file and the duplicate the file based on criteria. I would then like to continue the task sequence - but change the target to the newly created files.

alternatively an option to sequence a task sequence? Sequence 1 includes sequence 2 and 3 for example? This would also solve the