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

(10/28/21)

At present, the best combination that we are seeing for stability seems to be:

• Desktop Connector: 14.10.0.1456  / AdSSO: 12.3.3.1803

Other "Known Good Combinations" include:

• Desktop Connector: 14.11.0.1476  / AdSSO: 12.2.2.1802
• NO Desktop Connector (if you can live without it) / AdSSO:12.3.3.1803

You can see the versions you have installed in the Control Panel, Programs and Features.

As you know, the Desktop Connector releases come out every month, so it's difficult to keep track of exactly which combinations work best. If you don't see your version combination listed above, it may still be fine - but if you're encountering issues with

We're happy to announce a new product related to IMAGINiT Clarity - IMAGINiT Clarity Cloud.

Clarity Cloud is an early-stage product to demonstrate using Clarity entirely in the cloud, with no on premise hardware.

As of now, it works only with BIM360 projects, and all of the tasks are done in the cloud, either by IMAGINiT or by Autodesk Forge.

While the on-premise tool remains much more powerful and flexible, we're excited to see how Clarity Cloud can grow over time.

For more information, see:

https://imaginit.com/ClarityCloud

We also have an upcoming webinar on June 29, 2021:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1532528309673293325?source=a2u4u000000zvHU&utm_campaign=2106_Clarity_Cloud_Webcast&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

The following Windows update (see things to check) causes the ClarityWebAppPool and the ClarityWebServicesAppPool to fail to stay running.

Symptoms

• When accessing the web portal you get a 503 error Service Unavailable
• Web app pools above will not stay started.

Things to Check

• Were any Windows Updates installed?
  • Update for Microsoft Windows (KB4601555)
    • May 11, 2021-KB4601555 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 1809 and Windows Server, version 2019 (microsoft.com)
  • Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5003243)
    • KB5003243: Servicing stack update for Windows 10, version 1809: May 11, 2021 (microsoft.com)

Event Logs

System Event Warning WAS

Hi folks-

I wanted to alert you that the Clarity development team has wrapped up IMAGINiT Clarity 2022 and all customers active under maintenance should receive an email about it last Friday.

What’s Inside?

Clarity 2022 contains a number of new features that we’re excited about: 

• Support for Revit and Revit Server 2022 (and offering support for 5 versions – back through 2018, so no versions are lost in this release).
• First-class support for AutoCAD Tasks, including PDF, Navisworks and eTransmit
• A Task Dashboard for easily analyzing how Clarity is being used.
• BIM360 Enhancements for Data Extraction
• Deeper integration with

Thank you for your continued interest in Clarity! We're excited to bring you the Clarity 2022 version—and we're looking for your assistance in beta testing the product. Clarity 2022 will offer:

The Clarity 2022 Beta Testing period will run from approximately 4/16 thru 5/15. You can participate by:

We'll have a webcast to give you an overview of the beta features and tell you more on April 15th, register here.

Many of our customers have encountered challenges with maintaining the Autodesk Login Token, which keeps your Clarity Task Server signed in to Revit as a particular user.

We'd like to review some basic information about the problem and then talk about some recent improvements on our side:

The Basics

The token is shared between all Autodesk products on a particular machine. By itself, each token lasts for 14 days. So it should only be necessary to sign in once every 14 days.

However - with the advent of Autodesk Desktop Connector, this changed. With Desktop Connector installed - Desktop Connector

Please find the following Release Notes for Clarity:

2023.1

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2023.0

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2022.1

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2022.0

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2021.1:

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2021.0:

- Host Updates

- Task Updates

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

- Update Revit 2017 addin with signed dll - Fix issue where PDF files were being intermingled - Serialized values for ModelTag

- Fixing the restore of BIM360 projects - Fixing selection of OAuth tokens within BIM360 projects - Fixing help links in Clarity ODP - Eliminate monitoring service search through hidden unix folders.

Hello!

We expect to be launching the beta version of Clarity 2020.1 at the beginning of next week, and releasing the final version hopefully at Autodesk University.

The 2020.1 version has a wide variety of enhancements in the areas of:

- Integration with other cloud services

- New Tasks

- New scheduling mechanisms

There will be a webex on 10/18 to preview what is coming in the new release, and soliciting interested beta testers, whether:

• Installing Clarity on your own network
• Using our Clarity sandbox to test the features

Please contact:  spg (at) rand.com if you would like to be

We have an upcoming IMAGINiT Clarity User Group on Thursday that I hope you can attend.

We will be going over the different ways to leverage Clarity data with PowerBI and other similar solutions.

• Setup of connections
• What you can do with a link to the RandRevit database
• What you can do with a link to the Project database
• What you can do with a link to the ClarityIndex database

You can register here:

https://www.imaginit.com/Events/Registration/eventid/a2w0g000004dNsKAAU

One of the features we are occasionally asked for - that we do support within Clarity, and recently noticed it was missing from the documentation, is the ability to do calculations within a datasheet.

For example, you have the "Target Area" and the "Actual Area", but what if you wanted to show the percentage?

To do so, you can use the EVALUATE keyword.

EVALUATE takes a statement inside of curly braces { } - and runs it through a C# evaluation tool.

The EVALUATE step happens AFTER it has already "parsed" in the various parameter values. For example:

EVALUATE{[Room:Area]/[Room:TargetArea]*100}

Other

I'm trying to run a batch file as a post-action in a task in clarity. The batch file works perfectly when I run it separate from Clarity, but doesn't work when I run it as a post-action through Clarity. Why is this? I've also considered making it a separate task, but can't figure out how to only run a batch file this way.

- Family Upgrader revit versions. - View and Data update

- Ignore _backup files in backup project - A360 Download issues with HubIds - Logging for SignalR URI - View And Data update

- Catch extra dialog boxes that prevent tasks from running - Update Forge Task Activity names to public names