New Ideas

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    All emails from Clarity should be controllable and controls should be documented

    Ken Etter · 1 · Last reply by Matt Mason

    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.

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    Navisworks conversion task

    Derek Becher · 0 · Posted

    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. 

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    Administrators select and run multiple tasks

    Sidney Griffin · 2 · Last reply by Sidney Griffin

    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).

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    Visualize the "When Tasks CANNOT Be Run" On a Task Server

    Dan Warren · 0 · Posted

    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.

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    PDF File Name Template - Empty Values

    Evgeny Kurbatov · 0 · Posted

    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

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    Task Template - Worksets

    Evgeny Kurbatov · 0 · Posted

    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.

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    Copy Task Template

    Evgeny Kurbatov · 0 · Posted

    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.

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    Publish Revit Model - full functionality for BIM360 files

    Evgeny Kurbatov · 0 · Posted

    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.

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    Planned

    Modify Tasks En Masse

    Holden Fleck · 2 · Last reply by Evgeny Kurbatov

    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,

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    On the all projects pages can you add additional columns "Project Creator" and "Task last run" ?

    Jason Trahan · 0 · Posted

    Would like to be able to follow up with the prj creator and look at the task last run time, on all projects.

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    Fabrication Parts Data

    Dylan Blake · 2 · Last reply by Matt Mason

    Fabrication Parts hold a lot of powerful data that would be nice to report on. This data is stored inside each part that can be accessed via the Revit api. 

    Other information could also be extracted based on the FabricationConfiguration in the Revit model which the Fabrication parts derive from.

    Being able to report this data would be huge because they are a 1:1 part (meaning exactly what they look and are in the real world) and would provide accurate content that could help forecast a job or even produce a bill of materials for the job.

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    Egnyte support

    John Dutz · 2 · Last reply by John Dutz

    We use Egnyte as our primary storage for project information. Not only do we want to upload output artifacts to Egnyte, we want to be able to download files from a Egnyte project folder to execute tasks. This is more of a benefit for CAD and Civil 3D users, as we already use BIM 360 for multi-discipline Revit projects, but it would be a significant benefit to have more support for Egnyte.

     

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    Delete worksets on Revit Publish

    Martin Coyne · 0 · Posted

    It would be great to include an option to delete specific worksets when publishing a Revit file via Clarity. At the moment there is only an option to retain or remove ALL worksets, but there is a often a single workset we need to delete as part of our publish process - for example "Temporary Structure" in an Architectural file.

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    Enable Revit Single PDF's to be sorted by sort parameters

    Julie Kidder · 0 · Posted

    Currently, only Clarity Print collation of single pdfs allows for use of the sort parameter.  However, only the Revit Print Collation allows for pdfs.  We would like a pdf that has hyperlinks, but is generated with the sheets in the proper order.

    Until that is fixed, the description for "Sheet Order Parameter" setting both in the help documents and in the task settings should clarify that the setting will be ignored if Revit print collation is used.

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    Add office to the available Keywords

    Dan Warren · 0 · Posted

    I think it might be helpful for those users with multi office organized servers to allow the use of the office as a keyword in the post task action.

    In our offices the file path looks like this: //servername/office/project name/

    If we could leverage the assigned office parameter set during the project startup it would dramatically simplify our project startup process.

    This would allow us to set post task action paths in the task templates as \\servername\[office]\[Project]\ and eliminate the need for template tasks that are specific to each office.

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    Backup Project and Worksets

    R Robert Bell · 1 · Last reply by R Robert Bell

    It appears the the Backup Project task opens models in order to process them. However, we need to be able to open those models with all worksets closed, for performance. 

    We have some site models that take more than 3-4 hours to open if all worksets are open, which is what Clarity is doing. The task often fails.

    Please allow us to configure the task to close all worksets in the models.

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    Add Priority to the Task Columns in the Completed Task List

    Dan Warren · 0 · Posted

    Just a thought. Could we add "Priority" for the tasks in the task column list?

    This would make it easier to troubleshoot prioritization with task setup.

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    We would like to have a task that allows us to download files from BIM360 Glue into a ProjectWise folder.

    travis wollet · 1 · Last reply by Matt Mason

    We have designers/engineers/contractors producing coordination models in BIM360 Glue. We would like to be able to automatically download the file from there and save it into ProjectWise, where more internal staff have access to review the model.

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    DB Export - Check box for models to export

    Lisa Sprague · 1 · Last reply by Matt Mason

    Would like to have an option on which models I want to run the DB Export on. When I create a template for a DB export it takes all the Revit models in the Project. I would like to be able to select which models I want.

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    Shift Task Timeline Hours

    Alex Wilson · 0 · Posted

    We run all our backups and metrics at night, starting after people stop work, however the task timeline is only midnight to midnight. It would be great to be able to set the hours from say 8pm to 7am, so i can just examine the automated tasks, of one night, without having to jump from the day before to the day after