Fifth Edition Upgrade & Training Considerations
With Fifth Edition now officially released, we wanted to provide you with some information to help you prepare for the…
Setup and training in the construction administration functions of Newforma Project Center
A packaged program of CA discussion and instruction to ensure maximum value and adoption in the shortest amount of time…
CAN Do award, Action Items activity center for lean construction, part one: Boulder Associates
Boulder Associates Architects has won a Creative Adoption of Newforma “CAN Do” award for the firm’s use of the Newforma…
CAN Do award, Action Items activity center for lean construction, part two: BNIM
Like Boulder Associates Architects, the other firm winning a CAN Do award for its innovative use of the Action Items…
Model-based Design Requires More Than BIM
In a recent article appearing in The Voice, Newforma’s CEO Ian Howell discusses how model-based design requires more than BIM.
Video: “There Are 4 P’s in Practice”
In a video from KA Connect 2010, Newforma’s Bob Batcheler shares some thoughts on the relationship between project information and…
Case study: tp bennett uses Newforma software to improve design, responsiveness and collaboration
Architecture and design practice tp bennett had a list of requirements for a project information management solution. When IT managers…
A new look, a new purpose
We’ve refocused the Newformant newsletter to relay news, tips and tricks of interest to users of Newforma software for AEC…
Can Newforma be “trained” to automatically create a sequential submittal number based on the spec
Absolutely. You must be a Newforma Global Administrator to do this. Go into Project Center Administration, select the Projects Tab.…
In Seventh Edition we can now specify the name of the Newforma Items to File Folder in Outlook
To set this value you must be a Newforma Project Administrator. To do this you would go into the Newforma…
Did you know you can add a folder table to your project setup template?
When you create a new project in Newforma you can add a default project subfolder structure that will be created…
Solomon Cordwell Buenz wins CAN Do Award by pursuing new business
Like lots of architecture firms, Chicago- and San Francisco-based
Case study: Steffian Bradley Architects frees up time to focus on design
When Steffian Bradley Architects Associate Bevan Badenhorst shared his Newforma Project Center experiences with peers in the Newforma UK User…
Case study: HOK adopts PIM software to manage email, but quickly accomplishes much more
In 2010, HOK Director of Emerging Technologies Terry Nichols spoke to the Newforma UK User Group, an organization that Terry…
AECCafe: Newforma Project Center Undergoes Re-Architecture
AECCafé Managing Editor Susan Smith digs deeply into Newforma Project Center Seventh Edition in her AEC Weekly Review. “The reduction…
Cadalyst: Newforma Project Center Seventh Edition Beefs Up E-mail Support, Server Power and More
In the May 6, 2010, edition of Cadalyst, Nancy Spurling Johnson reviews the ways the Newforma solution for AEC project…
Document Management Challenges and Trends
Is it our bias, or does this article on document management get hijacked by a discussion of project information management?
BIMBoy blog: Newforma Seventh Edition re-engineered to support any e-mail program
For five years, Jeff Yoders covered IT, CAD, and BIM for Building Design+Construction magazine. Now he’s blogging full time about…
Reflecting on Newforma’s beginnings 6 years ago
Thursday, May 6, 2010
What’s New in Newforma Project Center - Seventh Edition
Seventh Edition offers more efficient, robust indexing of a customers’ entire company network, and expands email management capabilities beyond Microsoft…
How do I add Project Team members to my Outlook Contacts?
In the Project Team Activity Center, select the team members from the list that you want to add to your…
How do I add Meeting requests to the Project Timeline Calendar?
If you receive a meeting request in Outlook,select the meeting request and on the Newforma toolbar in Outlook select File…
How do Internal Team Members enter New Submittals that have been posted to Info Exchange?
In 6th edition, if an external team member uploaded submittals to Info Exchange, then you can easily enter them into…
How do External Team Members Upload Submittals to Info Exchange?
In 6th edition,if an external team member has been given access to Info Exchange, then they can upload shop drawings…
Setting Who will Receive Newforma Administration Notifications
There are 2 settings in the Administrative Console defining who receives Newforma Administration Notifications. These Notification include: If your NPCS…
Adding Secondary Locations to your Projects
To add the secondary Locations to your projects you will open each project, edit it’s settings and add the secondary…
Update Your Logo on Info Exchange
To Change this you would want to be in the Newforma Admin Console. Select the servers tab, and then highlight…
Submittal Settings Changes
To change these settings it is easiest to edit one project, make sure the changes are the way you want…
Transforming data into knowledge: PIM and knowledge management
How can you capture and share the knowledge gained in the course of executing a project?
Getting to the bottom of your inbox: managing project email, part 2
Will the increased email volumes of integrated project delivery overwhelm your inbox?
Capturing decisions as they’re being made: facilitating e-discovery
As integrated project delivery raises the importance of joint decision-making, how will firms document decisions?
Hammering out the details: PIM for construction
As integrated project delivery increases the volume of construction-related project information, how will firms cope?
Getting the lay of the land: civil engineering and PIM
How does project information management support the civil engineer’s role in integrated project delivery?
Every picture tells a story: managing digital images
How can you streamline image management in the course of executing projects and marketing your services?
Herding the cats: project monitoring
How can you monitor project activities against a timeline to ensure project delivery?
Lean and green: streamlining administration of the LEED certification process
What’s the best way to manage the increased documentation required for LEED certification?
The new world of BIM: supporting digital workflows for model-based design
How can you better manage the discussions and decisions related to your various building models?
Trust, but verify: logging and tracking in a paperless world
What can you do to foster trust among your project team members?
Who dropped the ball? Accountability through visibility
What can you do to encourage and support better accountability?
For knowledge mining, reuse or recall – the value of full-text search
Is your firm recreating work because past work is too hard to find?
Email management: an integral part of project process and project record
Does your project email management support a culture of integrated practice?
Newforma Interview: Eppstein Uhen Architects Vice President Bret Tushaus
EUA project managers say they’d leave if they could not continue using Newforma software! Bret tells why in this short…
Newforma Interview: Why do you renew, and what would happen if you did not? (video)
Newforma Director of Customer Satisfaction Dan Conery asks four Newforma customers why they renew their subscriptions to Newforma Project Center…
Happy 2009 holidays from the folks at Newforma
Give your company the gift of Newforma Project Center and your employees will dance like children!
How much is peace of mind worth to you? (video)
Colleen Arria Designer/Manager at ADD Inc tells how Newforma Project Center (NPC) helps her find an email from 6 to…
General Contractor started sending submittals electronically without being asked (video)
Lyle Lemon the CAD Manager at Bruner/Cott shared a story where the General Contractor on one of their projects started…
Would you like to take care of changes quickly? (video)
Colleen Arria at ADD inc shared a story about how she was able to quickly and easily coordinate a change…
Environmental Systems Design wins CAN Do award
Chicago’s Environmental Systems Design has won our third Creative Adoption of Newforma “CAN Do” award. We appreciate ESD’s can-do attitude…
Can you afford to look bad in front of your client?
While reviewing Newforma Project Center (NPC), a Senior Principal told me of a time when he had several senior project…
How important is customer satisfaction to you?
A principal at one of our customers loves the fact that he can answer questions from one of his clients…
Are you willing to lose $50,000?
We had someone exclaim in the middle of a presentation that they had just saved the company $50,000 dollars because…
Newforma Project Center can give you more time to spend with your family
When visiting with a prospect, the principals were surprised to learn that several of their Project Manager’s had to come…
Why do others seem to know more than me?
One of our sales folks was visiting an engineering firm in Seattle providing the complete demonstration of Newforma Project Center,…
Newforma is now on YouTube!
I have taken to the road in an effort to help prospective customers understand the value seen by our existing…
Newforma Project Center puts the fun back into work
One user at M Moser pointed out that he came in on the weekend to do some work and opened…
What if I file an Email to the wrong Project? How do I file the Email to the correct Project?
We are all human and make mistakes sometimes or at least I do,especially with so many distractions these days. So…
How Can I Get a Report with My Open Items for all of My Projects?
If you are looking for a report that has items that are open to you for all your projects, then…
How to Quickly Save Microsoft Office Files to My Projects
When creating Microsoft office files, you can quickly save them to a folder on the project server for all your…
How to find Duplicate Files and Folders
Newforma will find duplicate files and folders on your project server that may be taking up unnecessary space. In order…
Bottle Bank Arcade: everyone wins
Pitch in for a good time.
The World’s Deepest Bin: don’t just throw it away. Throw it awaaaayyy….
When an activity is fun, are people more inclined to do it? Well, duh.
Piano Stairs: ascending scales
Could something as simple as fun be the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better? Take a look:
How Newforma Project Center saves time and reduces risk by providing a quick answer
One of our Account Managers (AM) told me a story from a recent customer visit. This customer told him that…
Newforma Project Center saves customer from a 3x increase in cost for seats in a large coliseum
A Newforma customer who was involved in a large Coliseum project used Newforma Project Center (NPC) search to avoid a…
How to Add the Project Timeline Calendar to my Outlook 2007 Calendar
For Outlook 2007 users, you can add the Project Timeline Calendar to your Outlook calendar and subscribe to updates. In…
How to create Multiple Project Reports
You can create project reports for multiple projects from My Project Center. In the Task, select create multi-project report and…
How to Add or Remove Recipients from an Info Exchange Transfer
If you want to add or remove someone from an Info Exchange Transfer, it can be done easily in the…
How to Reassign Multiple Action Items
You can reassign multiple action items at once simply by using the filters in the Action Item log to find…
How do I set Reminders for my Info Exchange Transfers and Transmittals?
Create a transmittal by going into Info Exchange activity or Transmittals activity Center. After you select Create the Options dialog…
What are the differences between 5e & 6e Project Settings?
If you have updated from Fifth Edition to Sixth Edition you may have noticed that your Project Settings Excel Template…
How Can I Export my Project Data out of Deltek Vision to help Create my Project Import list xls
1. You will need to create a Project List report, from Reporting on the navigation tree at the left. 2.…
Sixth Edition Take 5 video tutorials
Newforma Take 5 video tutorials demonstrate real-time solutions to everyday questions. Each tutorial takes about five minutes to introduce you…
Newforma Sixth Edition Update
Newforma is pleased to release an Update build of Newforma Project Center Sixth Edition (6.1.1.3142). This build has been released…
Not getting the results with the carrot, get out the stick!
Newforma is pleased to present OWP/P with our second Creative Adoption of Newforma “CAN Do” award. We appreciate OWP/P’s “CAN…
How do I change the Licensing for my users, Express, Professional, Construction Administration?
As a Newforma Global Project Administrator, You have the ability to toggle the correct access to the activities in Newforma. …
London: bangers and mash, tappers and listeners, and the curse of knowledge
Newforma Director of Customer Satisfaction Dan Conery tells how one dish can constantly surprise you, and reveals how assumptions sabotage…
Project Timeline calendar subscriptions fail to update
Newforma would like to pro-actively make its customers aware of an issue that has been encountered with Project Timeline functionality. …
Project Move Update
Newforma Project Administrators and IT folks please take notice: Newforma has recently identified some additional information regarding the “Project Move”…
How do I set the order of the files that are printed or combined into a single .PDF?
When printing files or combining files into a single .PDF, you can set the order for publishing by dragging and…
How do I enter a meeting/appointment from Outlook to the Newforma Project Timeline Calendar?
In Outlook, You can file meetings/appointments as a new Timeline event that will appear on the Project Timeline Calendar. When…
How do I remove files off Info Exchange before the expiration date?
Maybe you posted the wrong files or maybe the files have been revised and you want to remove the previous…
How do I add my Submittal Responses so they appear in the action menu?
In the Project Setup, on set 6 of 8, at the bottom of the page you can map your submittal…
How can I get rid of the generic Headers and Footers printing out on my Newforma Forms?
To Edit these settings, you should do into Internet Explorer and change the Header and Footer options in Page Setup…
How do I go about Requesting a New Feature in Newforma?
Send Us a Suggestion...........
Go to the Help Pull Down and select “Send a Suggestion”
Project Naming – Special Characters
When creating a new project the Project Name is a required field. When creating the list of your projects, the…
What do all of the Icons next to things Represent
Do you know what all those Icons stand for?
Basic Automated File Items Troubleshooting
Currently, one of the more common questions coming into the Newforma Support team revolves around Project Email; more specifically Automated…
How to Search a set of Search Results in 6th Edition
Did you know that you can search a set of search results in Newforma Project Center 6th Edition? In the…
How to Filter the Project Folders by file type
Do you know that you can filter the Project Files by the file type? In the Project Files activity center,…
How to File an Email to an Existing Action Item
Did you know that you can file an email to an existing action item? If you receive an email that…
How to use Wildcards to Search your Data
Did you know that you can use wildcards to search your data? Putting an asterisk behind a word replaces 0…
Did you know that you could change Project Settings across all or selected projects at one time?
To complete this you would edit these specific settings on one project, export this project to a Template
How to customize your own Form Templates
What is a Form Template? Where are the files and how can I customize them? A Form Template is the…
How to print the notes and your Markups for a Markup Session
Go into the Markup Sessions Activity Center. Filter the log to view the Sessions you would like the report to…
How to Setup a Custom Logo for your Form Templates
To point to your custom logo for your InfoPath forms please edit the logo style call in your standard form…
SWBR Architects shows their CAN Do attitude with The Biggest Loser contest
Newforma is pleased to present SWBR Architects with our inaugural Creative Adoption of Newforma “CAN Do” award. We appreciate SWBR’s…
