Newforma

Info Exchange Folder

2012-01-12T17:24:48Z

I want to be able to create an Info Exchange folder programmatically for each project as the project gets created either by means of the N4.exe or using an Excel template. We want to always have a specified project folder shared/published/synchronized to Info Exchange.

Attachments To Show Folder Name

2011-12-21T20:05:44Z

most of our external/internal users get overwhelmed when they see an info exchange file transfer notification and see all the listed attached files. (Transferred Files). Our internal users end up sending a zip which gets sent out as a zip within a zip just to avoid that gigantic list and just have one thing listed in the transferred files section.

is there anyway to change this so that the transferred files list show the folder name instead?

PDF Stamps

2011-12-27T15:51:28Z

It would be nice to be able to use stamps created in pdf format with the same auto fill functions that the AutoCAD files use.

Automatically CC Project Manager

2011-12-22T13:05:51Z

Our users would like an option to set such that the listed Project Manager gets automatically CC’ed on all RFIs/Submittals. In theory this would help the PM stay on top of what’s happening with the project. It would need to be on/off selectable. I don’t know if they were thinking per project or per the PM contact record.

architects field report app for iPad with photos

2011-12-21T06:04:47Z

How about an app for the idea that allows me to enter a field report on a job. It would also allow me to attach photos from the iPad or attached iPhone into the report. It would have fields that cover all the usual stuff like weather conditions, trades or subs on the job as a check list, people spoken with, issues discussed, number of people on the job, overall progress, etc. You could open the app, and select the job from a drop down list. It would also allow you to copy internal or external team members on the report. Once finished the app could either drop the field report onto the office newforma server via a web portal or since it is not a report that you would need to edit later it could just drop the report down to a formatted email that gets emailed into the newforma server and logged into the job. At the same time it would launch info exchange to send out a copy of that field report to who ever on the team that was copied such as the job Superintendant, owners rep, etc.

Unit selection within Newforma Viewer

2011-11-04T13:05:04Z

We will be better off if we could specify another unit than Inches for the scale of a metric file. Most of our Government projects are expressed in Metric Units.
Each time we want to create a markup sessions of files (DWF most of the time) we have to use our calculator to make the transition between inches and centimeters and actually it doesnt work at all when we tranlate the info within the Results box…
Please allow us to specify a unit of our choice (I understand that inches is your default; it should be transparent from the end-user side!)

Thansk for listening.

BIM - Exchange Project Information between Revit and Newforma

2011-10-14T13:56:42Z

I would love to see a bi-directional tie between Revit Project Information fields and Newforma Project Information fields or at a minimum a button to export Newforma Project Information to Excel so I can import the data. Currently there is only a button to view summary.
Thank you.

Administrative Control Over Project Home for Users

2011-10-11T11:11:04Z

We’ve set up a nicely organized new project home for Eighth Edition and would very much like to push that out to our users. But instead of being able to do that administratively, each user has to individually go into Newforma and revert to the default project home. Some of them will do that, but a lot of them won’t.

Document Control

2011-09-28T09:01:01Z

Our former CIO had told us that Newforma was working to add some document control features to the project center. Is this true? We are looking for a file checking-in checking-out piece to Newforma as well as an edit history report. Is this something that being looked at?

Project Specific Activities

2011-09-28T09:14:43Z

We want the ability to create activities that are project specific. We are creating GIS apps for individual projects and it would be a big win for us to be able to put this on the project front page of Newforma. It would likely lead to a greater awareness and usage of Newforma internally