It would be nice if Project Center would give you the ability to copy in a directory structure with files at project creation time.

I know you can have it create the directory structure but we also have a need for files to be copied.

For example we have revit files that need to be copied into the correct folder.  So if at project creation time it copied that directory from the “template location” to the active project directory that included the necessary files, that would automate the process and make our lives easier!

What do you think?

we have a ‘project creation’ project with a ‘setup docs’ document set to quickly access the files that need to be copied in.

not automated, but it helps.

I wrote a little project creation program which writes a batch file to xcopy all the files from our “standard project” into the project’s main directory. I was very pleased that this co-exists with Newforma quite well.  Here’s what it does for one project:

K: [ put you on the project drive ]
cd K:\999901 [ put you in the project’s main folder ]
xcopy K:\stdprj\*.* /E/Y/C/Q/K/O [ copy all the folders & files in the standard project ]

pretty simple, but it works; just edit the project number and execute the batch file.

Actually, if you are doing project creation using the Vision integration, that allows a batch process to be run.

We have things integrated so that when a project is created in Vision, it creates the project in Newforma, which then copies a folder structure with security group privileges to a location.  The location is determined by a function in Vision, that processes a network location based on the project number and the organization group within the firm (defines which server it resides on)