Add Project dialog box

Use this dialog box to create a new Project Center project by entering basic information. (This dialog box is part of the batch project creation process).

Project Name

Enter the name of the project.

Project Number

Enter the project’s ID number.

Primary Folder

Select the project’s primary folder. Click the icon to open the Choose a Folder dialog box to locate and add a folder to the project.

Important: The files accessed and used by the Project Center project must be located on your network file server so that the Project Center Server has access to them and can index and search them. If you enter a path to files that are stored on your local machine, the Project Center Server and other users may not have access to them. In this case, Project Center will not work, because the Project Center Server needs to have access to the files in order to perform those functions.

For advanced users: If your system administrator has your local machine mapped on the Project Center Server, you can select a folder containing files stored on your local machine and have full search functionality.

Important: Do not add folders (or subfolders) that have already been added to another Project Center project. Once you add a folder, that folder and all its subfolders are automatically indexed by the Project Center Server. Adding a folder that has already been added to another project will result in performance degradation of the search feature. Each project folder gets indexed once by the Project Center Server. However, .DWG files in each folder will get indexed as many times as the number of projects accessing it. Projects accessed over a WAN will also be indexed more slowly.

Secondary Folder

Select the project’s secondary folder. Click the icon to locate and add a folder to the project, as well as create a new folder for the project.

Server Name

Enter the name of the Project Center Server the project will be pinned to.

Template Project

Click the icon to locate and select the project template whose settings you want to use as the basis for the new project.

Status

Select the project’s status from the drop-down list.

 

To access this dialog box

Click Add from the Batch Project Creation dialog box.