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jimmykingy1

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Hi there.  I've set up parameters for views so theyre either 'working'  or 'sheet/publication views'   which works fine and in line with other standard documentation (and our internal guidelines I've written)

The problem is that we have another office (who has another BIM coordinator i work alongside)  and on thier couple of projects so far then they use workingviews and 'not on sheets'  so they all dissapear.  I'm quite firm in my belief that this is the wrong way to do it for several reasons including applying view templates, organisation of dependents and generally that not all sheets are set up at the tiem the views are...

His excuse is that in a tall building with lots of floor plans and dependents then it gets too cluttered -  I think this is just plain wrong and will cause problems longer term if we work in 2 different ways 9besides the fact taht with lots of plans with 4x dependants on eeach theres even more reason for there all to be seen under 'sheets'..

has anyone else had a similar experience or list the pros vs cons of each way?!

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I often use browser sorts for whatever I need at the time.  This is user - not a project wide setting

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thanks,  I can understand that there are different scenarios for different functions but for teaching new staff and trying to get them all 'singing off the same hym sheet' as it were then ideally wwouldn't we like the browser organisation to have the same familiar structure? (similar to a project filing structure..)

The idea (in theory) being that peopel can move from project to project and quickly find the information they need.

any other thoughts?

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Teach them how the browser works!  The sort setup always shows at the top of the browser.  If they don't understand this simple setting, you have much bigger issues.  We have no issues with this in our office.

BTW, Your sort setup stays the same as your last local save - it is not controlled by the central.  Contrary to some erroneous posts, you do not need to make a new local everyday.  Simply reload lates after starting.

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