Manage every MicroStation® workspace without leaving your desk!

Global Workspace Manager  ™

 A component of MicroStation Acceleration Garage ™
 
 

Manage all those workspaces from one location.

Until now, managing MicroStation configuration variables has been a nightmare. CAD managers have had no easy way to ensure that MicroStation workspace configurations were properly set up and maintained. They either had to rely on each user to correctly set up and maintain his or her own workstation or walk around to each user's workstation and manually set up and maintain its configuration.

Even if CAD managers use a protected, central network workspace, they still don't know who's working on which project, when a project was last worked on or even which version of MicroStation is installed on which workstation. With this new add-on, all that is about to change.

With Global Workspace Manager, CAD managers are now able to not only analyze and control MicroStation workspaces, but they can also see who's working on which project and which version of MicroStation they're using. CAD managers can analyze, monitor and control a few workstations — or a few thousand workstations — all from a single location.

Benefits of using Global Workspace Manager

This new breed of enterprise software gives CAD managers the power to:

  • View all configuration variables or specific configuration variables by workstation, location, project or any combination of these.
  • View or bulk modify the configuration variables on one workstation, all workstations or any number of selected workstations.
  • Ensure that all workstations are using the most up-to-date resources such as cells, fonts, dgnlibs, and linestyles.
  • Easily find exactly why one workstation or workspace is behaving oddly or different from the others.
  • Monitor who is working on each specific project, verify that the correct project or company standard CAD resources are being used for each project and make needed changes to the workspaces without ever having to leave his desk.
  • Eliminate wasted time by bringing the monitoring and management of workspaces on all workstations into one location.
  • Copy an entire project along with all its resources (such as seed files, dgnlibs, linestyles, fonts, and color tables) to another network server or to an individual workstation.
  • Show which MicroStation versions are installed on each workstation.
  • See when projects were last worked on and who worked on each project.

Rapidly pinpiont why one workstation is behaving differently from the others.

Global Workspace Manager consists of two separate applications: a manager's console (for the CAD manager to use) and a client (which resides on each MicroStation workstation). The manager's console receives MicroStation workspace configuration data about each workstation that is running the client. The manager's console has the ability to view, sort, filter, group, analyze and modify all the workspace configuration variables on the workstations. These capabilities allow CAD managers to view all configuration variables or specific configuration variables by workstation, location, project or any combination of these. The manager's console has the ability to view or bulk modify the configuration variables on one workstation, all workstations or any number of selected workstations. CAD managers can also ensure that all workstations are using the most up-to-date resources such as cells, fonts, dgnlibs, and linestyles. The manager's console also provides powerful analysis tools to help the CAD manager pinpoint exactly why one workstation or workspace is behaving oddly or different from the others.

Each workstation is automatically monitored.

Global Workspace Manager client runs on each workstation that will be monitored by the manager's console. The client sits quietly in the background, until the user makes a change to a workspace component. For example, when a user selects a different user, project or interface, the client notifies the manager's console of the change.

The process of the client updating the manager's console when changes occur ensures that the Global Workspace Manager manager's console always has the most current workspace information from each workstation. This lets the CAD manager monitor who is working on each specific project, verify that the correct project or company standard CAD resources are being used for each project and make needed changes to the workspaces without ever having to leave his desk.
Using Global Workspace Manager, a CAD manager can set up and manage all the workspaces on all the computers associated with a given project. For example, a CAD manager can view which cell libraries are being used by each workstation. All workspace configuration variables can be monitored and modified from this interface. The CAD manager can monitor and control workstations anywhere in the world without leaving his desk.
 
Global Workspace Manager can monitor the workspace settings on every MicroStation workstation at your site or even in your whole company. Every change to a MicroStation workstation's User, Project or Interface setting is tracked in a central database. You will be able to see — and even change — every single MicroStation configuration variable, in every single workspace, on every single MicroStation workstation at your site or even your whole company, without leaving your desk!

MicroStation not required

Global Workspace Manager does not require that MicroStation be installed. It supports the following versions of MicroStation workspaces:

  • MicroStation V8i
  • MicroStation V8/XM
  • MicroStation V7

For more information or a free, online demonstration, click here or call 727-442-7774 extension 9451 in the U.S. or e-mail us.