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Working with Additional Project Files
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Written by Ashok P
Updated over a week ago

All additional Project files are listed at the bottom of the Project Explorer interface.

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Categories

Along the left side, there is a default list of categories for organizing/filtering your project files. You can modify this list as you fit via the Manage button.

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This will open a form where you can add/edit/delete categories.

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You can also create up to one subcategory for each category for further organization of files.

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Once a file has been added, you can change the category at any time via the Change Category button.

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New Button

The New button allows you to create "linked" Visio and/or AutoCAD files.

For more information, click here for Visio and here for AutoCAD.

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Add Button

The Add button is how you can add any file you desire to the list of project files. These could be PDF files of floor plans, Excel spreadsheets, etc.

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After browsing to your file(s), you will have the option of organizing them into categories via the following form.

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Once done, you will be notified that the files will be copied to the project's folder.

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You should NEVER manually move files in/out of project folders. Always use the in-built functions within SI.

Open Button

This will open the selected file in whatever software the files natively open with, e.g. Visio in Visio, PDFs in Adobe Reader, etc.

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Clone Button

The clone button allows you to copy any of the files associated with a project.

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Rename Button

Use this function to rename any files.

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You should NEVER manually modify project files in Windows Explorer. Always use the in-built functions within SI.

Add Accepted Documents Button

This function works in conjunction with the Customer Portal.

Click here for details.

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Add Mobile Install Documents Button

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This function will allow you to add Site Images and Documents from Mobile Install to the selected Project's folder.

You will automatically be prompted to download Mobile Install Documents when a Project is checked out from the SI Server or you can manually add them via this button.

Enable the relevant Project Setting in the Control Panel to turn off the prompts.

You will be able to choose which files you wish to download.

Send To Button

This function allows you to zip any project files, zip and send via Outlook, or send a file to Mobile Install.

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