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Please add an option to open bookmark links in separate window. This will allow people reviewing drawings, reports, etc to open up a reference link without losing their place in the pdf they are working on.

I have been using bluebeam for a long time and it is great, but does have one big shortcoming regarding the way counts are setup and performed. I would ideally like to see a project based count legend that can easily be created and updated/copied for specific project needs.

I am a plumbing and HVAC estimator and the HVAC/plumbing equipment and fixture tags often change by project. I currently find it time consuming and inefficient to perform and label counts using current tool chest items and edit them as you go along.

My suggestion is to make project based legend where you can have an equipment tag, description, or label for each schedule item you need to count then easily select corresponding colors, sizes and shapes for each item you are counting. Then you would just select these items from project specific tool chest for counts much like you do now. For me setting that all up ahead of time and just being able to select and count will save me a lot of time. Formatting could be something like below. More than happy to jump on a call and speak with a developer to get into more details on this.

Our workflow in our office often has us copying comments from one PDF into another PDF in a session. However, we lose all authorship information of the comments with the person copying over the comments inheriting the comments. Is there any way to maintain the author of the comments when copying those into a session?

This has come up a lot over the years. I believe the restriction isn't a design or programming issue, but more of a legal one. If I'm a subcontractor invited into a session by a GC, with this setting, they could potentially change my comments. This would be possible to anyone invited into a session that is owned by someone else.

Would require some trust on all parties. For internal use, I think the idea is fantastic.

I'd like this simply because sometimes the mark up has a typo or references the wrong thing.

Yes please!!! My entire firm would LOVE to have this ability. There are times were we use Studio Sessions internally, and it would be AMAZING to have the ability to edit each others markups. As Troy said, making this an option that the Session owner can enable or disable would be ideal. There are already permissions setup for Session members, so perhaps adding the ability to edit ALL markups could be added to these permissions.

Or at least allow the Admin the ability…..

I have heard the request over and over to unlock the markups in Studio Session so not just the author can edit them. I understand the purpose of locking them to safeguard the integrity of the original intent of the author. If you could make this an option in the Session Settings, it would be nice if the Session Owner had the ability to choose lock or unlock. Sometimes we need both and the Admin should be able to pick.

This feature would be extremely helpful for us as well. We are currently running into issues with needing to edit each others mark-ups on occasion and downloading and re-uploading is not a realistic option since everyone would have to halt edits in order for someone to fix any mark-ups.

It would be much easier to work collaboratively on a project if we had the option to at least have the session administrator able to edit other people's mark-ups.

From the history of this thread this is a much needed upgrade to the system.

Hello (again). It's been several months since the last post on this topic, and I'm coming back to again bump this request. Can we please have an update on this? Our company has over 1,000 licenses for Revu and a large number of our teams are requesting the ability to have a session permission option to edit each others markups to aid in collaboration, design sketching, cost estimating / take-offs, and other production based tasks. We're getting closer to considering alternative platforms since the need to collaborate on markups is a critical need for us. Thank you.

EDIT: I just want to point out that this is the most up-voted thread in the entire feedback forum.