Need the ability to export a studio project and retain all of the versions of each file

ahilley · 2025-03-03T14:19:55+00:00

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I really enjoy studio project, but I recently realized that when closing-out a project there is no function built into bluebeam to allow me to export every revision of the files I have hosted in my project. I would have to go in and export each revision manually, which is labor intensive.

This is problematic for me, because due to my company's retention policies I must retain every markup for a given project on our file server. Without this functionality, I cannot recommend we use studio project for future projects. This is despite previously being a very big proponent of doing so.

My idea is that bluebeam should add this functionality. All of the revisions could be included in an export similar to how this feature currently works: https://support.bluebeam.com/online-help/revu2019/Content/RevuHelp/Menus/File/Save/Revisions--V.htm

Or just subfolders for each file with all of the versions appended with their version number. This needs to be added so that I can confidently continue to recommend bluebeam studio project to my company as our default. In every other way it has been an optimal solution that works better than what we did previously, but this is a show-stopper.

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Darbie

@ahilley

I think this is a great idea. My firm currently have it as a PC task, every week PC'S save out copies of all session files manually into project folders. Having this handled within Bluebeam or having BB manually archive versions on a set time table would also be helpful and give work time back to team members.

Luke Shiras

I'm curious about the reason for archiving regularly. Is the session used as a conformed set/document?

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