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Bluebeam Session Limitations

Anthony Flynn

I'm looking to understand certain limitations and request that Bluebeam allows for users to opt out of the restrictions currently put on sessions to offer a more collaborative environment within sesesions. I have (3) issues currently with Bluebeam that seem unnecessarily restrictive.

Ability to Replace Pages within a Session
- Currently, content editing tools such as Replace Pages are disabled in Sessions. The ability to swap updated drawing backgrounds while retaining markups would greatly improve efficiency in long-term collaborative reviews.
Ability to Edit Comments Placed by Other Users
- At present, only the original author can edit their markups in a Session. For some workflows, accountability is less important than flexibility, and allowing trusted collaborators to edit or refine text/comments would eliminate unnecessary delays.
- For example, we use sessions to keep certain codes/standards updated. When someone has replaced text and then that text needs to be updated again, it is burdensome to have to tap that same employee again, and we would prefer the ability for any employee to make the correct updates to documents.
Ability to Keep Pre-Session Markups Editable
- When a file with existing markups is uploaded to a Session, those markups become locked. A feature that allows pre-existing markups to remain editable (or an option to “convert to Session markups”) would better support ongoing projects.
- Often, we start a markup outside of session but then want to bring it into a session.

Thank you!

Anthony

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michael miller

Emphatic thumbs-ups to all three of these suggestions… 👍️👍️👍️

#1 and #2 especially seem like they are vestiges of early development decisions on what the 'right' way is to use a Session, and ever since, those self-imposed blinders have defined the feature. (Bluebeam seems to suffer from quite a few of these blinders…) All three of these functionalities maybe should remain the default settings (or not), but with options to allow them to be changed by session admin users (or otherwise controlled).

Anna Oostendorp

These would be so helpful for us! Especially the ability to flag a user as a trusted/lead user of some sort which would allow them to edit markups left by other users.

CTRACEY

The VERY issues we are facing and combing through these boards to find a solution. 100% on point with the comments made. Teams are unnecessarily handcuffed by these limitations.

The creator of the session should have full administration control over their documents. For integrity purposes track every action-Fine!, BUT give the session owner the ability to control their documents.

One page out of 200 needs to be replaced—that's it. pulling it off session, replacing that one page and re-uploading in session now has every mark-up locked, why can't I the session owner override that so my team can do what they need to?

Hoping BB monitors and responds in kind with a "feature add" that resolves this.

Thanks for your comment, and those that have agreed.

kkuntz

Couldn't agree more. Please add these abilities to the studio session! Having one stop where all of the revised plan sheets are stored, one file, for everyone to see, is something needed.

Adam Schreder

I couldn't agree more on this. We have a permitting/licensing software that we built a Bluebeam integration for, and users are constantly asking us why they cannot perform page manipulation actions (adding, rotating, or resizing pages) within their Bluebeam sessions. I can see that if we switch our integration to Projects, most of these issues would be fixed, but then we'd lose the ability to have multiple users editing a document at the same time. Bluebeam is essentially forcing us to choose between real-time collaboration and basic document editing, and neither option fully serves our users.

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