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The list of Sessions I have is quite long and very difficult to search through manually. To make it worse we have multiple outside entities making similarly named sessions that are very hard to tell apart when scattered through a huge list. A very simple keyword search would be such a massive QOL improvement to the Sessions list.
I agree. I just sent the same recommendation in to Bluebeam's email support. They directed the comment to their product team and suggested to follow up here to their product suggestions page as well.
My firm uses the Studio Sessions for every project and my studio log is very long. As many do, we have an internal number associated with each project. It would be super helpful to just type in a key word or our numeric id to find a studio session.
It would be nice if you could also easily remove multiple sessions from the list that you no longer are working on at one time.
It would also be great if we could anchor favorite sessions at the top of our list - this can be done with other software like MS Teams. I wish you could also put sessions in your own order, not session ID or alphanumeric order.
I totally agree to have a Search capability in BB sessions!
Looping in @Harry Potter for visibility
Appreciate all the feedback! - Session organization is something we definitely are aware of, so I keep tabs on threads like this to inform our future development! A question if you're willing to answer - I see many of you looking for a search bar to sort through your Session list - would a similar search within a Session help as well? Do you often find yourself with lots of documents within a Session?
Hello! Yes, I think both searches would be valuable additions. We have a habit now of making sure to prefix all file names we add to a session with a 'date' or something similar so it sorts in a somewhat reasonable manner. This helps us get around not having a search. We also tend to limit how many files we add to a session so it doesnt get cumbersome without a search.
Edit: Someone in the office suggested within a session to have collapsable sections. So we could have a header for 'Drawings' and a header for 'reference files', etc. essentially what we do by using certain prefixes, allows us to organize the session before needing to search or name files a certain way
"… would a similar search within a Session help as well?" YES! For my team, we routinely have hundreds or more documents loaded into a single studio session. Often, we need to search for a piece of text across every document. Example - say we have a studio session for an electrical wiring design and we need to change a certain cable type. We may know where most of those changes need to occur, but we need to be certain, so we need to search through every document in the studio session document list. I know of two methods to achieve this, both of which are cumbersome and time-consuming.
I can make a binder of all those documents just to perform searches with, but this becomes difficult if I am not the owner of the session or I don't already have all of those same documents, same versions, same markups saved locally.
I can also click to open ALL of the session documents first and then use the "Search - All Open Documents" function, but I can only do this in small batches (the magic number seems to be about 24, btw). I learned the hard way NOT to open a ton of session files at once if the "reopen files from last session on startup" preference is checked (always is for me), else an endless loop of crashing/freezing > force closing > reopening Bluebeam which tries to open all of the files that just caused it to crash again > repeat. A game changer would be having a "Search - This Studio Session" function that propagates a search through all of the active session's documents, both opened and unopened, and then populates a result field that navigates to the search result instance that is clicked. PLEASE consider pushing this to the development team.
