Does anyone have a "best case" workflow for markups in a Session and in Projects? We want to use both - Sessions for online collaboration and Projects for document management and versioning. Setting up the Project and pushing files into a Session is easy - no issues. The problem comes when there are a raftload of markups on a PDF in the session, and the new PDF has been published from Revit. We WANT to be update the Projects copy with the markups (not hard), slip sheet the file with the updated PDF raw file from our server, get the markups brought forward, and push the PDF back into the Session for continued use. The PROBLEMS:
- Having to DELETE or UPDATE PROJECT FILE manually for each separate file. Three clicks each time - Select the file and click Delete, YES I want to delete, and YES/NO I want to save edits.
- Markups not editable after pushing back in to Sessions. EVEN MY OWN markups, since slip sheeting relies on the username AND the machine ID, but breaks the machine ID so it thinks my laptop is a different machine each time.
- The non-availability of IMPORT or EXPORT MARKUPS while in a session. Just…WHY?
I suppose markups could be compared to the new slip-sheeted copy in Projects before pushing back in to a Session, and delete the markups that were completed correctly within the Project copy before pushing back in to Sessions, but that requires multiple steps to delete the Session copy (and save back to the Project copy to check it back in), but that creates a second workflow in a second location, which is bad and will cause errors when users don't realize they're collaborating by adding markups to a "record" copy.
I suppose we could change our workflow to multipage PDFs instead of individual sheets, but that seems a bit harder to navigate on the Projects side. Bookmarks yeah, but most of the time in the files our consultants send the bookmarks are not functional. Page Labels, yeah but our consultants also fail at setting page labels in their files and Sessions doesn't allow you to redefine page labels.
Does anyone have a workflow they've established that just…WORKS? Sessions is SO CLOSE to being a FANTASTIC tool, but the hurdles of round-tripping markups to a new version have made us avoid using it except for consultant files (less frequent replacements than our daily/weekly drawing updates from Revit.
