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ProjectWiseWSGConnector

Accesses the Bentley ProjectWise service to upload, download, or delete files and folders or list the contents of a folder from a ProjectWise account.

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Typical Uses

  • Manage datasets on ProjectWise by uploading, downloading, and deleting documents and projects.
  • Transfer a file's contents (such as XML, point cloud, or raster) into or out of an attribute in FME.
  • Read downloaded ProjectWise data using the FeatureReader, or upload data written by the FeatureWriter to ProjectWise.
  • Retrieve document and project names, paths, IDs and other information from ProjectWise to use elsewhere in a workspace.

How does it work?

The ProjectWiseWSGConnector uses your ProjectWise account credentials (either via a previously defined FME web connection, or by setting up a new FME web connection right from the transformer) to access the ProjectWise service.

Depending on your choice of actions, it will upload files, folders, and attributes; download documents and projects; list information of objects; or delete objects from the service.

The transformer accesses ProjectWise through a Bentley Web Services Gateway (WSG). A WSG is a server-side application that opens a communication channel between an app, in this case FME and the ProjectWiseWSGConnector, and Bentley's project information management system, which in this case is ProjectWise.

A WSG is comprised of two main components. The first component is the WSG framework which uses a REST web services API to communicate with apps to authenticate, send data, and receive data. The second component is a set of providers that communicate directly with individual management systems. The provider of interest to the ProjectWiseWSGConnector is the ProjectWise provider, which allows access to ProjectWise data sources.

Usage Notes

  • This transformer cannot be used to directly move or copy files between different ProjectWise locations. However, multiple ProjectWiseWSGConnectors can be used to accomplish these tasks.
  • The FeatureReader can access ProjectWise directly (without using the ProjectWiseWSGConnector), however, a local copy of the dataset will not be created.
  • The minimum supported versions for the ProjectWiseWSGConnector are Bentley Web Services Gateway 2.00 with Server Version 2.00.

Configuration

Input Ports

This transformer accepts any feature.

Output Ports

The output of this transformer will vary depending on the ProjectWise Action performed.

  • After an Upload action, the Instance ID and Object ID of the uploaded object will be set to attributes on the output feature.
  • A Download action can save to a file, a folder, or an attribute.
  • A Delete action will output the input feature unchanged.
  • A List action will output a new feature for each document/project found in the object id specified. Each of these new features will have attributes listing various pieces of information about the object.

Features that cause the operation to fail are output through this port. An fme_rejection_code attribute, having the value ERROR_DURING_PROCESSING, will be added, along with a more descriptive fme_rejection_message attribute which contains more specific details as to the reason for the failure.

Note  If a feature comes in to the ProjectWiseWSGConnector already having a value for fme_rejection_code, this value will be removed.

Rejected Feature Handling: can be set to either terminate the translation or continue running when it encounters a rejected feature. This setting is available both as a default FME option and as a workspace parameter.

Parameters

ProjectWise Action

The type of operation to perform. Choices include:

  • Delete
  • Download
  • List
  • Upload

ProjectWise Account

Performing operations on ProjectWise through a Bentley Web Service Gateway requires the use of a basic authentication using a Web Connection. To create a ProjectWise connection, click the 'ProjectWise Account' drop-down box and select 'Add Web Connection...'.

The connection parameters are:

  • ProjectWise Base URL: The base URL for the Bentley Web Services Gateway deployment.
  • ProjectWise Web API Version: Web API version of the Bentley Web Services Gateway.
  • User: User name
  • Password: Password

The connection can then be managed via Tools -> FME Options... -> Web Connections.

The remaining parameters available depend on the value of the Request > ProjectWise Action parameter. Parameters for each ProjectWise Action are detailed below.

ProjectWise Path

Object

The document or project on ProjectWise to delete. If valid credentials have been provided as a web connection, you may browse to a location.

Flat set objects are not supported for delete.

ProjectWise Source

Object

The document/project to download. If valid credentials have been provided as a web connection, you may browse to a location.

Flat set objects will not be downloaded.

Destination

Download as

Select whether to store the downloaded data in a File, Folder or Attribute.

  • File: The downloaded document will be stored in the specified folder.
  • Folder: The downloaded project will be stored in the specified folder.
  • Attribute: The downloaded document will be stored in the specified attribute. Note that this will always assume system encoding. Use the AttributeEncoder if your contents need to be a specific encoding type.

Download to Folder

Specify the path to the folder that will store the downloaded document. Valid for Download as File or Folder.

Include Subfolders

Choose whether to download subprojects of the ProjectWise Source or not. Valid for Download as Folder only.

Download to Attribute

Specify the attribute that will store the contents of the downloaded document. Valid for Download as Attribute only.

Note  FME will attempt to convert the attribute's contents to a UTF-8 string. If this fails, the attribute's contents will be created as raw binary. To ensure that the original bytes are always preserved and never converted to UTF-8, use Download as File instead.

ProjectWise Path

Project

The project to list the contents of. If valid credentials have been provided as a web connection, you may browse to a location.

Output Attributes

Attributes to Add

The selected attributes will be added to the output feature.

_name

Name of an object on ProjectWise.

_instance_id

Instance ID of an object on ProjectWise.

_object_id

Object ID of an object on ProjectWise.

_class_type

Type of an object on ProjectWise.

_description

Description of an object on ProjectWise.

_create_time

Creation time of an object on ProjectWise.

_update_time

Last updated time of an object on ProjectWise.

_relative_path

Relative path to an object on ProjectWise.

_document_name

Document name of a document on ProjectWise. Only added for document type objects.

_document_size

Size of a document on ProjectWise. Only added for document type objects.

_document_last_modified

Last modified time of a document on ProjectWise. Only added for document type objects.

_document_mime_type

MIME type of a document on ProjectWise. Only added for document type objects.

_document_mime_type

List attribute holding the referenced document ids for this item on ProjectWise. Only added for logical set type objects.

_flat_set_list

List attribute holding ids for the documents contained in the flat set on ProjectWise. Only added for flat set type objects.

_properties

Instance metadata for this item on ProjectWise. The metadata will be in JSON format.

Source

Upload

The type of data to be uploaded.

  • File: The specified file will be uploaded.
  • Folder: The specified folder and its contents will be uploaded.
  • Attribute: The contents of the specified attribute will be uploaded.

When working with large objects, File is a better choice than Attribute as the data will be streamed directly from disk and not require that the object be stored entirely in memory on a feature.

ProjectWise will overwrite documents of the same name. For logical set items, the target document will be overwritten and reference document relationships will be retained. Flat set objects cannot be overwritten.

When wanting to upload content from a folder, it is better to upload as a folder instead of setting a fixed path and sending multiple features into the connector to upload as a file.

File to Upload

The file to be uploaded to ProjectWise if Upload is set to File.

Folder to Upload

The folder to be uploaded to ProjectWise if Upload is set to Folder.

Include Subfolders

Choose whether to upload subfolders of the Folder to Upload or not.

Attribute to Upload as File

The data to be uploaded, supplied from an attribute if Upload is set to Attribute.

ProjectWise Destination

Project

The project to upload the data to. If valid credentials have been provided as a web connection, you may browse to a location.

Upload with File Name

The name of the file created from the data supplied in Attribute to Upload as File. The name must include a filename extension (for example, .txt, .jpg, .doc).

Output Attributes

Attributes to Add

The selected attributes will be added to the output feature.

_instance_id

Instance ID of the file/folder that was uploaded.

_object_id

Object ID of the file/folder that was uploaded.

Editing Transformer Parameters

Transformer parameters can be set by directly entering values, using expressions, or referencing other elements in the workspace such as attribute values or user parameters. Various editors and context menus are available to assist. To see what is available, click beside the applicable parameter.

Defining Values

There are several ways to define a value for use in a Transformer. The simplest is to simply type in a value or string, which can include functions of various types such as attribute references, math and string functions, and workspace parameters.

Using the Text Editor

The Text Editor provides a convenient way to construct text strings (including regular expressions) from various data sources, such as attributes, parameters, and constants, where the result is used directly inside a parameter.

Text Editor

Using the Arithmetic Editor

The Arithmetic Editor provides a convenient way to construct math expressions from various data sources, such as attributes, parameters, and feature functions, where the result is used directly inside a parameter.

Arithmetic Editor

Conditional Values

Set values depending on one or more test conditions that either pass or fail.

Parameter Condition Definition Dialog

Content

Expressions and strings can include a number of functions, characters, parameters, and more.

When setting values - whether entered directly in a parameter or constructed using one of the editors - strings and expressions containing String, Math, Date/Time or FME Feature Functions will have those functions evaluated. Therefore, the names of these functions (in the form @<function_name>) should not be used as literal string values.

String Functions

These functions manipulate and format strings.

Special Characters

 A set of control characters is available in the Text Editor.

Math Functions

Math functions are available in both editors.
Date/Time Functions Date and time functions are available in the Text Editor.

Math Operators

These operators are available in the Arithmetic Editor.

FME Feature Functions

These return primarily feature-specific values.

FME Parameters

FME and workspace-specific parameters may be used.
Creating and Modifying User Parameters Create your own editable parameters.

Table Tools

Transformers with table-style parameters have additional tools for populating and manipulating values.

Row Reordering

Enabled once you have clicked on a row item. Choices include:

  • Add a row
  • Remove a row
  • Move current row up one
  • Move current row down one
  • Move current row to top
  • Move current row to bottom

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Enabled once you have clicked on a row item. Choices include:

  • Cut a row - delete and copy to clipboard
  • Copy a row to the clipboard
  • Paste a row from the clipboard

Cut, copy, and paste may be used within a transformer, or between transformers.

Filter

Start typing a string, and the matrix will only display rows matching those characters. Searches all columns. This only affects the display of attributes within the transformer - it does not alter which attributes are output.

Import

Import populates the table with a set of new attributes read from a dataset. Specific application varies between transformers.

Reset/Refresh

Generally resets the table to its initial state, and may provide additional options to remove invalid entries. Behavior varies between transformers.

Note: Not all tools are available in all transformers.

For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.

Reference

Processing Behavior

Feature-Based

Feature Holding

No
Dependencies Bentley ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, Bentley Web Services Gateway, Bentley WSG ProjectWise Plugin
Aliases ProjectWiseConnector
History Released FME 2018.0

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